Thread: Writing a Zombie Apocalypse Story

By the way, the story is a Metaphor for consumerism. The people in this fictional country dont call the undead "zombies" but "consumers".

Is there a way to translate the word "Consumer" into "He who eats/consume" in Russian?

Do I make sense?

Originally Posted by Consumer

Do I make sense?

No

Originally Posted by Consumer

By the way, the story is a Metaphor for consumerism. The people in this fictional country dont call the undead "zombies" but "consumers".

Is there a way to translate the word "Consumer" into "He who eats/consume" in Russian?

Do I make sense?

We have a verb "потреблять".

Я не потребляю мясо - I do not consume meat. That means "I don't eat meat". But it is implied that "I also don't buy it".

But when it is used as a noun "потребитель" the meaning will be "a finel user of goods or services".

Originally Posted by Consumer

By the way, the story is a Metaphor for consumerism. The people in this fictional country dont call the undead "zombies" but "consumers".

Is there a way to translate the word "Consumer" into "He who eats/consume" in Russian?

Потребитель (Consumer) in Russian has nothing to do with "devourer" or "eater" or like. As for wordplays in Russian about consumerism there is a word "потреблядь" which is a mixture of "consumer" and "whore". Nothing to do with zombies though.

Also I can think about perfectly translatable but a bit complicated sarcastic "phylosophycal" concept of oranus "the spirit of consumerism driven by the oral (envy) and anal (consumption) wow-factors".

As for the country in DayZ, it is not so fictional. Many features point directly to Belarus, even original name is a historical part of Belarus. Towns mostly do exist really (at list there are towns with such names).

Well, OK. I can try to translate.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

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Also I can think about perfectly translatable but a bit complicated sarcastic "phylosophycal" concept of oranus "the spirit of consumerism driven by the oral (envy) and anal (consumption) wow-factors".

I am interested to know what you can make of this.

Originally Posted by Consumer

By the way, the story is a Metaphor for consumerism. The people in this fictional country dont call the undead "zombies" but "consumers".

Is there a way to translate the word "Consumer" into "He who eats/consume" in Russian?

Do I make sense?

Nope. lol! So, are you going to walk around with arms stretched out trying to eat people?

Originally Posted by 14Russian

Nope. lol! So, are you going to walk around with arms stretched out trying to eat people?

I wont be acting these out LOL but I might use my voice!