
04-25-2011, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by crispus
Not a bad guess (it was my first idea too), but it appeared more than once from the same user, then from another; not the sort of thing you'd expect from a typo. So, here's my next thought: it was meant to signify "super," but was a mistaken transliteration, rather than a typo. On my Cyrillic converter, typing s-u-p-e-r yields с-у-п-е-р; many people realize that the thing looking like the Greek letter "pi" is for "p," while the apparent "p" (not least because we already found something for "p") is actually "r." Some may recall from seeing the Cyrillic version of the abbreviation for "Soviet Socialist Republics" that the things looking like "c" equate to our "s," but what I'd guess fewer realize is that what looks like "y" is our "u" (cf. "нудызм" for "nudism"); ergo...
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