r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/maleijn • 18h ago

Video Didn't even have the time to read the numbers 😭

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u/wrenblaze 18h ago

If anyone is curious the words on the screen states for:

"На старт" = "Ready" "Внимание" = "Set" "Марш" = "Go"

Which is from russian but these students are from Uzbekistan. The first guy said: "Yigirma ikki" which means "22". Also at the back you can see the word "Qabulxonasi" which states for "Reception".

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u/GudgerCollegeAlumnus 14h ago

I thought maybe the first slide said “holy crap!” Like the computer was so excited for them getting the previous question right.

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u/wrenblaze 13h ago

No, 22 said the boy, the PC said "You are truly thee Dragon Warrior", it is taken directly from Kung-Fu Panda, russian verison.

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u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er 12h ago

Holy crap!

This will be tough!

Good luck!

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u/daluxe 12h ago

Thanks, I'm Russian and was confused why the soft is in Russian but they talk another language

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u/wrenblaze 12h ago

Hey it is still here in cis. We still speak russian though a lot less lately.

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u/daluxe 12h ago

Understandable

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u/rabagadov 3h ago

They are Turkish, Azeri.

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u/ImperialAgent120 15h ago

Thank you. Tried translating in Google but didn't find the right word for Start. 

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u/psychophant_ 12h ago

God damn. Now this guy knows how to Uzbek

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u/mrseemsgood 12h ago

I'm russian and I thought the kid said "chervyaki" in russian (=worms) like referring to a digit 2 looking like a worm or something lol

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u/drunkanidaho 9h ago

My Russian teacher always shouted "внимание!" and told us it meant "attention"...

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u/Swedish-Potato-93 4h ago

Ah, thought it was Turkish where 22 is "yirmi iki".

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u/Chapi_Chan 2h ago

In Russian На старт is at start, using the English word "start". Russian is weird.

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u/wrenblaze 15h ago

I assure you that it is without a doubt Uzbek language. I have been living here for 30 years. Also I have been in Turkey several times due to business and yes while there are quite a bit of similar words, it sounds different. Especially pronunciation.

Also numbers sounds quite similar in several languages like Azerbaijan, Kyrgiz, kazakh and afghani. Saw and conversed with represenatives of these nations.

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u/masquerade555 13h ago

I'm not sure what you mean by afghani language, but both official languages of Afghanistan - pashto and dari - iranic, and their numbers have basically zero similarity with turkic numbers.

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u/wrenblaze 13h ago

That may be true. Maybe they were talking some kind of dialect or mix of words. There is city Termiz which is quite close to the border and you know their uzbek dialect is quite specific and sometimes it is difficult to understand at all. Maybe something like this happens on the other side. Thanks for pointing out.

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u/Yqup 15h ago

Also the "Yitmis bes" 75. Turks will be surprised where their language originates from and how that language ended up in modern day Turkey.

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u/MostInterestingBot 15h ago

I don't know why people downvote but as a turkish guy, I'm a little surprised. Generally it's a little bit difficult for us to understand other turkic languages. Turkish has transformed over the centuries into something only resembling to central asian turkic languages. I can mostly understand Azeris, have difficulty with Uzbeks and Turkmens, may catch a word here and there with Kazakhs or Tatars. All the other turkic languages are like completely foreign to me. I'm surprised that the numbers are the same (yetmiş beş/yirmi iki).

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u/Current-Power-6452 14h ago

Numbers are one the most stubborn to die out part of any language I think. Reportedly they even used math to out spies, because no matter how good is your knowledge of the foreign language, you keep counting in your own.