KOHUEPT Konfusion...
UFO_Charlie
pronounces it much the same way ("KO-HEPT"). The thing is, the writing on
the album looks Russian to me, and I was wondering:
1) Isn't that a Russian word on the album cover?
2) How is the phrase on the album that looks like "KOHUEPT" to Americans
really pronounced?
3) Does it mean anything significant?
Spasibo!
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Bill Diamond
alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:38:43 -0400 that ...
>Everyone refers to Billy Joel's Russian live album as "Kohuept," and
>pronounces it much the same way ("KO-HEPT"). The thing is, the writing on
>the album looks Russian to me, and I was wondering:
>
>1) Isn't that a Russian word on the album cover?
>2) How is the phrase on the album that looks like "KOHUEPT" to Americans
>really pronounced?
>3) Does it mean anything significant?
>
>Spasibo!
It's pronounced CONCERT
Bill
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StarChaser_Tyger
<D...@thernf.combobulate.com>,
>Everyone refers to Billy Joel's Russian live album as "Kohuept," and
>pronounces it much the same way ("KO-HEPT"). The thing is, the writing on
>the album looks Russian to me, and I was wondering:
>
>1) Isn't that a Russian word on the album cover?
>2) How is the phrase on the album that looks like "KOHUEPT" to Americans
>really pronounced?
>3) Does it mean anything significant?
According to
http://www.cardz.net/cyber_monkey/bj/ ,
(KOHUEPT" is the Russian word for "Concert."
It is pronounced roughly like the English
version of the word (approximately "cone-tsyert").
</QUOTE>
Dunno how true it is, and couldn't read one of the letters on the
picture of the cover well enough to lob it into Babelfish, so you
might ask to borrow some of Kay's salt, a grain or two.
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>
> Everyone refers to Billy Joel's Russian live album as "Kohuept," and
> pronounces it much the same way ("KO-HEPT"). The thing is, the writing on
> the album looks Russian to me, and I was wondering:
>
> 1) Isn't that a Russian word on the album cover?
Sounds like it.
> 2) How is the phrase on the album that looks like "KOHUEPT" to Americans
> really pronounced?
Concert. KOH-UEPT = Kon-curt.
Cyrillic is based on the Greek alphabet with several additional Slavic characters.
Read as if it were Greek, should be clearer.
> 3) Does it mean anything significant?
Cyrillic type is graphically interesting, attention-getting. Makes a good
advertising tool.
Bob Moissonnier
> Good old "UFO_Charlie" <D...@thernf.combobulate.com> wrote in
> alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:38:43 -0400 that ...
> >Everyone refers to Billy Joel's Russian live album as "Kohuept," and
> >pronounces it much the same way ("KO-HEPT"). The thing is, the writing on
> >the album looks Russian to me, and I was wondering:
> >
> >1) Isn't that a Russian word on the album cover?
> >2) How is the phrase on the album that looks like "KOHUEPT" to Americans
> >really pronounced?
> >3) Does it mean anything significant?
> >
> >Spasibo!
>
>
> It's pronounced CONCERT
It's spelled "concert," but it's pronounced "throat warbler mangrove."
Pope Bob (the yachting type)
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Boron Elgar
<bi...@nospambilldiamond.com> wrote:
>Good old "UFO_Charlie" <D...@thernf.combobulate.com> wrote in
>alt.fan.cecil-adams back on Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:38:43 -0400 that ...
>>Everyone refers to Billy Joel's Russian live album as "Kohuept," and
>>pronounces it much the same way ("KO-HEPT"). The thing is, the writing on
>>the album looks Russian to me, and I was wondering:
>>
>>1) Isn't that a Russian word on the album cover?
>>2) How is the phrase on the album that looks like "KOHUEPT" to Americans
>>really pronounced?
>>3) Does it mean anything significant?
>>
>>Spasibo!
>
>
>It's pronounced CONCERT
>
Ever been to a PECTOPAH?
Boron
Mark Brader
> > really pronounced?
>
> Concert. KOH-UEPT = Kon-curt.
More like "Kon-tsyairt". K-O-H-E-P-T correspond to English K-O-N-YE-R-T;
the letter that looks like a squared-off U with a tail is TS, as in "tsar".
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Chuck Skinner
news:92o3ttg0eidh8roud...@4ax.com:
Yep, my favorites are MeKCNKaHCKNN (sorry, you'll have to reverse the
Ns yourself).
Chuck Skinner
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wrote, perhaps among other things...:
>Boron Elgar <boron...@hotmail.com> wrote in
>news:92o3ttg0eidh8roud...@4ax.com:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:48:26 -0400, Bill Diamond
>><bi...@nospambilldiamond.com> wrote:
>
>>>It's pronounced CONCERT
>>>
>>
>> Ever been to a PECTOPAH?
>
>Yep, my favorites are MeKCNKaHCKNN (sorry, you'll have to reverse the
>Ns yourself).
>
>Chuck Skinner
I used to subscribe to AMEPNIKA magazine, along with USSR (Later
SOVIET LIFE). Ditto on the "N".
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> I used to subscribe to AMEPNIKA magazine, along with USSR (Later
Er, there's no letter in modern Russian that looks like I. Perhaps
that was AMEPNKA?
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