GE Question

On two or three occasions, when frustrated and peeved, Xenia spits out some epithet I can't suss out. It sounds like "blyatch" or some such. Anybody know what the hell she's saying?

I thought you spoke a little Russian.

Ask CJB or Klown, they should know.

Biatch!

Manhunter wrote:

I thought you spoke a little Russian.

I do, but damned if I can make out what she's saying. And sadly, Russian cuss words aren't my strength.

"Bulyatch," I believe, is the Russian equivalent of "dammit."

Xenia says "blyat" which literally translates into "whore" but is usually used in the same manner English-speakers would say "fuck!" (eg. if you watch some of YouTube's hilarious Russian car crash videos, the first word out of the driver's mouth when they crash is usually "blyat!")

Weird thing I noticed when it aired on TV years ago was that they actually muted her voice when she'd say that Russian curse word. I thought that was so odd for an English based TV network to do that.

I'm guessing they thought Xenia called Brozza a bitch, which is understandable.

CJB wrote:

Xenia says "blyat" which literally translates into "whore" but is usually used in the same manner English-speakers would say "fuck!" (eg. if you watch some of YouTube's hilarious Russian car crash videos, the first word out of the driver's mouth when they crash is usually "blyat!")

Ah. So Dame Judi didn't have the "honor" of dropping the series' first F-Bomb.



Blyat!

Perilagu Khan wrote:

CJB wrote:

Xenia says "blyat" which literally translates into "whore" but is usually used in the same manner English-speakers would say "fuck!" (eg. if you watch some of YouTube's hilarious Russian car crash videos, the first word out of the driver's mouth when they crash is usually "blyat!")

Ah. So Dame Judi didn't have the "honor" of dropping the series' first F-Bomb.



Blyat!

Strange thing is, I always thought she said "Biotch! or "Biatch!" and that the rest of the world copied her and started using that phrase "bee-otch" instead of "bitch", because I had never heard anybody use the expression "bee-otch" until I saw GOLDENEYE, and then it seemed like it was the cool new curse word. I've always assumed that the current use of the phrase "bee-otch" originated somehow, someway, with GOLDENEYE.

I'll give another example. I'd never heard the phrase "Wait for it" until SUPERMAN RETURNS, and then it seemed like everyone was copying Lex Luthor and saying "Wait for it" on news casts, interviews, you name it.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

CJB wrote:

Xenia says "blyat" which literally translates into "whore" but is usually used in the same manner English-speakers would say "fuck!" (eg. if you watch some of YouTube's hilarious Russian car crash videos, the first word out of the driver's mouth when they crash is usually "blyat!")

Ah. So Dame Judi didn't have the "honor" of dropping the series' first F-Bomb.



Blyat!

Strange thing is, I always thought she said "Biotch! or "Biatch!" and that the rest of the world copied her and started using that phrase "bee-otch" instead of "bitch", because I had never heard anybody use the expression "bee-otch" until I saw GOLDENEYE, and then it seemed like it was the cool new curse word. I've always assumed that the current use of the phrase "bee-otch" originated somehow, someway, with GOLDENEYE.

I'll give another example. I'd never heard the phrase "Wait for it" until SUPERMAN RETURNS, and then it seemed like everyone was copying Lex Luthor and saying "Wait for it" on news casts, interviews, you name it.

It has always sounded to me that there's definitely a "ch" at the end of whatever word it is she's bellowing. To me it sounds like "bliatch."

Famke's pronunciation wasn't the greatest.

What she lacks in Slavic linguistics, she makes up for with thigh strength.

"Blyarch"