Thursday, 7 November 2013

Yanyaga

Yanyaga: noun. Contrary to popular belief, yanyaga is not a word of japanese origin and has nothing to do with strange stuff one may find on the internet originating from that country. In fact, yanyagas were created by the strange unison of a Spanish word and Russian folklore, as the name was derived from the words "llano," meaning "flat" in Spanish and "Yaga," a Russian mythical character best described in the Pitcairn Dictionary of Weird Stuff as "an old hag living deep in the forests of Eastern Europe in a house standing on one chicken leg, whose role in mythology is so ambiguous, that she is an even larger mystery than Putin´s bedtime habits." As the question lends itself immediately, it is necessary to state that it is absolutely unknown how this word was created and furthermore, its definition is disputed by many scholars. Some say that the word reflects the too "flat" portrayal of Baba Yaga in certain films, while others maintain that a yanyaga is simply a Baba Yaga that had ended up under an ice resurfacing machine. Either way, the most probable is the hypothesis introduced by the Sevillan institute for linguistics, which states that in fact, the word yanyaga had been derived from the word "lleno" rather than "llano," changing the meaning from "flat" to "full." This would mean that a yanyaga can either describe a full Baba Yaga or a place full of them.

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