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Almost the same goes for the word Restaurant. Everywhere in the world it's almost the same - except in Russia it is pectopah! :)
by gerhardi 9y ago
Almost the same goes for the word Restaurant. Everywhere in the world it's almost the same - except in Russia it is pectopah! :)
- DoreenMichele 9y agoFor those who can't read any Russian, or never read that short story where this is the punchline essentially, pectopah is pronounced restoran. It only drops the T, basically.
- ivanhoe 9y agoIt should be really written in upper case, as PECTOPAH, to match the cyrillic letters better :)
- r3bl 9y ago> For those who can't read any Russian That's Cyrillic alphabet, not Russian. Cyrillic is used in other languages as well. I was born in Serbia (which also uses Cyrillic) so I understood the punchline, even though I would hardly say I "read any Russian". It's more of a south and east Slavic thing than it is a Russian thing.
- bzbarsky 9y agoThe reason it drops the T is that the word came to Russian from French (as did so many other words). And the French word "restaurant" is pronounced with a silent 't' at the end, in the typical French way. So the cyrillic rendering of that sound ends up without a 'т' on the end.
- milansm 9y agoWhich is pronounced basically the same. Only the 't' at the end is dropped. Same goes for other Slavic languages.
- akkat 9y agoIn Hebrew it is completely different מסעדה or mis'adah
- tombh 9y agoJust to be nitpicky, the Cyrillic is ресторан, so it's pronounced something like; "restoran".
- gerhardi 9y agoYeah, thats the pun - sorry for not being clear with my intention! Same idea applies for many words or names where the cyrillic characters have close resemblance with some other latin characters ("Hatawa is a popular russian/slavic girl's name" - of course properly it should be translittered as Natasha...)
- emptyfile 9y agoIt's also "restoran" in pretty much every Slavic language AFAIK.