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To: Mercat

Yep Russian is hard to translate you probably heard all those jokes like” In Russia language speaks you”, in this case it is true its not just what you say but how you spoke it has to be translated too . Context= very important.
Find some raw Russian and throw it in a translator the more personal it is the harder it is to understand.


8 posted on 02/13/2012 6:46:03 AM PST by Lees Swrd ("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
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To: Lees Swrd
The problem isn't with the translation so much as with the translator - who evidently does not speak or know English very well.

Russian is not that hard to translate to English, if one is somewhat fluent in both languages. Translating from English to Russian is the difficult part.

English grammar is very loose compared to Russian where every word declines and can have an action prefix's attached, further compounded by heavy use of acronyms and slang.

Digital translators are terrible at translating Russian, at least - which is likely a product of what we see here.

I recommend using Smirnitski’s “English to Russian” and his “Russian to English” dictionaries.

10 posted on 02/13/2012 8:10:44 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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