"Dnipro is a crash when it's not in affect!" — Medvedev told Gogol's story in the language of zoomers

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev made congratulations on the Russian Language Day by translating with the help of artificial intelligence the famous fragment of Nikolai Gogol's story "Terrible Revenge" from "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka", written in 1831, into the slang of the generation of zoomers.

"Despite all the difficulties of our current life, despite international events, including the abuse of [US President Donald] Trump and [American entrepreneur Elon] Musk, the main thing today is the Russian Language Day," Medvedev wrote.

For comparison, he first cited the author's classic version: "The Dnieper is wonderful in calm weather, when it rushes freely and smoothly through forests and mountains full of its own water. Neither rustles; nor thunders. You look and do not know whether its majestic width is coming or not coming, and it seems as if it is all poured out of glass, and as if a blue mirror road, without measure in width, without end in length, flies and winds through the green world… Then it is a pleasure for the hot sun to look around from above and immerse the rays in the cold of the glassy waters and the coastal forests to shine brightly in the waters... They dare not look into the middle of the Dnieper: no one but the sun and the blue sky does not look into it. A rare bird will fly to the middle of the Dnieper! Lush! there is no river equal to it in the world..."

Medvedev recalled that satirist Lion Izmailov had already tried to "play" with this text. In the first issue of the newsreel "Yeralash" on September 11, 1974, his story "Well, why do we say that?!" was used. In the arrangement for the youth of the 1970s-1980s, the classic Gogol sounded like this: "Cool Dnieper in cool weather, in general, in kind ... wandering and showing off, sawing through forests and mountains cool waters of its own, not crazy, not covered, go outside, open a mitten, hatch zenki and do not know, sawing or not saws… A rare bird with a shnobel will reach the middle of the Dnieper. And if he combs it, he'll whoop so hard that he'll throw off his hooves..."

The deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation gave his own version — in the language of the zoomer generation, using AI:

"Dnipro is a crash when it's not in affect! Fiercely pumps its full waters through forests and mountains, does not even move — on the balcony. The sun from above is like, "Wow!“ — and shoots rays into cold waters, and the trees by the shore, like swamps, crowd, look into the water and throw the Dnieper. But no one remembers to the middle of the Dnieper — only a rare streamer on a drone will fly there ... and at night? Full vibe!"

Medvedev ironically urged each reader to choose the option that is closer to him.

"But this is all a living Russian language that is developing, while discarding everything alien to it," he concluded.