Thread: секс, и другие слова...

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Nice people did not "занимались сексом", they "занимались любовью". )))

Was it said by the person who declared "There's no sex in USSR"? =))

Originally Posted by Eric C.

Was it said by the person who declared "There's no sex in USSR"? =))

Yes, it was the general attitude at the time. "Sex" was something dissolute, and even if you did IT it was not something to boast about in decent compnay.
BTW, the real quote was "There's no sex in USSR... on TV" as you probably know.

Also as for indeclinable adjectives, I just thought of a couple of other ones... рок- as in рок-музыка, and онлайн.

Hmm.."Рок-" is not an adjective. I'm not sure what it is. "Онлайн" is often used as an adverb, and it can be used as an adjective too.. Though some people say "онлайновый" in this case.
It seems poor Russian language has no idea what to do with all these weird words that assault it in the recent years. many Russians are confused too. )

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Yes, it was the general attitude at the time. "Sex" was something dissolute, and even if you did IT it was not something to boast about in decent compnay.
BTW, the real quote was "There's no sex in USSR... on TV" as you probably know.

Even if you did... OMG, I hope there's no clone attack from ex-USSR going to take place? =)))

BTW, do you know why sex is better than love? One has to make love while s/he can just have sex.

"Секси" is a sheer calque from English. As you said it, Demonic_Duck, we kind of stole it from you))) Just took the word 'sexy' and it became 'секси'. Now, this word is used mostly by girls in school)), maybe sometimes by boys. I have never used this word in my life))).
"Сексуальный" is a neutral variant. This is proper in colloquial speech (e.g. она сексуальная, он сексуальный), and this could also be used in scientific context (например, беспорядочная сексуальная жизнь).
"Сексапильный" is more common than 'секси' and it's kind of making you sound more proper and serious, for 'секси' sounds very much a slang word (maybe from cheap tabloids).
To have a good command of Russian, of course, you will need to know all these words.
The word «сексапильность» does exist.
Technically, we don't have indeclinable adjectives. If it's indeclinable it becomes something other than adjective.
Рок-музыка is a compound word. Something like your 'airplane'. We do hyphenate all such words however, i.e. 'рок музыка' without hypen would be incorrect in Russian. So рок- is not an adjective here.
Онлайн is a calque from English again. We do have some problems as to how to use it, as it's kind of a 'suckiling' yet borrowed from English, and some people tend to use it with preposition which sounds Russian-like as in "я в онлайне", some say without preposition "встретимся онлайн". So the part of speech for онлайн is not as clear here. I think the proper way would be to leave it English as in 'online-конференция' or 'online-совещание'.

Originally Posted by alexsms

Онлайн is a calque from English again. We do have some problems as to how to use it, as it's kind of a 'suckiling' yet borrowed from English, and some people tend to use it with preposition which sounds Russian-like as in "я в онлайне", some say without preposition "встретимся онлайн". So the part of speech for онлайн is not as clear here. I think the proper way would be to leave it English as in 'online-конференция' or 'online-совещание'.

Hmm... I am somewhat derailing my own topic here (although at least the title does say «и другие слова»), but does «в сети» mean the same as «в онлайне»? I think I prefer the former... it makes me think of being so lazy that you are online on your laptop sitting on the settee, and you sit still for so long that the settee eats you up (you are in the settee).

I love making up stupid stories like this, lol.

Also thanks for the lists of words it-ogo and gRomoZeka. I already knew about «иметь», «е**ть» and «спать с» which were mentioned earlier, but I didn't know any of those other ones

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

Hmm... I am somewhat derailing my own topic here (although at least the title does say «и другие слова»), but does «в сети» mean the same as «в онлайне»?

i just heard some people say "Ты в онлайне?" in quick conversations, but it's very, very colloquial, it's kind of accommodating the word to Russian. "Ты в интернете" is the most common way. "в сети" is the same, but i think "в интернете" is mostly used.