Monday, October 13, 2008

RUSSIAN HUMOR

1. RUSSIAN HUMOR: Soup to nuts Wikipedia page on Russian jokes and humor. Usually takes the form of storytelling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_joke
2. Russian Mat: Mat: Wikipedia. (Russian: мат, матерщи́на, ма́терный язы́к) is a Russian patois language, based on the use of specific generally unprintable obscene words. Russian mat makes it possible to have a conversation (although not always insulting, but always emotional) using only obscene words, which is what sets Russian mat apart from the obsceneties of most languages. Russian mat is an indispensable attribute of any group consisting solely of males, only recently beginning to get into the females-only groups, and the practices of mat speaking in the mixed groups are to be reduced to the last twenty or thirty years. [1] . Use of Russian mat in a public place constitutes a form of disorderly conduct, punishable under article 20.1.1 of the Offences Code of Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_joke#Taboo_vocabulary
3. Russian cursing: An ebook of Russian curse words and how they are used in Mat.
http://www.russiancursing.com/
4. Russian Jokes site: List of jokes by stereotype, taboo words, situations.
http://www.russian-jokes.x-komputer.info/index.html