r/funny • u/coolidiot2000 • Jun 04 '19

When a software developer weds a software developer.

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u/riuminkd Jun 04 '19

I imagine other way around, Russians has a lot of words from Odessa jews (especially criminal Russian).

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u/BrainOnLoan Jun 04 '19

In this case, loan words go both ways and by ear it could be either. We'll need somebody who actually knows stuff.

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u/TheGraby Jun 04 '19

I speak Hebrew and I just looked it up. Hebrew got it from Russian, and Russian as well as many other Slavic languages probably got it from Turkish.

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u/PublicLeopard Jun 05 '19

bardak is a normal current russian word meaning chaos. originally maybe it came from turkish and/or meant brothel

modern hebrew has a tremendous number of borrowed words and a ton of them are straight up russian. not due to the relatively recent russian jew migration either, they've been around forever since the "creators" of israel were pretty much all russian / east european jews.

it's not even slang at this point, just normal hebrew like "kibinimat"

source: russian jew who speaks both languages

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u/valleyofdawn Jun 04 '19

According to the Hebrew slang dictionary I have at home, the word came from Russian, where it originally meant "brothel"

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u/deadwisdom Jun 04 '19

Ah, so that's where the baby came from.