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Upyachka: an archive of Russian forum-era slang
A Russian-language fan archive gathers Upyachka vocabulary, a short history, and a resident ASCII cat.
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- Russian-speaking readers of forum-era internet culture
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- The glossary runs from «аццкий» to «ъеччо» and says it includes examples where the words can be used.
Field notes
The archive separates its material into a vocabulary collection and a year-by-year account of the phenomenon's origins and later course. Its homepage says the texts were collected from memory, and the chronology cautions that some details may be misremembered. The site's Russian copy also keeps the period's emphatic catchphrases and cat jokes in view.
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