Ваше благородие (again)...

[alexpgp]

A couple of quiet conversations with colleagues in Houston convinced me that the last line of the refrain in my most recent translation of Ваше благородие is just a little too raw. The singer of:

Не везёт мне в смерти, повезет в любви!

says, basically, that since he's not "lucky at dying," he'll be "lucky at love."

I gave this some thought on the drive home last weekend and came up with an alternative to:

I'm no good at dying, I'll be good in bed!

I think the following is better (and preserves the "ed" at the end of the line), at least for now:

I'm no good at dying, I'll fall'n love instead!

Still trying to work those guitar lessons into my schedule, though. :^)

Cheers...

Comments

[valera.livejournal.com]

I've no luck with death, will be lucky with love.

it is difficult to capture the whole thing in english.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it was easy, it wouldn't be worth talking about at all! :^)

Cheers...

FYI

[silpol.livejournal.com]

if you are still interested in free russian online vocabularies and other material of that kind, there is an online project "Толковый словарь В. Даля ON-LINE" (http://vidahl.agava.ru/). A credits (http://vidahl.agava.ru/credits.htm) section might of some interest in particular - there are link to page (http://saturn.spaceports.com/~vidahl/download.htm) with whole vocabulary HTMLed-then-ZIPed and link to page (http://teneta.rinet.ru/rus/lexica/lex_pro.htm) with collection of other russian vocabularies.

Re: FYI

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pointers. I bought a paper edition of Dal' a few years ago and find it reasonably useful, and also have a version of the dictionary on CD (if memory serves)... or maybe it's some other tolkovyi slovar'.

Cheers...