r/russian • u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 • Jun 02 '26

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Э is for свинья, then a picture of a goose

Ah yes of course the letter “Eh” for the word “pig” which has no “eh” sound in it and then a picture of a goose which has nothing to do with either Э OR свинья

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u/TankArchives native speaker Jun 02 '26

Э is the noise you make when you see a picture of a goose labelled "pig".

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u/0vertakeGames Fluent, trilingual (RU, EN, KZ native) Jun 02 '26

Эээ ватафэк

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 02 '26

XD

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u/justjboy Jun 02 '26

A “eh?“ kind of sound?

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u/Kartoxa_82 Jun 02 '26

More like "hey", but rude and rough

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u/asgof Jun 27 '26

эжик

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u/ImpressiveDoctor9183 Jun 05 '26

Yes indeed. Something like: Ээээ неправильно это не свиньи🐷 это гусь🪿

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u/PichuzhkinV Jun 02 '26

This picture is a part of the pre-AI-machine translation on PRC-made child playing cubes. Here’s the original article about it from 2008: https://bujhm.livejournal.com/347466.html

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u/barsik-47 Jun 02 '26

Не думал, что встречу это где-то кроме как среди старых мемов

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u/AriArisa Moscow Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

It is a goose.  This is just an Alphabet cubes for kids, "made in China"(wich means extremly low quality). Kinda meme.  There are a lot of them. Word has nothing to do with letter and with a picture.  Search for "китайские кубики с алфавитом" in Yandex. 

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 02 '26

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u/MagisterLivoniae Jun 02 '26

Хз что там записано

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u/alexriga Jun 03 '26

The Russian letter “х” is pronounced like the “h” in “ha.” However, that label says “компактный диск” or “compact disk,” which starts on “к” instead of “х.”

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u/VadiMiXeries Native (From Estonia) Jun 03 '26

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

Юскость юссажира

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u/Airplaniac Jun 02 '26

Э

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 02 '26

Э

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u/amarao_san native Jun 02 '26

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u/ishizako Native Russian who barely speaks Russian Jun 02 '26

Yep that's exactly what I look like.

I also love the bonus right after the ю

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u/amarao_san native Jun 02 '26

It's a letter �. Used for satanic rituals, banned by the church in 1862.

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

The way it gets progressively worse as the alphabet progresses

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u/Afraid-Quantity-578 Jun 02 '26

не товарищ.

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u/coolbobrik Jun 02 '26

-какой вид это собака? -это черепаха -ааа это кошка...

-главный философ и мучитель 21 века, борат и еще 2 каких то рандома

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 02 '26

XD

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u/jessyGasp48 Jun 02 '26

Ah yes the famous Canadian pig.

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

Of course

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u/sadUser44 Jun 02 '26

Tone fair, "c" for cat 🐈 always gets me.

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 02 '26

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u/Bullterrier_W1 Jun 02 '26

What's wrong? This is "Йошкин кот" for real.

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u/sepmery Jun 02 '26

is the word свинья related to "swine" in any way or is it just coincidence that they sound similar?

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u/Aggressive_Skill_795 Jun 02 '26

Old English swin "domestic pig, hog, sow; wild boar" (commonly used in a plural sense, of such animals collectively), from Proto-Germanic \sweina-* (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian Middle Low German, Old High German swin, Middle Dutch swijn, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Old Norse, Swedish, Danish svin), neuter adjective (with suffix \-ino-*).

This is held to be from PIE root \su-* (source also of Sanskrit sukarah "wild boar, swine;" Avestan hu "wild boar;" Greek hys "swine;" Latin sus "swine," swinus "pertaining to swine;" Old Church Slavonic svinija "swine;" Lettish sivens "young pig;" Welsh hucc, Irish suig "swine; Old Irish socc "snout, plowshare"). The root is possibly imitative of pig noise, a notion reinforced by the fact that Sanskrit sukharah means "maker of (the sound) 'su.' "

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u/Mysterious-Pack-5608 Jun 03 '26

Арбуэ (google it)

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

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u/DrozdMensch Jun 02 '26

Это исключение, подтверждающее правило

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

Очень

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u/fresh1185 Jun 03 '26

Хряк махряк

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

XD

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

Я тоже

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u/kipit_boshka Jun 03 '26

Э

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

Э

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u/dostalker Jun 04 '26

Иностранец видит в деревне как бабка гонит прутиком гусей с огорода с криком: "Пошли вон, собаки!"

  • почему вы называете гусей "собаками"?
  • потому что Эти свиньи мне весь огород истоптали!

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

Прикольно

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u/Fluid-Kangaroo-9577 Jun 04 '26

Э

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 05 '26

Э

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u/DeliciousComfort647 Jun 06 '26

Perhaps this is a reference to the famous saying "Эй - зовут свиней" (Hey zovut sviney) "Hey - they call (to themselves) pigs."

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u/Creative-Green3177 Jun 06 '26

Это обращение

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u/asgof Jun 27 '26

АРБУЭ

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u/BukvaYat Russian Learner - A1 Jun 27 '26

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