Preved (Russian: Превед) refers to a current trend in the Russian-speaking Internet of choosing alternative spellings for words for comic effect, and more specifically to a picture which famously and hilariously capitalized on this trend. The picture, a modified version of John Lurie's watercolor Bear Surprise, whose popularity was stoked by emails and blogs, features a man and a woman having sex in the clearing of a forest, when suddenly a bear comes out, and with paws raised, says "Surprise!" in the original version, or "Preved!" (a misspelling of privet, "hi!") in the Russian adaptation. In keeping with another popular trend of image manipulation, that picture has been extensively modified by placing the bear, who has become an icon, into other pictures where his appearance adds a new dimension to the joke.
The larger trend of alternate spellings developed from the padonki movement which originated on sites such as udaff.com. That trend uses the opposite conversion from the Preved trend - (WRBW instead of WRBS). They would change the spelling of WRBS words to WRBW, so that 'avtor' (author) would be spelled 'aftar', 'podonok' (scum) as 'padonak', etc.
The result is funny when written and read, and when the word is pronounced letter-by-letter in the altered spelling, it becomes that much funnier, since it is only phonetically accurate when pronounced smoothly, and not at all so when each letter is enunciated in its primary form. Thus, preved is actually an alteration of privet, and can be pronounced as privet, or preved as written.
2006-07-06 22:07:30
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answered by Anonymous
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Preved (Russian: ÐÑевед) refers to a current trend in the Russian-speaking Internet of choosing alternative spellings for words for comic effect, and more specifically to a picture which famously and hilariously capitalized on this trend. The picture, a modified version of John Lurie's watercolor Bear Surprise, whose popularity was stoked by emails and blogs, features a man and a woman having sex in the clearing of a forest, when suddenly a bear comes out, and with paws raised, says "Surprise!" in the original version, or "Preved!" (a misspelling of privet, "hi!") in the Russian adaptation. In keeping with another popular trend of image manipulation, that picture has been extensively modified by placing the bear, who has become an icon, into other pictures where his appearance adds a new dimension to the joke.
The larger trend of alternate spellings developed from the padonki movement which originated on sites such as udaff.com. That trend uses the opposite conversion from the Preved trend - (WRBW instead of WRBS). They would change the spelling of WRBS words to WRBW, so that 'avtor' (author) would be spelled 'aftar', 'podonok' (scum) as 'padonak', etc.
The result is funny when written and read, and when the word is pronounced letter-by-letter in the altered spelling, it becomes that much funnier, since it is only phonetically accurate when pronounced smoothly, and not at all so when each letter is enunciated in its primary form. Thus, preved is actually an alteration of privet, and can be pronounced as privet, or preved as written.
2006-07-06 22:02:55
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answered by chelxsea 2
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do you mean "perved"? this means that someone watched another person in a 'seedy' way.
2006-07-06 22:03:05
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answered by genghis41f 6
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to foresee or anticipate
2006-07-06 22:06:35
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answered by g3010 7
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