Printable View
Как сказать по-английски:
- Вы знали и бездействовали (как вам не стыдно)!
- Мы не бездействовали!
- You knew all and did nothing, shame on you!
- We... 'didn't do nothing' (?) <--это ведь плохо звучит?
Or, maybe 'do nothig' is just a wrong translation for бездействовать?
No, I think it's a good translation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Оля
"all along"="the whole time"
"We didn't do nothing"="We didn't do anything" but makes you sound poorly educated.
Perhaps: "We didn't sit on our hands."
Although, you could say: "We didn't not do anything." That would work fine, too, as long as you stressed "not".
Thank you, Matroskin.
How about this variant:
That's not true that we did nothing.
That variant is possible.
You could also just simply say "That's not true!"
in that case it would be better to say "It's no true that we did nothing." Even better: It's not true that we didn't do anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Оля
По-моему, лучше так:
- You knew all along and did nothing, shame on you!
- We... did not do nothing!
Ударение падает на 'not', иначе звучит неграмотно и имеет другое значение 'мы ничего не делали'.
I agree with this, after I corrected a typo. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ZelyeUrsuli
"That's" isn't wrong, exactly, but we would say "it's", usually, if there is more information to follow.
Eehhh Double negative?Quote:
Originally Posted by basurero
You mean did not do anything?
Eehhh... Irony, maybe? Mimicing, mocking? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
Maybe it looks better this way: - We... did not "do nothing"!
("do nothing" is an action here. Kinda.)
"We did not do nothing" means "We did something".
Example.
"Why did do nothing when someone made horrible mistakes on MR?"
"I did not do nothing, I corrected them".
How is it Ironic? What is there to mock?
Btw the topic should be "do nothiNg"
Now thats ironic! Olya, Ms. I never make typos - dogboy blames his crappy russian on typos.
See it happens to the best of us.
Maybe I chose wrong epithets, but that's excaclty what I meant. Only I imagined a more heated conversation:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
Person A: ... and you did nothing!
Person B, who obviously did something and is pissed off with the accusation: (mimicing Person 1, maybe even making faces at him :lol: ): I did not do nothing!!!
:D
Well yes, from this its ok.Quote:
Person A: ... and you did nothing!
Person B, who obviously did something and is pissed off with the accusation: (mimicing Person 1, maybe even making faces at him Laughing ): I did not do nothing!!!
But what I got from olenka's question, this isn't what she asked for.
I'm always mixing up those silly epithets. Crazy them.
My bad. I was too lazy to scroll the page and look for the original question. I decided to answer the last one instead. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
Yeah, I usually do that too. Infact I didn't read half of what was written, so in all practicality, I could be completely wrong. Its just how I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by gRomoZeka
Moжет быть, я неправильно понял "мы не бездействовали" :?
Это не значит, что вопреки мнению первого говорящего, кто считает , что они ничего не делали, они и на самом деле постарались предотвратить плохое положение, но им этого не удалось?
Quote:
mimicking
the wrong epithets
Правильно.Quote:
Originally Posted by basurero
Значит.
Yes, it's a double negative, but there are correct and incorrect double negatives depending on how you say it. Compare:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
"You did nothing!" (Вы бездействовали!)
"We didn't 'do nothing'"! (Мы не бездействовали!) Correct.
"What did you do today?"
"We didn't do nothing." Incorrect double negative.
"We didn't do anything." Correct.
Italics here mean emphasis.
"Do на фиг" тоже неплохо звучит.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
Согласен!Quote:
Originally Posted by Оля