Baby yoga

[Jenn]

Comment: This is the video of the woman slinging a "baby" around, calling it
baby yoga. This just cannot be real, but I cannot find anything to prove the
people that it's not. I think that there is a real baby in parts of the video, but
not the whole thing. I've scrutinized it, but maybe y'all can help.

[granola shoes]

Holy crap. That was seriously alarming; I really was waiting for her to drop the poor baby! I can't understand how this is good for the baby in any way. Does anyone know what language the writing is at the beginning and end?

[LizzyBean]

That's no form of yoga I've ever seen!

I "think" the language is Russian, but I'm not 100% on that.

[granola shoes]

I can't tell you how many times I gasped and covered my mouth in horror (like when she swung the poor guy above her head by the arms!!). Maybe calling it "yoga" is supposed to make it seem credible? Or something?


ETA: Durrr....I just saw that it indicates "Russian" right there on the embedded video.

[LadyLockeout]

It looks very much like a very realistic doll, to me.

Besides, wouldn't a real baby be screaming its head off?

[musicgeek]

I'd bet money that that's an articulated doll with weighted feet.

[Floater]

A Swedish professor in pediatrics has commented that she could easily shake the child's brain loose this way.

[RivkahChaya]

Originally Posted by Floater

Actually, it's English that has an odd spelling compared to other languages.

Is it? What's a better transliteration?

[Floater]

Originally Posted by RivkahChaya

Is it? What's a better transliteration?

I just meant that other Germanic languages (and in this case also Russian) in most cases use the letter j for the sound that the word "yoga" begins with and English uses y (although this is a bad example as it is spelt "yoga" in those languages as well).

[RivkahChaya]

No, Russian doesn't use a "J"-- the Cyrillic alphabet doesn't have one. I don't know how the word sounds in its original language, though.

All I meant by my earlier comment, which was a bit snarky, was that I wouldn't have recognized the Cyrillic word as "yoga," after I sounded it out. But then when you pointed out that I don't know how the international phonetic alphabet would spell the word, and the Cyrillic might be more faithful to the original, I had to admit that you are right. Now I want to know what the best transliteration someone who knows the word in the original can give us.

[Floater]

Originally Posted by RivkahChaya

No, Russian doesn't use a "J"-- the Cyrillic alphabet doesn't have one.

I wouldn't say that. Й is the Cyrillic equivalent of j.