Thread: ...то уже и не будет

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Here "у тебя" is omitted but implied everywhere. So more natural way is to use "you have", I beieve. "If you haven't children in 60, you'll never have. etc."

"If you don' have children in 60 years, you'll never have them. If you don't have money in 50 years, you'll never have that. If you don't acquire health in 40 years, you never will. If you still haven't found love in 30 years, you won't find it. Why? -- Because after 20 years, you have no brain."

Better? What do you think?

Originally Posted by Deborski

"If you don' have children in 60 years, you'll never have them. If you don't have money in 50 years, you'll never have that. If you don't acquire health in 40 years, you never will. If you still haven't found love in 30 years, you won't find it. Why? -- Because after 20 years, you have no brain."

Better? What do you think?

For me better. But I am not an English native.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

For me better. But I am not an English native.

But the sense is that all the other things went wrong because the subject did not have a brain in the first place? If I am understanding it correctly?

Originally Posted by Deborski

But the sense is that all the other things went wrong because the subject did not have a brain in the first place? If I am understanding it correctly?

Yes. "No brains", brainless is an idiom in Russian as well as in English. You failed your life because you spent your young years brainlessy.

This text is a famous group of the proverbs, but worded in opposite order, so they start sounding like a philosophic joke.