Thread: If you're visiting "Meerkovo", please drive carefully, and beware of Google Translate

Well either way at least it's a recognisable and readable Russian word. Normally they just seem to pick out the most foreign-looking letters and string them together. Like in The Wire YouTube - The Wire Season Two Titles (Tom Waits)



I've always wondered though, is the s in simples supposed to be a словоерс, like "simple-s"??

Originally Posted by Paperplane

Well either way at least it's a recognisable and readable Russian word. Normally they just seem to pick out the most foreign-looking letters and string them together. Like in The Wire [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipaV4k2n__I"]YouTube - The

Yeah, i remember same thing in 'Bourne identity' when the spy had a lot of passports, and there was a Russian passport among them with string of letters , something like ШЩПР for the name Foma. The choice of name Foma was also very strange , as this name was popular in Russia maybe in 17th or 18th century, today the chance that you will meet this name in Russia is 0,001 %, strange that a spy should have such a name.