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Stupid cat -- no cream for you tonight, just water!

P.S. I was trying to imitate a hyper-polite "bureaucrat-ese", but I guess I failed. :oops:

But if I understand correctly, the problem was...

gRomoZeka: Actually, um, well, er... of course I knew that, but в кабачках is exactly what I meant to say -- I thought everyone knew that in American speech, we use zucchinis to show irony!

For...

I would say -- as a native speaker of English, but not of Russian -- that хер is roughly equivalent to words like "wang" or "dong" -- it's not as strongly obscene as "c*ck", but at the same time,...

In some of the "official" Russian translations of the Harry Potter books, the names were transliterated as follows:

Hagrid --> Хагрид
Hogwarts --> Хогвартс

Harry --> Гарри
Hermione -->...

Okay, imagine that Marian the Librarian is cliff-diving into a lovely tropical lagoon -- she jumps off the cliff, and being a librarian, she's going "Sshhhhh!" the whole way down. Now imagine the...