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Ответить я не успел- Гесер бодро сказал:
-Ну и прекрасно! Значит, через сорок минут.
Очень хотелось обозвать Гесера дешевым позером - конечно, положив вначале трубку. Но я промолчал. Во-первых, шеф мог услышать мои слова без всякого телефона. Во-вторых - уж кем-кем, а дешевым позером он не был. Просто предпочитал экономить время. Если я собирался сказать, что буду через сорок минут, - к чему терять время и меня выслушивать.

Before I had time to answer, Gesar went on cheerily. "Well, that's excellent! See you in forty minutes, then."
I really felt like calling Gesar a cheap poser - after I hung up, of course. But I kept my mouth shut. In the first place, the boss could hear what I said without any telephone. And in the second, whatever else he might be, he was no cheap poser. He simply didn't like wasting time. If I was about to say I'd be there in forty minutes, what point was there in listening to me say it?

[verb infinitive] [pronoun] [negating particle] [verb past tense] ... That's not.. that translation is different. [proper noun] [adverb] [verb past tense]:
[interjection] [conjunction] [adjective]! [interjection here used as 'well then'] [prepositional phrase (preposition, number adjective?, noun)]
[adverb] [verb reflexive] [verb infinitive] [noun accusative] [adjective instrumental] [noun instrumental] - [interjection] [verb... something. progressive? gerund] [adverb] [noun accusative]. [coord. conj] [pronoun] [verb past tense]. [adverb/stock phrase 'Firstly'] [noun] [verb] [verb infinitive] [poss. pronoun] [noun plural] [prepositional phrase (preposition, adjective genitive, noun genitive)]. [adverb/stock phrase 'Secondly'] [stock phrase(particle, pronoun)] [coord. conj] [adjective instrumental] [noun instrumental] [pronoun] [negating particle] [verb past tense]. [adverb] [verb past tense] [verb infinitive] [noun]. [coord. conj] [pronoun] [verb past tense reflexive] [verb infinitive], [coord. conj] [verb future] [prepositional phrase (preposition, numerical adjective, noun)], [prepositional phrase (preposition, pronoun dative)] [verb infinitive] [noun] [conjunction] [poss. pronoun] [verb infinitive]

I should actually slow down on the whole vocabulary adding and preposition review some. I know enough words by now that making sentences of them and reviewing and so on wouldn't go amiss, rather than trying to cram everything in my head at once and learn at a great rate of knots. I i guess, too, if today's slow, I can do a lot of that.

I am tired today. I had a screaming nightmare where, when I woke up, the only reason I knew I hadn't actually screamed in my sleep was because my throat didn't feel raw. Bad dreams about family, about my grandfather (I called home this morning, he's fine. Stupid brain), waking up to all the rain and gray, and now I am just tired. And if I have to hear one more goddamn word out of anyone's mouth saying that Daniel Tosh's comment in response to the heckler (not reprinted here for triggers) was an appropriate response or funny, I am going to throatpunch someone. I had a whole series of thoughts on that yesterday, today it's too tired, fuck you, throatpunch.

House progress continues slowly but hopefully. I have game tonight and I don't want to go unless I get some more energy reserves from some-goddamn-where. Time's doing that slippy thing again where it can't possibly be as late in the month as I think it is. I'm in a goddamn Steve Miller Band song.

Oh well. Checked in with home, I have some stuff to do, stuff to keep me busy writing wise, language wise, work wise. None of it very complicated. If I can manage to keep doing one thing at a time, I should be able to get through today.

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Ответить я не успел - more literally, I didn't manage to answer. With wonky word order. So it's not a VERY different translation?

*cuddles* Stupid nightmares. *puts Incredibles-style bubble from MY dneam around EVERYBODY.*

Not very, just, the English version adds a time component which is entirely missing from the Russian, if I have it right? Which is interesting but could also trip me up if I start looking for time components in the original Russian.

... *giggles tiredly*

WORD re: Daniel Tosh. I had to restrain myself by creating a sort of test on my Facebook wherein I posted a link to the story and waited to see who proved themselves defriend-worthy. I just lacked the energy to find out how many horrible people I actually know.

I'm just glad that, were I to work up the energy to say something, most people who read me LJ-only are too lazy to come over to DW and leave comments, thereby preserving my illusion that I mostly know decent human beings. But oh do I hear you. There are reasons I haven't said anything.

Yeah, I just do not have the energy to go on a defriending spree that would likely include some family members. The people I've said things to are generally younger than me, and college students, so I know they're at least open to being educated and maybe don't know any better.

More than you want to, I think is the way this works. I just. In what world is what he said an acceptable response? And how the fuck is it not criminally negligent? That's exactly the kind of thing people point to as an excuse to why they did a dumb/illegal/asinine/criminal/sadistic thing.

The ridiculous irony to me is that now he's saying he didn't say exactly what she says he did. I couldn't tell if he was trying to be deeply, deeply ironic in a way that's almost funny if you squint, in that "ha ha I hate people" way. I suspect not.

... What is this, the comedian's version of "It was a social experiment"?

Apparently! I just find it deeply ironic that people's arguments boil down to "Well she was asking for it (by heckling him)" and "That's not how it happened I swear!"

Facepalm forever.

Ye-ah. "She asked for it" is possibly the uberworst argument to use in this situation. And I say this as someone freely admits I wouldn't have done what she did, if only because I didn't and still don't expect better out of that guy. I bet that's totally how it happened, no one asks to be threatened with rape, and he's still a douchebag.

Yeah, I wouldn't have said it, but that doesn't mean I think she shouldn't have. Someone on my FB flist (male, of course, around age 19-20) claimed that, even though rape jokes aren't funny and Tosh is an asshole, and even though he understands about not feeding rape culture, he still thinks she had "no right" (his exact words) to say anything during a comedy performance.

That kind of thinking baffles me. A comedy performance is probably second only to a rock concert for people shouting things at the performer, and from the extended story, Tosh even claims he'd solicited suggestions from the audience about topics that are taboo but funny, and "rape" was the answer he got - making this woman's reply make even MORE sense, because he'd already opened the dialogue to the audience. I just. Even if what she'd done had been far ruder than a simple "that's not funny", she still would have had the right. That's how free speech works.

Pretty much. Just because I wouldn't have done what she did doesn't mean I don't think she should have, I wouldn't have gone in the first place. He's a douchebag who encourages people to grope and abuse women, this doesn't surprise me a bit. But she's not me, and from what I hear she didn't know who he was in the first place. Poor, poor woman.

And yes. Exactly. We are all free to speak our minds, which means we are also free to respond to other people speaking their minds. And when you speak your mind to other people, that means you get to deal with the consequences. In this case, someone was hurt and offended by what you said, and that's her right. And, yeah. If he opened the dialogue up to the audience, he's going to have to deal with what the audience says. That's what you do. If the poor bastards who were performing improv theatre acts managed to roll with my suggestion for "games you play" of "Russian roulette" (and I'm sure they were fairly shocked to hear that coming out of the mouth of a twelve year old) he can fucking well deal with someone saying "Dude not funny"

Except he can't. Because he's a jackass.