Day 41: Grandpa's Vologda Words
In a village near Vologda during the summer holidays, a thirteen-year-old boy from Moscow sits down to breakfast with his grandfather.
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Dialogue
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Внучок, слезай с голбца да садись за стол, шаньги стынут. Баские нынче у бабки вышли.
Come down off the golbets, lad, and sit at the table, the shangi are going cold. Grandma's made them real basky today.
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B
Дед, я понял только «садись за стол». С чего слезать и что за шаньги?
Grandpa, all I understood was 'sit at the table'. Come down off what, and what are shangi?
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Голбцом у нас зовут приступку у печки, на которой ты сидишь. А шаньги вон, на блюде, ешь давай.
Golbets is what we call the step by the stove that you're sitting on. And the shangi are over there on the plate, go on, eat.
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B
А, это как ватрушки, только с картошкой! Вкусно. А «баские» значит вкусные?
Oh, they're like cheese buns, only with potato! Tasty. So 'basky' means tasty?
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«Баские» значит красивые, пригожие. Вот и деревня наша раньше баская была, а теперь все в город подались.
'Basky' means pretty, handsome. Our village used to be basky too, and now everyone has gone off to the city.
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B
Дед, а ты специально так говоришь? В Москве так вообще никто не разговаривает.
Grandpa, do you talk like that on purpose? Nobody in Moscow talks like that at all.
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В Москве и баять-то некогда, все бегом. А это наш говор, вологодский, на нём ещё мой дед баял.
In Moscow nobody has time to bayat, they're always rushing. This is our local speech, the Vologda kind, my own grandad spoke it.
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B
«Баять» значит говорить? Прикольно, в классе расскажу, у нас таких словечек никто не знает.
So 'bayat' means to talk? Cool, I'll tell my class, nobody there knows words like that.
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А ты мне теперь своё растолкуй. Вчера по телефону кричал: «Это кринж, я с него ору». Кто на кого орёт?
Now you explain your words to me. Yesterday on the phone you were shouting: 'That's cringe, I'm screaming.' Who's screaming at whom?
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B
«Ору» значит смеюсь до упаду, а «кринж» говорят, когда за кого-то стыдно. Ну, типа... неловко.
'Screaming' means laughing my head off, and you say 'cringe' when you feel embarrassed for someone. Like... awkward.
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Эва как! По мне, ваши словечки ничуть не баще наших. Давай так: я тебе про голбец, а ты мне про кринж.
Well, I never! If you ask me, your little words are no more basky than ours. Let's make a deal: I teach you golbets, and you teach me cringe.
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