I’m listening on Audible to a book titled Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe. I’m only half through and not ready to opine on the book but I have to mention something that is very annoying and detracts from my reading pleasure. Ioffe reads the book herself, and even though her family emigrated from the USSR when she was only 7, she somehow managed to develop a nasty moss cow accent in her Russian. (The book is in English but Ioffe pronounces names and some phrases in Russian).
I can’t stand the moss cow accent. It’s ugly, it’s stupid. One doesn’t expect it from somebody who left the country at 7.
OK, I feel better now and can continue reading.
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“the moss cow accent”
Is that the ugly and annoying nasal whine that shows up on clips from russian state tv?
I have 2 Ukrainian channels in my cable lineup one in Ukrainian and one in russian and I notice the accent on the Ukrainian russian channel is much more pleasant with a warmer less nasal and less whiny sound.
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Nasal, and with an emphasis on A. Мааскваа. Bleh.
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