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There are no word “srabota” in Russian. Such word probably is from from one of other Slavic languages of Western Europe.
by ex3ndr 7y ago
There are no word “srabota” in Russian. Such word probably is from from one of other Slavic languages of Western Europe.
- ivalm 7y agoPerhaps it was supposed to be srabotala, which is "it worked" and the "la" is missing from the article...
- IfOnlyYouKnew 7y agoSome Googling says "rabota" ("работа") is Russion for "work". I haven't had luck finding an explanation of how the "s" indicates "done", but I would tend to believe the Times here and suspect it's an issue with romanisation or contraction.
- ex3ndr 7y agoI am Russian. Rabota and srabotalo are very different words. S just a prefix doesn’t mean anything without context.
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoI think they just stripped the last syllable to make it catchy.
- keiferski 7y agoProbably srabotala as the other commenter said. The Russian phrase, which directly translates as “it’s worked... It doesn’t exactly bode well for the NYT if their article is about decoding Russian transmissions and they mistranslate the opening sentence...
- ex3ndr 7y agoSure, but this is most critical word in the whole article and it is translated incorrectly? How so? Do they really spent hours translating and then write incorrect word?
- keiferski 7y agoI interpreted that typo to mean that the Times wasn’t particularly interested in reporting the straight facts, but rather trying to push a particular story they were looking to be true. Ergo minor mistakes like a few less-than-perfectly translated words are irrelevant, especially when the intended audience doesn’t speak Russian to begin with.
- ex3ndr 7y agoThat adds oil to the fire. And I just can’t show it to my parents in Russia. And Russian government can easily destroy arguments in this article. This article is made only for clicks and makes everything just worse.