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How exactly do you translate names? I guessed you'd just change the english to cyrillic like Yassen to Яссен.
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Pretty much, yeah. Except for things like Igor and Olga that have soft signs in them...
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Ольга
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No
Going from Russian to English, we assign each Russian letter an English equivalent.
From English to Russian, we spell phonetically using the Russian alphabet.
So a name like Katie is not Катие, because to a Russian that spells "Kah-tyee-ye".
In Russian we would write Кейти or Кэйти, which is the closest representation of the English name.
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like, Jayde = Джейда
Right?
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Возможно и "Джейд"Originally Posted by Yassen
like, Jayde = Джейда
Right?
Or Джейди
In order to make a correct transliteration, we've got to know how exactly this name is pronounced in English.
I would say PAY was correct with "Джейд". The e is silent, it just makes the a sound more like "play" instead of "ah"
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"Alright, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me, so let's just figure this out and I'll get back to killing you with beer."
The 'a' was in the example I gave you because it Джейд is in accustive.like, Jayde = Джейда
Right?
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ok, well i get how it works i think. Just make it sound the same but with Russian wording.
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Exactly. Just spell the word phonetically with russian letters.
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Last edited by Darobat on Mon Mar 5, 1759 1:19 am; edited 243 times in total
How would you translate the name "William" since there is no "wi" sound in Russian? Bиллиам?
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Уильям or Вильям. Often it depends on tradition. For example Bruce Willis is traditionaly transliterated as Брюс Уиллис but Doyle's Doctor Watson is usually written as "доктор Ватсон".
I have a book where they translate him as Уотсон. It was very funny to read his name each time
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Of a world where every neighbour is a friend"
Уотснон is not used in classic books by Doyle, as far as I am concerned. The tradition in literature.I have a book where they translate him as Уотсон. It was very funny to read his name each time
Names AREN'T translated. I am getting tired to explain that.
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checking my three books
All three have Уотсон. The earliest of them is of 1956 with Корней Чуковский as a translation editor. So I think the popularity of "Ватсон" vs "Уотсон" is more a movie thing. Once I read that using "у" for "w" is a preferable variant (in general) by modern standards (though personally I prefer "в")
"Happy new year, happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend"
We got used to "доктор Ватсон" in Russian movies and popular jokes so much that "доктор Уотсон" sounds disgusting and weird. It's like you're talking about another person.checking my three books
All three have Уотсон. The earliest of them is of 1956 with Корней Чуковский as a translation editor. So I think the popularity of "Ватсон" vs "Уотсон" is more a movie thing. Once I read that using "у" for "w" is a preferable variant (in general) by modern standards (though personally I prefer "в")
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