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To: El Gato

Okay! You gotta translate that! :-)


47 posted on 03/19/2009 10:13:56 PM PDT by JennysCool (Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action - Ian Fleming)
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To: JennysCool
Okay! You gotta translate that! :-)

Russian pilots have no culture. That is they are uncultured or uncivilized, which translates, I think, to something of an insult in Russian. (Of course that's true of many of our younger pilots as well. :) )

If my wife's step niece had been about, or one of the wife's sisters in law, I could have gotten a real translation, the three of them being native speakers of Russian, instead of using Bablefish. But I ran that translation from English to Russian and then back, and the general meaning was preserved. When tried "unclutured", the reverse translation implied something not grown in a nutrient broth in a petri disk. :)

67 posted on 03/20/2009 4:49:35 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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