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04-14-2011, 11:19 AM
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Wight of the Old Forest
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall
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G55, has Google Translate been drinking again, or does your old sig really mean "No copy of sorrow in store"?
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04-14-2011, 03:30 PM
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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Pffffffffff!
That's what you get when you translate literally, and kind of using synonyms. It really means something like "Don't store your sorrows for later".
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04-14-2011, 08:19 PM
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 41
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Не копи печали про запас
My translator says, "Don't save grief for an emergency." Makes sense to me. I always whip mine out in Traffic Courts, whenever I look in my wallet, and when I consider what my someday future mother-in-law will look like.
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04-14-2011, 08:42 PM
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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"про запас" actually means "for a back-up" or "for a case of emergency". However, it is more accurate in the overall meaning the way I translated it, I think...
*pulls hand away from keyboard: must...not...discuss...Russian...!!!...* OK. Seriously. I'm probably boring y'all to death with my Russian. Why does it keep coming up in so many threads that I post in? I have to stop.
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You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
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05-20-2011, 02:46 PM
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,512
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My past two sigs:
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), the latter one means She, though the former, is true/loyal/something-I-can't-translate Russian.I think my new signature is very appropriate, considering that those Downers who are in school/Uni are going though the same pains as I (hetic studying and exams). It means, Hold on, people! Summer is comming soon! 
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04-20-2012, 06:03 PM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold
Posts: 3,593
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A tradition in need of reviving
Here lies...
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I replace it with Quote:
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05-04-2012, 05:15 PM
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Dead Serious
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers.
Posts: 3,328
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Laying it to rest where I can find it again...
It has been a very long run (almost three years, if I am right), but my quote from Sigurd and Gudrun has been replaced.
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