Thread: Ник Перумов о русофобии

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Okay, first, a question about Russian: What are some good colloquial ways to express "I couldn't catch everything that he said, but I got the gist of it?"

"Я въехал не во всё, что он там наболтал, но основную идею я ухватил."

(Как будет по-русски "white guilt" ?)

There is no white guilt in Russian.

(Это мне чем-то напоминает стихо из пьесы[/B] "Julius Caesar" Шекспира: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.")

ЗЫ: Если у вас какие-нибудь вопросы относительно грамматике в английской глагольной фразе "to blow sh!t up", обращайтесь ко мне!

Hm? Why right-wing Americans consider terrorists' victims a sh!t?

PS "фраза" means "sentence". "Phrase" usually is "оборот" or "словосочетание".

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Hm? Why right-wing Americans consider terrorists' victims a sh!t?

"Well, I do have some Muslim neighbors who are wonderful, lovely people... but the Islamic world as a whole seems to have a disproportionate number of CRAZY MOTHERF*CKERS WHO LIKE TO BLOW SH!T UP."

It-ogo, ты видать сам чуток не догнал здесь. ))
…но, в целом, в исламском мире непропорционально велико число отмороженных ублюдков, которым не терпится чего-нибудь взорвать.
О жертвах террористов никто плохо здесь не говорит.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Hm? Why right-wing Americans consider terrorists' victims a sh!t?

The phrase "to blow sh!t up" is a classic example of the word "sh!t" being used in a completely neutral way, without any negative connotations -- in this context, it means "stuff" or "things" or "anything and everything."

Similarly, one can say about food (for example): "Wow, this sh!t is delicious!" without any irony.

(Although one might say it especially about a food that you've never tried before and is perhaps a bit strange-looking, but turns out to be very tasty -- "this sh!t is delicious!" was my reaction the first time I tried баклажанную икру! And of course, high-quality травка is often described as "good sh!t".)

On the other hand, "this tastes like sh!t" can ONLY be negative!