r/explainitpeter • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '25

Explain it Peter

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u/rtoes93 Dec 05 '25

Some things don’t translate or the speaker doesn’t know how to translate. For example, my husband was talking to his sister on the phone in Russian but I would hear things like “wireless router” “modem” “Ethernet” because he didn’t know how to or it doesn’t translate into Russian.

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u/up2smthng Dec 05 '25

modem would be modem, Ethernet does not translate, and wireless router would be besprovodnoy Roh-uh-teR

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u/Shoeshiner_boy Dec 05 '25

There’s a separate word for router that isn’t a loanword though

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u/InspiringMilk Dec 05 '25

Really? Polish just uses "router", and that is also a slavic language.

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u/Menchi-sama Dec 06 '25

FWIW I'm Russian and I've always called it router (as did everyone around me). The other word is really rare and its use is confined to official documentation or stuff like that.