Mat In Russian Language

This was formerly translated as fuck your mother but this was recently changed to i fuck ed your mother.

Mat in russian language. Mat is linguistic theatre verbal performance art. It exploits the russian language s flexible range of suffixes and prefixes and toys with phonetically similar words from the standard lexicon in order to generate anthropomorphic images. The lede says that the term mat comes from the phrase ёб твою мать. I don t speak russian and i m guessing that the editor who made this change does.

It s not something you will notice in press or books but if you are hanging out at a moscow or barnaul bar mat will be used in just about every sentence. Dostoyevsky claimed that a russian could. On monday putin signed legislation that has been floating around. It s deeply embedded in culture and language and many russian folks don t even realize they are using it putin most famously.

Now putin has decided to take on the russian language in particular its florid and flexible lexicon of profanity known as mat.