Thread: "Tie your shoe and zip your pants!" (and related expressions)

By the way, I was talking with my sister recently about my nephew's difficulty in tying his shoes (he's five). Only his "church shoes" have шнурки -- all the others close with velcro, so he doesn't get much practice with shoelaces. (Velcro shoes were almost unheard of when my sister and I were that age, and we certainly didn't have any shoes with red LEDs that light up and flash with each step!)

Anyway, the conversation reminded me that I wasn't 100% sure about how to express some of these things in Russian.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

By the way, I was talking with my sister recently about my nephew's difficulty in tying his shoes (he's five). Only his "church shoes" have шнурки -- all the others close with velcro, so he doesn't get much practice with shoelaces. (Velcro shoes were almost unheard of when my sister and I were that age, and we certainly didn't have any shoes with red LEDs that light up and flash with each step!)

Википедия утверждает, что Velcro это "ворсистая молния, ворсовка, текстильная застежка, лента Velcro, лента-контакт, липучка, мампапа"...

Мампапа?!!

Я бы в формальном контексте использовал "застёжка Велкро", а в остальных случаях "липучка". Остальные варианты я никогда раньше не встречал.

Википедия утверждает, что Velcro это "ворсистая молния, ворсовка, текстильная застежка, лента Velcro, лента-контакт, липучка, мампапа"...

Мампапа?!!

Я бы в формальном контексте использовал "застёжка Велкро", а в остальных случаях "липучка". Остальные варианты я никогда раньше не встречал.

Пожалуй, я тоже никогда не слышал про Мампап в контексте одежды, а Velcro перевел бы с мягким знаком как "велькро" (но и без "ь" тоже правильно). Так или иначе, что такое "липучка" знают все, а про существование "велькро" догадывается, наверное, лишь один из тысячи.

"У меня две зимние куртки и два зимних пальто."

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Я бы тоже так сказал.

velcro is sometimes called репЕйник because it clings like agrimony, however липУчка is much more common

Hmm, I've never even heard of agrimony, though wikipedia says that it grows in North America. Supposedly velcro was inspired by the seeds of the burdock plant -- called лопух in Russian, according to wiki.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Hmm, I've never even heard of agrimony, though wikipedia says that it grows in North America. Supposedly velcro was inspired by the seeds of the burdock plant -- called лопух in Russian, according to wiki.

Лопух and репейник is one and the same plant. I took translation from a dictionary so it could be inaccurate. There's burdock as well.

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