Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:28:34 12/16/05
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On December 16, 2005 at 20:21:57, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>On December 16, 2005 at 20:17:01, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On December 16, 2005 at 20:09:21, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>>
>>>On December 16, 2005 at 20:07:50, Albert Silver wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 16, 2005 at 19:54:50, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 16, 2005 at 19:01:48, Graham Banks wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Rybka means "little fish"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards, Graham.
>>>>>
>>>>>Uh, I think it is a big fish just the same!
>>>>>
>>>>>I see on the online dictionary it's a "fishlet" from the Czech.
>>>>>
>>>>>Fishlet is undefined in the www.m-w.com for English...
>>>>>
>>>>>Stuart
>>>>
>>>>Well, in Russian it means little fish. Fishlet sounds like some Czech trying to
>>>>get fancy in his translations... :-)
>>>>
>>>>It is pronounced (roll the R in the front with the tongue): Roobka.
>>>
>>>So it is a Russian word? Babelfish didn't know about it with the Rybka spelling
>>>as Russian.
>>
>>Did you spell it with the Cyrilic alphabet?
>>
>
>No but I thought about that. My keyboard isn't up to it. :-)
Well, don't worry about it. I only know this because a Russian friend told me,
and I am familiar with the Cyrilic alphabet, hence pronouncing the Y like "oo".
I tried spelling it myself into a translator
(http://freetranslation.paralink.com/) and came up with Cabin.... :-)
Albert
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