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    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?
    In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.

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    Re: do nothig

    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Как сказать по-английски:

    - Вы знали и бездействовали (как вам не стыдно)!
    - Мы не бездействовали!

    - You knew all along 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.

    "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".
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    Re: do nothig

    Thank you, Matroskin.

    How about this variant:
    That's not true that we did nothing.
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    That variant is possible.

    You could also just simply say "That's not true!"
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    Re: do nothig

    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Thank you, Matroskin.

    How about this variant:
    That's not true that we did nothing.
    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.

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    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'.

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    Re: do nothig

    Quote Originally Posted by ZelyeUrsuli
    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Thank you, Matroskin.

    How about this variant:
    That's not true that we did nothing.
    in that case it would be better to say "It's not true that we did nothing." Even better: It's not true that we didn't do anything.
    I agree with this, after I corrected a typo.

    "That's" isn't wrong, exactly, but we would say "it's", usually, if there is more information to follow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by basurero
    - We... did not do nothing!
    Eehhh Double negative?

    You mean did not do anything?
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogboy182
    Quote Originally Posted by basurero
    - We... did not do nothing!
    Eehhh Double negative?
    Eehhh... Irony, maybe? Mimicing, mocking?
    Maybe it looks better this way: - We... did not "do nothing"!
    ("do nothing" is an action here. Kinda.)

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    "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.
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogboy182
    "We did not do nothing" means "We did something".
    [...]
    "I did not do nothing, I corrected them".
    How is it Ironic? What is there to mock?
    Maybe I chose wrong epithets, but that's excaclty what I meant. Only I imagined a more heated conversation:

    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 ): I did not do nothing!!!

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    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!!!
    Well yes, from this its ok.

    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.
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogboy182
    But what I got from olenka's question, this isn't what she asked for.
    My bad. I was too lazy to scroll the page and look for the original question. I decided to answer the last one instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gRomoZeka
    Quote Originally Posted by Dogboy182
    But what I got from olenka's question, this isn't what she asked for.
    My bad. I was too lazy to scroll the page and look for the original question. I decided to answer the last one instead.
    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.
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    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?


    mimicking

    the wrong epithets

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    Quote Originally Posted by basurero
    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?
    Правильно.

    Значит.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogboy182
    Quote Originally Posted by basurero
    - We... did not do nothing!
    Eehhh Double negative?

    You mean did not do anything?
    Yes, it's a double negative, but there are correct and incorrect double negatives depending on how you say it. Compare:

    "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.
    "Сейчас без языка нельзя... из тебя шапку сделают..."
    Cogito Ergo Doleo

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogboy182
    Btw the topic should be "do nothiNg"
    "Do на фиг" тоже неплохо звучит.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Quote Originally Posted by Dogboy182
    Btw the topic should be "do nothiNg"
    "Do на фиг" тоже неплохо звучит.
    Согласен!
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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