Превед!

All I know is that '??????' is Russian for 'Hello', and this seems to be a derivation of some sort. So you have crazy Russian bear that says 'Hello!' Who comes up with this shit anyway?

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

"Hi!" (informal). pa angliskii, you say more like "preevyet," I think, accent more on the second syllable.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

But it's not "preevyet" -- the spelling's different.

I think PREVED = Russian "HI DERE," AOL speak, etc. some of the other spelling up there is weirdly phonetic, too.

― xtof, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

also maybe "preved" to rhyme with "medved," russian for bear???

― xtof, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link

he is the medved who says preved!

― permanent revolution (cis), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link

http://babruisk.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/preved2.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

it's first and foremost, illiterate nonsense, including the rest of the words. either by someone who claims to know russian or by someone who is as illiterate as any average american.

― calvinist monk, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

that, or the Russian equivalent of AOL speak

― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm pretty sure it's purposely illiterate nonesense, monk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaff

― xtof, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

John Lurie painted the bear?!?!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 23 March 2006 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.ljplus.ru/img/v/i/victor_glamour/bm.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

HI DERE

Right, 'preved' is distorted 'privet'=hi (rather than hallo). There is kind of fashion in Russia right now -- people invent funny distorted versions of Russian words. It began with just mocking bad grammar writing but soon transformed to more sophisticated distortions -- so the 'privet' sounds like 'prevet' but never like 'preveD'.
Valentin Alen (Moscow)

― Dave AKA Dave (dave225.3), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link

http://stuff.fskteam.net/wow.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

http://blackzarak.co.uk/adi/upload/upload_files/hidere.jpg

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Preved Medved

― preved (preved), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i hope this blotter acid really exists

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― zappi (joni), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

This was the perfect Friday afternoon thread to make me happy. Thanks!

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 April 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

ПРЕВЕД!=LOL...I'am come. ^_^ undersand?

― Цинник, Monday, 3 April 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I'am live in Russia,and i never heard about "Preved".

― Ru., Monday, 3 April 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

http://anub.ru/uploads4/1144078493_anub_ru_motorama_preved_thumb.jpg

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

http://scoopsnoodle.com/333.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Preved = Privet in new russian slang. We use 'd' to express more emotion phonetically. If it was 't' it wouldnt sound that rough. Originally it was a picture of two people making love in the forest and the bear walking out from nowhere. Then, someone put a greeting on the picture, since its bear it speaks in a rougher way than a human being.

― alexey russian, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't get it, is everything supposed to be mispelled on purpose? Most of the Russian words here are spelled incorrectly, so ... is that on purpose or not?!
And it's "Privet" not "Preved".
-Kitty

― Kitty, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://scoopsnoodle.com/supriso.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

http://scoopsnoodle.com/supriso.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

A po mojemu vsia eta prevedcina, kak i drebeden s temi karikaturami na musulmanskogo proroka, est ne chto inoje, kak besposchadnaja informacionnaja vojna, v kotoruju
kstati gosdep USA vlozhil sestiznachnuju summy. Ocen tolkovo produmannaja specialistami iz sfer marketinga, psichologiji, obschestvovedenija i kultury! Hot nemnogo
imejuschij delo s perecislennymi sferami i interesujuschijsia politiceskoj i socialnoj situacijei v strane celovek bez osobogo truda zametit celenapravlennost
prodvizhenija "brenda" Preved (still not copyrighted?!?). Poprostu govoria - eto - aisberg, vidimaja storona kotorogo vygliadit kak zaminirovannaja igruska,
podbroshennaja Vaffen-SS detiskam. Nerealno? Ocen daze! Nikogda v strane ne bylo takogo beskulturija i demoralizaciji celoveka, cennostej, principov - a ved
bez nih, ty i v mnogotysiachnoj tolpe britogolovyh prevedov budesh ne vojin, zascitnik Otecestva, a shut gorohovyj...

― A Medvezata-to s Aliaski?, Monday, 10 April 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

-- A Medvezata-to s Aliaski? (nature_against_politic...), April 11th, 2006. (later)

qft

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

my russian roommate confirms the john lurie authorship of the bear and he promises to bring more info when come back

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

(translation: "in my opinion all of this preved stuff, just like the nonsense with the mohammed cartoons is nothing less than a relentless information war in which, by the way, the US State Department has invested a six-figure sum. One very cleverly thought-out by specialists in marketing, psychology, social sciences and culture!..." etc)

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

do they not have deliberate spelling errors in other languages or something

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I'm confused, why are people going "omg thats not how you spell it". I mean neither is teh or joeks or whatever but we know what we mean.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

A po mojemu vsia eta prevedcina, kak i drebeden s temi karikaturami na musulmanskogo proroka, est ne chto inoje, kak besposchadnaja informacionnaja vojna, v kotoruju

Over-reacting a bit, are we?

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 6 May 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

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― StanM (StanM), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

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― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 15 July 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

― James Mitchell, Saturday, 21 February 2009 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link

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