Yesssssssssssssss! South Africa scored 2 goals against France!

[alexandral]

I am so so happy for the host country! South Africa:France , 2:1.

I want "South Africa" to go to the next round; if Mexico and Uruguay match ends in a draw,I will harbor all sorts of suspicions!

I am so so happy!

But I am less happy about following things:

- There have been quite a lot of drama already in this World Cup; so far the French team debacle is the biggest and the nastiest. Their match with South Africa feels like they are not even trying, and what a disgrace this is!

- I am also quite surprised by the way the yellow and red cards have been dished out like hotcakes. I don't think the red card against South African goalie was fair, but the one against Kaka was the worst of all.

- David Villa Punching Emilio Izaguirre just out of the blue was a nasty one as well.

To end the post on less grumpy note and celebrate my recent interest in Kaka, here is a short pictorial collection of the footballer with the STRANGEST NAME EVER (it literally means "poo" in Russian, and as I was told, in some other languages as well) who is nonetheless one of the hottest and bestest footballers there is:












Edit: I just have watched the footage, and after the match Raymond Domenech REFUSED TO SHAKE HANDS with the South African coach. OMPH! The man is a lunatic!

Edit 2: Argentina : Greece , 2 : 0 ! Fantastic! I am so happy for MessiArgentina !

South Korea : Nigeria , 2 : 2. This was a really good match, and I am so so happy my South Korea is going through!!!!!!!

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Russian I would say is a very flexible language, the main difference with English is that the structure of the sentence is pretty flexible, and any word , depending on the position in the sentence and on the declension (for verbs as well as for nouns) can change the meaning dramatically.

Another difference is the wide use of prefixes and endings.

Emphasis is pretty flexible too, many words can have two or more acceptable emphasises.

Kaka means "poo" when the emphasis is on the first A - kAka, when the emphasis is on the second A (kakA) the word means "to go do a poo" in a way you can say to a child..

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

LOL I am such a pedant.

Thank you for the disquisition on Kaka's nickname! I expect we shall be seeing more of him in the next few rounds (it is the Brazilian tradition after all)

I repeated everything you wrote to my husband, who has now shut up about K's nickname meaning "shit" (the English ...)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I repeated everything you wrote to my husband, who has now shut up about K's nickname meaning "shit" (the English ...)

hahahhaha!

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

I find it so interesting that these syllables mean "poo" in so many different languages.

Not in Asia as far as I know, though.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Not in Asia as far as I know, though.

No, must be something to do with Latin? Russian has a lot of Latin influence.

[thinking-lotus.livejournal.com]

Thank you I have often wished that I took the opportunity to learn Russian in high school. But at the time I was much more interested in Spanish.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

When I moved to the UK I used to think "I wish i studied English better at school"!!!