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The translation of the Facebook wall post seems incorrect. It's also in Russian and not Ukrainian. Here's my go at it: You damn egoist, pick up the phone. Who
by anateus 14y ago
The translation of the Facebook wall post seems incorrect. It's also in Russian and not Ukrainian. Here's my go at it:
You damn egoist, pick up the phone. Who will take care of [your?] mother?! At least sell your source code and fuck off to Costa Rica. The very same paypal will give you 200-300 pieces [I think these might be pills rather than dollars]. Pick up the phone bitch!
Edit: thanks for the corrections, indeed, that would most likely be $200,000-$300,000. Although I'm a native speaker I didn't grow up in Russia so my slang and colloquial language is pretty weak :>
- kalininalex 14y ago200-300 "pieces" = $200,000-$300,000. One "piece" is 1,000, typically applied to money.
- xentronium 14y ago"piece" is a slang word for thousand. You got everything else right. OP mistranslates the comment horribly.
- ptmx 14y agoYeah, the translation in the OP was almost completely wrong; I'm not sure where they got the idea that there was a joke that said "kill yourself". Actually, the depressing thing is that the real comment points even more toward a suicide.
- VMG 14y agoI still don't get what's happening.
- aeontech 14y agoThe real comment sounds like someone knows that Aleksey was suicidal, and says, in order: "Nobody sell this guy any pills" (so he does not kill himself) "You selfish bastard, who's going to take care of mom?" (if you kill yourself) "You could always sell the source code and fuck off to costa rica" (an alternative to killing yourself) "Paypal would pay you couple of hundred thousand for it" (saying that the above-mentioned source code is very valuable) "Pick up the phone bitch" (apparently he is ignoring the phone calls from his worried friends, and they wish him to stop doing so). Does that help?
- strlen 14y agoWhat's going on is that Alexey probably something to run away from, probably monetary: hence "fuck off to Costa Rica" and references to $200,000-$300,000.
- strlen 14y agoI should add that "egoist" in Russian is indeed literally the same word as "egoist" in English (albeit written in Cyrillic), but semantically it is closer to what "selfish" means in modern American English. I think the note should be read as "you selfish person". As far as I understand (I'm a native Russian speaker) in English, selfishness refers more to self-gratification while egoism refers more to acting in rational self-interest.