Thread: God's fish!

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

All that collective brainpower WASTED!

Now have a good laugh altogether, Vinnie! And don't kill yourself against the wall, just write more, author!

треска рьiба = Cod Fish (according to Barron's R-E/E-R Dictionary)

I propose the following use of "God's Fish": A general exclamation in place of a four letter word, and/or a silly/stupid mistake. A polite flame.

ie: "What in/the/in the God's Fish are you talking about Leof?" " What kind of God's Fish is that?" "He has God's Fish for a brain"

Discuss

Yes. Yes! Let it be as you said!

Originally Posted by capecoddah

треска рьiба = Cod Fish (according to Barron's R-E/E-R Dictionary

What happened to your 'ы' key?


And, since this topic doesn't want to die...

What is God's fish in Russian anyway?

"Бога рыба"?

Originally Posted by волк

Originally Posted by capecoddah

треска рьiба = Cod Fish (according to Barron's R-E/E-R Dictionary

What happened to your 'ы' key?


And, since this topic doesn't want to die...

What is God's fish in Russian anyway?

Looks Ukrainian.

But you can't just shove two nouns together like this in Russian.
You've looked up Cod, and then looked up Fish. This is Russian, not English.

Dictionaries are not beginners' friends.

Cod Fish really just means Cod which is треска
God's Fish would be рыба Бога or, lol, Богина рыба

"Божья рыба"

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Богина рыба

I like Богина рыба much more!
But yes it should be Божья рыба or Божья рыбина or Божья рыбка or Божья рыбёшка.

Божья рыба! Во что вы превратили этот топик?

Рыба Божья! Kакая погода!! Весна на улице!
God's fish! What a weather!! The Spring is on the street!

TATY, I used two words to represent the term "Cod fish", I know that Cod refers to a fish, just exagerating the point. If I talked to someone on the docks saying they were going out for 'cod-fish, flounder-fish or tuna-fish', I'd tell them to file a float plan because they probably don't know what the God's Fish they were doing. I'd also like to see what they came back with... Probably a God's Fish or a boat filled with the limit of every species.

A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Minister go fishing one day........



Jesus Fish was all I could find.

What I think... It seems there's a big myth has born which became the part of the MR Forum. This will be the first brick in the base of our mythology and a feature. This is called Leof's God's Fish!!

Wherever you are, whatever your do it's the God's Fish!! treading on your heals, penetrating your mind, and trying to make you insert itself in any phrase...

Originally Posted by capecoddah

TATY, I used two words to represent the term "Cod fish", I know that Cod refers to a fish, just exagerating the point. If I talked to someone on the docks saying they were going out for 'cod-fish, flounder-fish or tuna-fish', I'd tell them to file a float plan because they probably don't know what the God's Fish they were doing. I'd also like to see what they came back with... Probably a God's Fish or a boat filled with the limit of every species.

A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Minister go fishing one day........



Jesus Fish was all I could find.

No, I mean. In Russian you cannot grammatically stick two nouns together like you did. In Cod Fish, Cod functions as an adjective, but in English it doesn't make any different because an adjective looks like a noun anywa. In Russian though, and adjective looks different to a know.

You can't stick an 'i' and a soft sign together either and make it ы, as far as I'm aware.

Wherever you are, whatever your do it's the God's Fish!! treading on your heals, penetrating your mind, and trying to make you insert itself in any phrase...

Ridiculous. What the God's Fish are you talking about...

God's fish actually is slang for a certain part of a woman's anatomy.

Nah, the slang word for her long eyelashes is not God's fish!

You can't stick an 'i' and a soft sign together either and make it ы, as far as I'm aware.

the ы key was in the bathroom at the time I needed it.

I used the 2 words INTENTIONALLY INCORRECLTLY, like saying a goldfish-fish. I had hashed it out in a chat previously, the woman thinks we have TOO much time on our hands. She lives too far from the ocean to know seafood very well. What's the translation for 'scrod'?

Besides, we're (only?) talking about God's Fish here Lighten up!

Originally Posted by TATY

No, I mean. In Russian you cannot grammatically stick two nouns together like you did. In Cod Fish, Cod functions as an adjective, but in English it doesn't make any different because an adjective looks like a noun anywa. In Russian though, and adjective looks different to a know.

well this is true and not.
The thing is that some of Russian names of fishes HAS two nouns as well!
they are written with this >-< in the middle like:

рыба-меч - or more rare меч-рыба - sword-fish
рыба-пила - saw-fish
рыба-молот - hammer-fish
all was named by the shape of their heads
there are many others named similar
and рыба-кит - "whale-fish" - is from Russian folklore

so треска рыба can be used in stylised language - if you wish to make your language sound 'legendary' like in fairytail.

Let's call God's fish a God's fish! And seriously, I praise the Scott David Hume for being the sourse of my missread and I'll visit his grave in Edinburgh and honour his memory. I love his books.

He will be God's-fishy happy if you will!