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You spell it like that? I’ve always spelled it "aha", like in Serbian.

If the latter is made from cooked fruit, "compote" might be appropriate. No, saft has nothing to do with fruit! :D Compote is alright, but saft is what schnitzel or some other type of meat is prepared with. In Serbian, coca-cola is a kind of juice? Well, juice in Serbian is actually the orange or g...

That's odd about juice and saft being different things. For me it’s odd to hear that juice and saft are not different in English. In Serbian, juice is the refreshing drink made of some sort of fruit or something similar (e.g. orange juice, coca-cola, apple juice etc.) and saft is sauce that is cons...

Maknas wrote:Much of it is just anti-Moscow propaganda.

Yes, I know. I read it. Anyway, the Siberian Wikipedia is closed now.

One can be a Russian, be aware of the Standard phonology, and still ignore it and speak with okan'e... I assume with the growing influence of the Standard language, less people are doing that today, but I'm certain that there still are quite a lot of Russians who speak that way. Which reminds me of...

Serbian: Gore gore gore gore nego dole.

English: Up there forests do burn better than down there.

hwhatting wrote:And I'm certain that Maknas uses transliteration.

Of course, I'm the one who got confused.

I was actually referring to the standard language. Standard Russian is mostly based on the Moscow dialect.

Oh, may be possible. Silly me!

Can we finally hear from Maknas if he simply omitted the vowel reduction or does he really pronounce the unaccented o's and e's and other unaccented vowels not reduced?

Then he's probably not from Moscow I'd guess. In Saint Petersburg I think they pronounce ch in конечно and что, but in Moscow certainly sh. And the vowel reduction - hey, I don't believe there are Russians who don't speak so! :o In that case, they are very, very little aware of the standard Russian ...

Maknas wrote:Конечно (Konechno) [...] что (chto)

No, in 'конечно' and 'что', the letter ч is actually pronounced as 'sh' not 'ch' as usual: /kăneshnă/ and /shto/ (also have in mind the vowel reduction - unaccented o's are pronounced as ă or schwa).