Gregory's Servertoday I learned a silly new russian word: #бабушкофонов
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"number 5, which, according to the creators , expresses the five main features of the brand's phones: custom design, large buttons, ordinary menu, high-quality assembly, reliability."  @liaizon in an ideal world you would only need 5 buttons because phone numbers wouldn't include the digits five thru nine after learning that the word is actually #бабушкофон I discovered this beauty called "Sky's Edge Rotary Un-Smartphone" found here https://tehmo.com/diskovyiy-4g-telefon-postupaet-v-prodaju-6582p.html and made by Justine Haupt and released as Open Source Hardware #OSHW (they released under a modified CC license so technically gray area) anyway heres the product page https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones where you can buy one (either as a kit or premade or download the build files) @liaizon it’s “бабушкофон”, without “ов” ;) But yes, that’s a thing! My babushka has a бабушкофон x) @virtuallight oh damn I just copied the word from an article I saw I was reading, do you know how the “ов” ending works? how does it change a noun? @virtuallight answered my own question thanks wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ов thanks to @virtuallight for pointing out that I was using the possessive form of the word. its #бабушкофон (babushkophone) and the 'ов' (ov) is is the possessive like (the phone'S big buttons) @liaizon glad to be helpful! Russian is my first language, so feel free to ask anything in the future |
@liaizon 😂