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  1. June 17th, 2008, 01:57 PM #21
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    D/C-student is ok, but it doesn't fit in "Kin Dza Dza", as for "labrake", online dictionaries don't know this word, not merriam-webster nor others.

    Just to clarify: I am no longer looking for the best translation of that sentence, I've asked my previous question just of curiositiy.
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  2. June 17th, 2008, 07:44 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    If in AmE it's struggling in school, and in BrE it's struggling at school, why doing badly at school is ok for the both, AmE and BrE?
    No idea.

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    And I have another small question:
    How would you read the words written as "chatl" and "chatle"? Is it чэтл for the both, or the second one is чэйтл?
    Thanks!
    I would read them both as чатл, but that's because I don't have the American accent necessary to justify the odd convention of transliterating English a into Russian э. If you are asking whether the final e would modify the sound of the a then the answer is no.
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    Do they both sound like "chattel", or not?..
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    Probably.

    They could also conceivably be pronounced "shattel".
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  5. June 18th, 2008, 01:36 AM #25
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    You can say (in AmE) "doing badly in school." I think that sounds better, anyway. I suspect "at school" is the proper phrasing.


    By the way, what is chatl? And scotcher is right about the a. I would say it as the same AmE 'a' in cat. And, yes, I would say it as the word chattel.

    Scotcher - out of curiosity, do you say can (the verb) and can (the noun) the same way? I realized I do not.
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  6. June 18th, 2008, 02:05 AM #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZelyeUrsuli
    By the way, what is chatl?
    A monetary unit on some planet
    I prefer the spelling chatle. It seems more consistent with English language to me.
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  7. June 18th, 2008, 03:22 AM #27
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    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Quote Originally Posted by ZelyeUrsuli
    By the way, what is chatl?
    A monetary unit on some planet
    I prefer the spelling chatle. It seems more consistent with English language to me.
    That's fine....Haha. But chattel is a real word...

    P.S. А какие другие планеты вы навестили?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZelyeUrsuli
    Scotcher - out of curiosity, do you say can (the verb) and can (the noun) the same way? I realized I do not.
    Yeah I do.
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  9. June 18th, 2008, 12:28 PM #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZelyeUrsuli
    But chattel is a real word...
    Yes, I know... And that's no good in this case, I think... But it's чатл in Russian, so...

    P.S. А какие другие планеты вы навестили?
    Плюк, Хануд и Альфу.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_dza_dza
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