Help with very short translation

[Marshall Hunt]

I am just beginning learning Russian with the help of a Russian friend and
would like to see if I translated correctly. Could someone tell me what the
following means:

"U menya vse horosho. Ya bez tebya skuchau."

thanks

[Philip ALR]

are you sure it's not 'u menya fsyo khorosho?' but anyway, it means
"everything is well with me. i'm bored without you" now, i'm not a
native russian, but i'm 99.9% positive that's what that says. a native
russian may feel free to correct me. :)
Phil

[Marshall Hunt]

I'm positive that it was written horosho -- I don't know if that is correct
grammar or not, but it was written by a native Russian (born and raised
there) who is very fluent in both Russian and English, so I trust her. ;-).
Thanks for the help.

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[Roman Sotnikov]

Hi,

I think that in the above two postings the transcription and transliteration
of
the Russian phrases are mixed.

If I write a message in Russian with Latin letters to Russians, I'll choose
Marshall's variant,
however, when trying to give the pronunciation , Philip's variant is
certainly to be used.

Privet,
Roman Sotnikov.

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[David Lloyd-Jones]

"Philip ALR" <saph...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> are you sure it's not 'u menya fsyo khorosho?' but anyway, it means
> "everything is well with me. i'm bored without you"

Surely the translation would be "I'm OK, you're not."

Looked at this way, it would be a reasonable bet that the English was the
original, and the Russian version is a typically lame translation of the
type you get when asking native speakers to translate an epigram.

-dlj.

[Philip ALR]

how do you figure? wouldn't you translate 'bez tebya' 'without you?' and
'skuchayu' 'am bored'?
Phil

[and...@nospam.chemie.fu-berlin.de]

Philip ALR <saph...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> how do you figure? wouldn't you translate 'bez tebya' 'without you?' and
> 'skuchayu' 'am bored'?
> Phil

> David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
>>
>> > are you sure it's not 'u menya fsyo khorosho?' but anyway, it means
>> > "everything is well with me. i'm bored without you"
>>
>> Surely the translation would be "I'm OK, you're not."
>>
>> Looked at this way, it would be a reasonable bet that the English was the
>> original, and the Russian version is a typically lame translation of the
>> type you get when asking native speakers to translate an epigram.
>>
>> -dlj.

The original phrase is perfectly fine, and in proper Russian.
It means "I'm fine. I miss you". "skuchat'" also means "to miss someone".

Finally, I don't think there is a standard way for phonetic transcription
of Cyrillic characters to Latin ones, so both variants go.

Ivan

[David Lloyd-Jones]

Adrian (or Ivan) and Philip have written good replies below. If
Adrian's/Ivan's translation is correct then my original post is totally
wrong.

This, however, does not vitiate my original point about translations in
general; nor does it give Philip a reason to crow. My "You're not OK" is a
perfectly sensible translation of "I'm bored with you." The secret of a
tender steak is a sharp knife.

-dlj.

<and...@nospam.chemie.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message
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> Philip ALR <saph...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > how do you figure? wouldn't you translate 'bez tebya' 'without you?' and
> > 'skuchayu' 'am bored'?
> > Phil
>
> > David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> >>

> >> > are you sure it's not 'u menya fsyo khorosho?' but anyway, it means
> >> > "everything is well with me. i'm bored without you"
> >>
> >> Surely the translation would be "I'm OK, you're not."
> >>
> >> Looked at this way, it would be a reasonable bet that the English was
the
> >> original, and the Russian version is a typically lame translation of
the
> >> type you get when asking native speakers to translate an epigram.
> >>
> >> -dlj.
>

[Philip ALR]

except 'bez' means 'without' not 'with', the original message didn't
say, 'ya s toboi skuchayu'. but whatever, no big deal, as long as the
person who asked the question was helped, hehe :)
Phil

David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
>
> Adrian (or Ivan) and Philip have written good replies below. If
> Adrian's/Ivan's translation is correct then my original post is totally
> wrong.
>
> This, however, does not vitiate my original point about translations in
> general; nor does it give Philip a reason to crow. My "You're not OK" is a
> perfectly sensible translation of "I'm bored with you." The secret of a
> tender steak is a sharp knife.
>
> -dlj.
>
> <and...@nospam.chemie.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message
> news:8vggk1$sg4$1...@uns-a.ucl.ac.uk...
> > Philip ALR <saph...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> > > how do you figure? wouldn't you translate 'bez tebya' 'without you?' and
> > > 'skuchayu' 'am bored'?
> > > Phil
> >
> > > David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> > >>

> > >> > are you sure it's not 'u menya fsyo khorosho?' but anyway, it means
> > >> > "everything is well with me. i'm bored without you"
> > >>
> > >> Surely the translation would be "I'm OK, you're not."
> > >>
> > >> Looked at this way, it would be a reasonable bet that the English was
> the
> > >> original, and the Russian version is a typically lame translation of
> the
> > >> type you get when asking native speakers to translate an epigram.
> > >>
> > >> -dlj.
> >

[Sean Meighan]

This translation is confusing to most of you. skuchau has two meanings, it
can mean bored or miss. The correct translation for this phrase is

Literal is

"I am ok. I without you, miss "

or

"I am ok. I without you, miss you"

or

"I am ok. I miss you"

Paka

Lilia Popova (Kharkov, Ukraine) now living in San Jose, Ca.
www.meighan.net/alexander

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