Like to express lack of interest
"these boots are on sale!"
"who cares"
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Like to express lack of interest
"these boots are on sale!"
"who cares"
There is no phrase with exact meaning but closest I could think of are:
меня это не интересует
мне всё равно
мне пофиг - informal
can sound rude if you use it as a response to an offer of something
Also
Не все ли равно?
Мне-то что?
А мне какое дело?
Меня это не волнует.
Меня это не колышет.
А мне наплевать.
Мне без разницы.
Мне до лампочки.
Or "ну и что?" = so what?
А можно увидеть аналогичные фразы, отражающие отсутствие интереса на английском. Заранее, thanks a lot)
Who cares?Quote:
Originally Posted by rv9yw
I don't give a (insert bad words here - ask me in private please)
I don't care.
It's all the same to me.
Whatever.
Blah, blah, blah.
So what?
I'm not interested!
Boring!
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!
Thanks a bunch :) I especially liked "Не все ли равно? "
What would be the direct translation of it? Is it really used for who cares?
Yay more ways to extress my disinterest ;)
The direct translation of Не все ли равно? is something like "Isn’t everything equals?" or "Aren’t all things equals?"
But as usual the proper translation of "who cares" depends on the context. Не все ли равно sounds more or less neutral to me as well as Меня это не интересует or Мне все равно, while all the others seem to be стилистически окрашенными (I don’t know how to say that in English – stylistically coloured?). Мне плевать and Мне пофиг sound impolite whatever but we can hear them on every street corner here.
"Не все ли равно?" - Isn't all the same? (Literally)Quote:
Originally Posted by Valda
Мне все равно. - I don't care.
Все равно. - No matter.
Это ты уже причесываешь фразу. "Равно" is not "то же самое". Valda asked about direct translation.Quote:
Originally Posted by it-ogo
"Кому интересно?" кому дело? кому важно?
Слово "равно", равно как и многие другие слова, имеет несколько разных значений.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lena
I like трын-трава because it forms catchy phrases in several hilarious songs, the most popular of which is Nikulin’s Песня про зайцевQuote:
Originally Posted by Valda
Песня про зайцев - YouTube
(you can read the lyrics in the footnotes on youtube.)
Actually that seems like the perfect workable translation. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraph
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/7120/54348685.png
Related article (VERY RUDE LEXICS!!!):
Всем похуй — Lurkmore
This expression exists in Serbian as well - мени (је) све равноQuote:
мне всё равно
"All even to me" literal translation. It means something like "don't-carish", apathetic, indifferent, impassive...
Russian:
Мне по барабану
Мне до лампочки
мне это параллельно (!)
Мне по фигу
Меня не волнует
...
Note that Мне плевать literally implies "It's for me to spit on" while Мне пофиг is very roughly "I show it the middle finger". (Because фиг is the name of a rude hand gesture).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lena
Or, as Shakespeare might've said, "I bite my thumb at it."
If I'm not mistaken, трын is a corrupted form of тын, an old word for "a fence" (for which забор is now the usual term).Quote:
Originally Posted by diogen_
So тын-трава was "grass that grows by the fence" -- in other words, useless weeds -- and трын-трава was a nonsensical variant.
(But later the meaningless трын-трава was explained as being a "magical fairytale plant." Cf. "schnozzberries" in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, or Dr. Seuss's "truffula trees".)
The most polite form of this is probably "I don't give a darn." (or "I don't give a hoot" -- but either one is "safe for children").Quote:
Originally Posted by Deborski
The rudest form in common use is "I don't give a f*ck"
And the most elaborate variant is undoubtedly "I don't give a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut"! (Of course, it's used less often because it takes so long to say.)
Valda, "who cares?" literally means "кого заботит?" or "кого это заботит?" (acceptable version). But we use "кого это волнует?", it's common and means the same. That's maximum close to the original.
I was also told that "кого ебёт?" exists... ;)
Watch out, Valda. Not every phrase you hear in the street can be discussed on a respectable forum. :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Valda
LOL! Tell me about it...me and my boyfriend were lying in bed and I used кого ебёт to show off... problem is that I pronounced it "кого ебат"Quote:
Originally Posted by Lena
He was surprised, "who to fuck?"
Then I was surprised and laughed. "Oops, mispronounced."
Hmmm... I believe that avoiding obscenities at linguistic forum in such situation is like to avoid nudity at gynecologist room because of the decency.
You see in modern Russian unlike modern English the verb "ебать" (to fuck) has specifically different sense in active and passive voice. It means that normally a man fucks while a women is fucked (unless she uses strap-on or something like that).Quote:
Originally Posted by Valda
So one of the usual "I don't give a fuck" equivalents is "Меня это не ебёт" - literally means "it does not have a sexual contact with me in passive position" i.e. "it does not disturb me violently", "it does not rape me". Correspondingly there are "меня не ебёт", "не ебёт", and rhetoric "кого это ебёт?"= "кого ебёт?"
For you in such kind of phrases (you can replace "ебёт" with "волнует" and "беспокоит" and get perfectly decent variant) I recommend not to omit "это", because it makes a phrase more clear and less dependent on intonation.
"Кто внушаемый?" who cares = who's impressed/inspired by it.
I'm sorry I posted so rude example here. There is a softer one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vyoIQGwnY
Hehehe... don't use this in the Balkans - it's mild profanity (if you add J - јебат) and it means almost the same ("who fucks it!", litteraly) ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Valda
Just wanted to add on that note: bingo.Quote:
Hmmm... I believe that avoiding obscenities at linguistic forum in such situation is like to avoid nudity at gynecologist room because of the decency.