Thread: I need some help, please

If anyone can help me, I would appreciate it.

This was an sms and I don't understand some of the words. I think there are phrases, something about honey mushrooms, and it must mean something else. I know it is an angry sms .

"daje poka ne mog skazat'? nu ti i svinya a marina opyat ne mojet dat' trubku tebe tak chto ya tebe zvonit' bolshe ne budu skaji ei spasibo pasha i mne segodnya zvonit' toge ne nado eto znaet chto ti i kak eto budet viglyadet' chto ti ne odin raz v den zvonish ?"

also, if someone calls someone "goroshinka", what does that mean. translated, i think it is "pea", but is it a term of endearment?

Thanks/spasibo.
Ethan

If you wanted translation, here it is:
Даже пока не мог сказать? Ну, ты и свинья, а Марина опять не может дать трубку тебе, так что я тебе звонить больше не буду. Скажи ей спасибо Паша, и мне сегодня звонить тоже не надо. Что ты и как это будет выглядеть, что ты не один раз в день звонишь.

goroshinka/горошинка means a small pea

>Is it a term of endearment?
I don't think so, but maybe.

Thank you very much.

That helped a lot, however, I am still uncertain about this phrase: "Hу, ты и свинья, а Марина опять не может дать трубку тебе, так что я тебе звонить больше не буду." I am not sure I understand the usage of трубку.

Трубку (винительный падеж)=трубка
It's a russian slang
Трубка means телефон
Звонить на телефон/трубку.

And also
Телефон=Трубка=Мобильник(Mob ile phone)
Have you found out it now?

It looks like whoever this SMS was to, just got burned.

That helped a lot, however, I am still uncertain about this phrase: "Hу, ты и свинья, а Марина опять не может дать трубку тебе, так что я тебе звонить больше не буду." I am not sure I understand the usage of трубку.

Well you are a pig, and marina can't give you the cellphone again, and so i wont ever call you again.

Трубка = cell phone.

Трубка also means a telephone receiver (btw this meaning is more fundamental, it existed before the cellphones appeared)
Some examples of usage:
-А Марина дома?
-Да, сейчас передаю ей трубку.
(-Is Marina at home?
-Yes, I'm giving her the receiver now)

Возьми трубку - Pick up the phone

Бросить трубку - Hang up the receiver

Your sentence may also mean the following (actually its sense is not very clear from the context so it's just a version): author is calling Pasha but it's Marina (who lives in the same appartment) who picks up the phone and she doesn't call Pasha (doesn't give him the receiver). So the caller thinks that since Marina doesn't call Pasha anyway she won't call him any more 'cause it's useless.

what are the real verbs for "to hang up" / pick up phone ?

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

what are the real verbs for "to hang up" / pick up phone ?

pick up phone - поднять трубу/трубку
to hang up - повесить/положить трубу/трубку
to hold on - не класть трубу/трубку

e.g. hold on, please. - не кладите, пожалуйста, трубку.

omg are you joking?? I could have guessed those !

Alware... you might have confused "pick up the phone" (i think this is american "slang") with "to answer the phone... which, in anycase might be... let me guess "Отвечать трубу" ?

Pick up the phone is perfectly normal in British English .. I don't think it's slang really.
Is there a big difference between 'pick up the phone' and 'answer the phone'? I tend to think of it as more or less the same.
I guess they don't say Отвечать трубу, buy let's see what alware says.

May be, it's AmE slang but an expression
Позвови Марину к телефону = Put Marina on the phone.

Originally Posted by BETEP

May be, it's AmE slang but an expression
Позвови Марину к телефону = Put Marina on the phone.

Некоторые Мэри не зовут, а просто "имеют"
Could I have Marina?

You dare to battle me waxwing ? muahahah

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

omg are you joking?? I could have guessed those !

Alware... you might have confused "pick up the phone" (i think this is american "slang") with "to answer the phone... which, in anycase might be... let me guess "Отвечать трубу" ?

Отвечать трубу is wrong.
Right version would be отвечать трубе but only in case when труба is speaking itself
to answer the phone (to pick up the phone) - (поднять трубу) / (ответить на звонок/телефон) but never ответить на трубу.

««Теплый летний вечер, звонит труба, на жидкокристаллическом табло
с подсветкой, наблюдаю время – двадцать два ноль два – отвечаю я. слышу голос Светки. »»

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

««Теплый летний вечер, звонит труба, на жидкокристаллическом табло
с подсветкой, наблюдаю время – двадцать два ноль два – отвечаю «да»,
слышу голос Светки »»

Your answer да here is for Светка (звонящий) not for the труба itself. And only after you поднял трубу (городской телефон с трубкой) or ответил на звонок (or sometimes also поднял) мобила and this action in aforecited text is just skipped.

I'd say that "труба" for a cell phone sounds obsolete now. I guess the origin was when we used to have real huge cell phones. Now they're teeny weeny and calling them "трубы" sounds weird.

FINE you win

Originally Posted by Victor

I'd say that "труба" for a cell phone sounds obsolete now. I guess the origin was when we used to have real huge cell phones. Now they're teeny weeny and calling them "трубы" sounds weird.

May be it sounds weird to you, but people still use that word. At least in my area. The following dialogue of two teenagers is pretty common:
- Зацени трубу!
- Отстой! У меня труба круче.

I do call my tiny phone труба

Originally Posted by Alware

to answer the phone (to pick up the phone) - (поднять трубу) / (ответить на звонок/телефон) but never ответить на трубу.

You know, 'ответить на телефон' sounds for me unnaturally too.

Поднять трубку
Взять трубку
Ответить на звонок
Ответить
Взять звонок (only in office where a call comes to more than one phone)

I think 'труба' is a slang word for cell phone only.