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    translation help needed

    Please help me with translation for a phone conversation with non-English speaking parent of my fiancee. I need this transliterated so I can pronounce it reasonably well.

    "Please tell Sveta that I love her and I miss her--tell her it will all work out. Should I call her Friday night or on Saturday?"

    Thank you very much to whomever can help!

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    Пожалуйста, скажи Свете, что её люблю и по ней скучаю -- скажи ей что всё будет ОК. Надо ей позвонить в пятницу вечером или в субботу?
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    Wouldn't скажите be more appropriate than скажи in this instance, since he'll be speaking to his future parent-in-law?

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    Of course you are right, Scotcher.
    This and some other corrections:
    Пожалуйста, скажите Свете, что я её люблю и скучаю по ней -- скажите ей что всё получится [your version was also correct, Jasper, but this one seems to me more suitable here]. Мне ["надо" implies that he is forced to call her] ей позвонить в пятницу вечером или в субботу?

    Transliteration:
    Pozhalusta, skazhite Svete, chto ya yeyo lyublyu i skuchayu po ney - skazhite yey chto vsyo poluchitsa. Mne yey pozvonit' v pyatnitsu vecherom ili v subbotu?
    rhetoric, in some time I'll try to record it in a sound file and put a link here.
    "Happy new year, happy new year
    May we all have a vision now and then
    Of a world where every neighbour is a friend"

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    Thank you!

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    http://www.friendy.pochta.ru/sounds/sveta.mp3 -
    text as it would be said normally
    http://www.friendy.pochta.ru/sounds/sveta1.mp3 -
    here I pronounced each word separately
    "Happy new year, happy new year
    May we all have a vision now and then
    Of a world where every neighbour is a friend"

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    But Friendy! So scandalous! Who is this mysterious lover "Sveta" of yours?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pravit
    But Friendy! So scandalous! Who is this mysterious lover "Sveta" of yours?

    Well, actually, I've stolen her from rhetoric.
    "Happy new year, happy new year
    May we all have a vision now and then
    Of a world where every neighbour is a friend"

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