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    Tattoo translation

    Hello!
    My father would like to get a tattoo with me in Russian but I would just like to know what the correct translation would be since I don't trust google translate.
    The phrase I would like is "I was not put on this earth to be ordinary"

    Thanks!

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    Maybe - я был послан на землю, чтобы быть обычным.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vikk View Post
    Maybe - я был послан на землю, чтобы быть обычным.
    где отрицание?

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    "Я не был послан на Землю, чтобы быть обычным" is literal translation.
    I google this phrase and found that greatest classic russian novelist Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy wrote in his diaries the same thought: https://books.google.ru/books?id=dh5...%D0%B5&f=false
    "Есть во мне что-то, что заставляет меня верить, что я рождён не для того, чтобы быть таким, как все".
    "There is something inside me, which makes me believe, what I was not born to be like everyone.".
    So... last part "Я рождён не для того, чтобы быть таким, как все" is "I was not born to be like everyone." which has the same meaning and can be presented as part of russian literature also.

    In english: https://books.google.ru/books?id=WBU...olstoy&f=false
    Lampada and Soft sign like this.

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    Очень спасибо!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mhenders5 View Post
    Очень спасибо!!
    Большое спасибо. (Thank you very much.)
    Контекст - (от лат. contextus - соединение - связь), относительно законченный отрывок письменной или устной речи (текста), в пределах которого наиболее точно выявляется значение отдельных входящих в него слов, выражений и т. п.

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