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Russian Tongue Twisters

January 3, 2010

The Russian word for tongue twisters is СKOРОГОВОРКИ (скоро=быстро + говор-ить).
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ru.htm#O76
My picks from the word of the year collection are
ВАМПЬЮТЕР – компьютер + вампир
БРЕХЛАМА – брехать – to tell lies, хлам – rubbish, реклама – advertising, commercial
МЕДВЕПУТИЯ – Медведев + Путин, a new name of the country otherwise known as Russia
New Year’s Greetings from Putin and Medvedev
НЕХОТЬ – не хотеть, a noun with a negative connotation indicating the absence of desire to do anything at all
More about Russian neologisms at

http://miresperanto.narod.ru/o_russkom_jazyke/dar_slova.htm