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Дайте Нефть Из Баку 'tis alright, keeps my Latin from rusting.
Here's mine:
Без труда ничего не растет, только сорняки.
Bez truda ničego ne rastet, tol'ko sornjaki.
Here's mine:
Без труда ничего не растет, только сорняки.
Bez truda ničego ne rastet, tol'ko sornjaki.
Sophia Jill OK, I haven't the foggiest notion of the translation, but I would guess that the quote is in one of the Central Asian languages that are commonly written in Cyrillic. Uzbek? Kazakh? Azeri? Somewhere in the same geographic area?
Arief Wibowo Don't worry, Jill Sophia, I know this is the first time you joined us, and I don't want to spook you away 
Arief Wibowo I only know up to truda=worker
[Bez] worker [ničego] [ne] [rastet], [tol'ko] [sornjaki]
[Bez] worker [ničego] [ne] [rastet], [tol'ko] [sornjaki]
Sophia Jill *grin* No problem. That's one of the main reasons I joined Omniglot Fan Club -- to learn something new about languages every day. (The other reason being all the great people here!)
Дайте Нефть Из Баку Nope, just good ol' Russian. 
I've used the scientific translitteration, so maybe that's what is confusing you. "Ja" is "ya" and č is ch.
And Arief, "truda" isn't "worker" but you're close.
I've used the scientific translitteration, so maybe that's what is confusing you. "Ja" is "ya" and č is ch.And Arief, "truda" isn't "worker" but you're close.
Sophia Jill Hmmm.... so just from general Indo-European linguistic convention, I gather "ne" indicates negation of something?
Arief Wibowo Hmm... If I am really close about the truda=worker,
and ne is negation,
and rastet is a verb...
[Bez] (worker) [ničego] doesn't/don't work, [tol'ko] [sornjaki]
and ne is negation,
and rastet is a verb...
[Bez] (worker) [ničego] doesn't/don't work, [tol'ko] [sornjaki]
Christian James Meredith Bez = without, ne = not, "tol'ko" is some sort of important often-used word (maybe "so" or "that" or something that reappears a lot?)
Christian James Meredith Actually I might be able to - "tol'ko" I'm pretty sure means something like "that much", at least in *A* slavic language.
Дайте Нефть Из Баку "Rastet" is the verb (infinitive: rastit'). It's related to "rost/rosta", which I think is one of those wonderful panslavic words that span from the Balkans to the Pacific Ocean.
Дайте Нефть Из Баку Yes, "bez" (without) goes with the genitive. From a certain point of view "tol'ko" is related to "that much", but I wouldn't say they're similar.
Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström "Without" governs the genitive?
Without work nothing does not grow, only_
Without work nothing does not grow, only_
Дайте Нефть Из Баку Victor more or less got it. That's the English sentence I translated into Russian.
Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström No, Arief, I stole "rastet" for a language of mine, to mean the opposite, "destroy". 
Arief Wibowo Eh wait, did Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström win?
(Дайте Нефть Из Баку said "Victor more or less got it. That's the English sentence I translated into Russian.")
(Дайте Нефть Из Баку said "Victor more or less got it. That's the English sentence I translated into Russian.")
Дайте Нефть Из Баку I'm sorry, Arief, we always get entangled in these discussions when it's dinner time for you.
Arief Wibowo Дайте Нефть Из Баку, no worries
In fact, my endless love towards food have won me at least two rounds here
In fact, my endless love towards food have won me at least two rounds here
Дайте Нефть Из Баку Yes, "except" might work, too. Tol'ko = only.
The point goes to Victor. For everyone else, here's a .gif of a man trying to kill the ground with an explosive sledgehammer: http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/3/5/3/193353.gif?v=1
The point goes to Victor. For everyone else, here's a .gif of a man trying to kill the ground with an explosive sledgehammer: http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/3/5/3/193353.gif?v=1
Arief Wibowo Дайте Нефть Из Баку: New proverb: with less effort to work nothing grows, and you will be thrown off the ground along with your sledgehammer
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