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Arroinua Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Please, need help with translation!

Maybe you are familiar with term of "double negative"? The case is that in russian language "double negative" is in common use and it is grammatically correct. Can someone explain how to translate double negative from russian to english. For example, how it would be in english: "? ?? ???? ?? ?????? ?????" or "? ?? ???? ?? ??????? ?????"?
  

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arroinua "? ???? ??????

— Fivejedjon

  • arroinua "?
  • ????
  • ??????
  • " My Russian is pretty pathetic, so do not take this as a definitive answer: I cannot (can't) do this.
  • My limited understanding is that the Russian double negative reinforces the negation.
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arroinua"? ?? ???? ?? ?????? ?????"
My Russian is pretty pathetic, so do not take this as a definitive answer: I cannot (can't) do this. My limited understanding is that the Russian double negative reinforces the negation. Although very informal English can do the same, this is not acceptable in standard English.In standard English, a double nega
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The double negative has existed in historical versions of English. Double negatives are found in Chaucer and Shakespeare, and no one thought that it was strange or ungrammatical.

Modern dialects of English also employ the double negative (eg. I can't get no satisfaction. - a very popular song by the Rolling Stones).

If you translate your Russian sentences as best you can, we can
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