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As a Russian, can confirm this article is quite accurate - my family only ever celebrates New Years, it's the same as Christmas is usually in the West, and Ded
by andreyk 7y ago
As a Russian, can confirm this article is quite accurate - my family only ever celebrates New Years, it's the same as Christmas is usually in the West, and Ded Moroz is totally a thing.
- dmix 7y agoHow do you pronounce Ded Moroz in an anglophone way? I noticed you used “Dez” instead of Ded.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- firstbabylonian 7y agoThat’s a typo. The pronunciation is close to “dee-yet mah-ross”
- dang 7y agoBelated, but we fixed the typo above.
- izacus 7y agoYep, we called him "Dedek Mraz" in the balkans which also literaly translates into Grandfather Frost. (Although we did celebrate christmas since the anti-religion clampdown wasn't that aggressive in Yugoslavia.)
- xmars 7y agoMraz, sounds like мразь, not a very good word :))
- cema 7y agoClose languages often sound funny to reach other.
- pandaman 7y agoThe word literally means "something that causes chills" so it's not that different from slavic "mraz". It just had been used exclusively in a figurative meaning to describe something that is so disgusting that it makes one shake.
- f2f 7y ago"дядо мраз" in bulgaria. we also celebrated xmas with a quiet family vegetarian dinner, not having such a massive clampdown on religion, and "mraz" delivered presents on new year's. after 1989 things came back to normality and he's now called "дядо коледа". new year's is just a drinking holiday :)
- throwlaplace 7y agohttps://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=ru&tl=en&text=%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B4%20%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7 https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=ru&t... click the speaker
- kohtatsu 7y agoNo thanks.
- cema 7y agoJoke is, it is pronounced "dead morose". Close but not quite (the first word is more like "dzed").
- cperciva 7y agoBut do you celebrate New New Year's or Old New Year's?
- DenisM 7y agoBoth, naturally.