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Вместо "you don't have it" можно сказать и "you haven't got it". (But NB that the present-tense form "to have got" is highly idiomatic, so you can't generalize from it.)

Johanna, since you're from Sweden, maybe you were subconsciously hungry for lutefisk! :D

Hmmm... from Russian wikipedia, it seems that щёлочь is the best translation for "lye" -- the entry for...

Is that how they spell lie in England?[/quote]

No, Johanna simply made a typo -- "lye" means sodium hydroxide (NaOH) in all English-speaking countries. (Exactly the same pronunciation as "lie".)

I could correct Eugene-p in either of two ways --

Either:



Or:

Well, that's just silly! Я сам абсолютно уверен, что мои родители занимались сексом, как минимум, дважды -- ведь я есть, а у меня лишь одна младшая сестра, и братьев нету!

(А если происходилось,...

Does this mean "I want to hang that bastard!"? (I didn't know the word петля, but my dictionary says that "noose" is one of the possible meanings.")

Здорово! But I wish it had Russian subtitles... the Russian comes so fast that it's difficult to understand some of the words, even though I'm very familiar with the original English. What word is he...

"Perversion". Also, NB that the "s" is pronounced here like ж, as in "vision" and "illusion", etc., although the "t" in a word such as "motion" is pronounced like ш.

And just for completeness, the...

Thanks, Dmitry! Вот: Мой папа служил офицером в морской пехоте, поэтому я с детства до юности был окружен морпехами (и военниыми вообще).

In US English, the children of military men (and less...

Almost in every English speaking film I've watched in my life I heard actors absolutely freely use the word 'f..k' a lot of times during the film. EVEN from women and CHILDREN. [...] So I 100% know...

Он признался, что чувствует дефицит гомо-секса? :ROFL:

(What you wrote means they in Iran need and miss that kind of sex).[/quote:anj7v2ll]

That was my intended meaning -- I love it when I...

А в Иране, условия совсем другие. Там секс вообще бывает, но существует суровый дефицит гомо-секса. (Или так утвердил президент Ахмадинежад, выступая с речью у ООН!) :unknown: