Thread: Уж от кого-кого Please translate into Latin...I mean English

Уж от кого-кого, а от них никак нельзя было ожидать, чтобы они попали в какую-нибудь странную или загадочную ситуащию.

From the 1st page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

thanks

Originally Posted by Siriusly

Уж от кого-кого, а от них никак нельзя было ожидать, чтобы они попали в какую-нибудь странную или загадочную ситуацию.

From the 1st page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

thanks

I don'n know the appropriate english equivalent for that, but that means: "what they've done (the mysterious situation), I could expect from anybody but them".

Originally Posted by Siriusly

Уж от кого-кого, а от них никак нельзя было ожидать, чтобы они попали в какую-нибудь странную или загадочную ситуащию.

From the 1st page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

thanks

They, like no one else, have never been expected to appear in the middle of some strange or mysterious situation.

Something like that.

Maybe the original will help:

They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

The last version "They were the last people you'd expect to..." by E-learner is the best.

Originally Posted by charlestonian

The last version "They were the last people you'd expect to..." by E-learner is the best.

It's not by E-learner, it's by J.K. Rowling

Cited by e-learner. Why not to obtain the original, in English then? Why to traslate backwards?

Originally Posted by charlestonian

Cited by e-learner. Why not to obtain the original, in English then? Why to traslate backwards?

What is E-learner, a translation program. If so, it seems sophisticated if it can translate an entire sentence as well as it has done the one being discussed.

Also, regarding the quote- it was not written by JK Rowling, but by И.В. Оранского, the Russian translator of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. As far as translating backwards, there are many subltle differences between the English and Russian versions.

Originally Posted by Siriusly

Also, regarding the quote- it was not written by JK Rowling, but by И.В. Оранского, the Russian translator of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

перевод И.В. Оранского -> translated by И.В. Оранский

Originally Posted by Siriusly

What is E-learner, a translation program.

What is Siriusly, a confusion program.