In Soviet Russia, internet spams YOU!

[primroseburrows]

I got a spam email with a subject that says, "Определение маркетинговой стратегии в периуд кризиса."

_scally, I need your mad Russian translation skillz (and by "mad Russian" I do not mean Ivan the Terrible). What is it saying?

If it's telling me how to have a bigger penis, I can't even do that in English.

Comments

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

Well, I see "marketing strategy" in there, so I'm going to guess it doesn't concern penises. I'm going to guess it's something like "effective marketing strategies during a time of economic crisis." But that is just a wild guess. Were you wanting to market something in Russia? :)

My Russian transliteration skills are few, but I can usually transliterate Bulgarian, which is also written in Cyrillic, though it's a little different. Anyway, it looks something like: Opredelenie marketingovoi strategii v periyl krizisa

[nyn17.livejournal.com]

Huh, Bulgarian, really? May I(being Bulgarian) ask how come? :)

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I know nothing about Bulgarian v. Russian as far as typing goes, but I have a friend who's Bulgarian and she says the way the alphabet is written is slightly different. She may have told me how, but I probably didn't understand what she meant because I don't speak or write either language.

[nyn17.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the alphabet's mostly the same, with a few additional letters in Russian and they're both Slavic languages, so they have a lot of similarities(that's mostly why I understood that Russian :P).
I was just curious why j_s_cavalcante knows how to transliterate Bulgarian of all languages.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Ah. That one I couldn't answer at all. ;)

I'm planning on learning Russian when life stops being chaotic, for no other reason than I love the sound of it and I've always wanted to learn a language with an alphabet other than my own. Oh, yeah, and to be able to read _scally's LJ posts. :)

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

You are? Zdravé! Totally cool. (I can't actually use Cyrillic characters without a bunch of codes, hee. Even if I remembered how to spell anything.)

Mind you, I don't speak Bulgarian, just remember a little bit from the distant past. :) It's really a lovely language and much, much nicer sounding (and easier to pronounce) than Russian. :)

The explanation is here, in the Eight Truths and Two Lies meme. It's item #3. If you read the rest, just note that there are non worksafe photos under the cut (some hyper-endowed, naked male dolls. Really. :) Also in the comments, more discussion of Bulgarian divas (so to speak) and some speculation as to how Bulgarian folk culture thrived when others in Eastern Europe were suppressed.

I am guessing RayK would tell me I'm a freak. :)

[linguisticator.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I can be of assistance (although you didn't ask me - not to worry, I won't take it personally!)

It is indeed about the (lit. determination but I think they mean here "attribute") of a marketing strategy lit. "in a period of crisis"

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Any and all assistance is welcome. :D I picked _scally because Russian is her first language, is all.

It is indeed about the (lit. determination but I think they mean here "attribute") of a marketing strategy lit. "in a period of crisis"

And they picked me to help, out of millions, imagine that! :)

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

Hee, I got pretty close for someone who doesn't speak more than a few phrases of Russian. :) I screwed up one of the letters, mistaking the D for an L, though. ;)

[nyn17.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah, it says "Determining a marketing strategy in the period of crisis" :P

Hi, I got an icon for you over at my lj :)

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Not just one, but THREE! Yay!

[nyn17.livejournal.com]

Heh, nah, it's the same icon with differently placed text because I can never decide these things in the end :P