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Ukrainian word of the year 2022

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Enzfj2
Ukraine

Ukrainian word of the year 2022

Post by Enzfj2 »

Бавовна

Literally cotton, from German Baumwolle or Polish bawełna.
Compare wool-Wolle-wełna-вовна.
But why?
It has been for a few years that Russian Newspeak uses mandatory euphemisms to mention undesirable events or processes. One of them is хлопо́кa clap instead of explosion (notice the accent).
It has been also widely known that numerous Russian trolls try to inject their narratives into Ukrainian forums, blogs and social medias, and to pretend being Ukrainians use Google translate, often with quite ridiculous outcome.
This year, when something unexpected happened to Russian military objects far behind the frontline, they used the word хлопо́к, but, supplied to Google translate without the stress mark (which is, btw, not easy to put in Cyrillic), it was treated by default as хло́пок, i.e. cotton, so it became бавовна.
The word immediately became a nationwide mem, especially thank to the numerous following reasons to use it.

Olav
Norway

Re: Ukrainian word of the year 2022

Post by Olav »

That's funny.
The norwegian word of 2022 is 'krympflasjon'.
'Krymp' = shrink so it literally means 'shrinkflation' i.e. you pay the same or more for smaller packages.

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ultimatequestion

Re: Ukrainian word of the year 2022

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баво́вна
it's not funny

Last edited by ultimatequestion on Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:27 am, edited 2 times in total.

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LICA98
Finland

Re: Ukrainian word of the year 2022

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ultimatequestion wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:24 am

баво́вна
it's not funny

yes it is :lol:

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ultimatequestion

Re: Ukrainian word of the year 2022

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LICA98 wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:50 am
ultimatequestion wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:24 am

баво́вна
it's not funny

yes it is :lol:

you are strange :lol:

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OlwenLouise

Re: Ukrainian word of the year 2022

Post by OlwenLouise »

I heard there is also a playful but naughty little Ukrainian creature called the Бавовнятко - Baby Cotton or Cotton Cutie. She looks like she's made of the same special cotton and is said to set fire to her enemy's military places at night. You can google her.

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Enzfj2
Ukraine

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