Russ 👎🏼

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Наверное, вторая часть в вашем предложении по - русски звучит так: мало людей могло (могли) понять его?

I don't expect Uly to comment on every single post. He does reply when he can.

Русс, то есть вы не ждёте ответа на свой вопрос?понимаю)) .

Мой вариант: He was speaking quitly, so few people understood him.
few - это значит мало.
a few - немного.
Разница небольшая, но есть :)

Решила не будить лиха)))

Thank you, Russ. The fact is that Uly was in Miami all day yesterday and couldn’t “come to work.”

Your sentence is too wordy, and it gives the wrong message: it sounds like he purposely spoke softly so that only a certain number of people could understand him.

Thanks Uly, it's wordy, but it's not completely incorrect? It might carry the wrong/ambiguous impression but it's correct over all, right?

Zoya, yes, I didn't expect mandatory ответа на свой вопрос. It's a voluntarily project. No one owes anything to anyone here. People come and go. No one had committed to correct my errors on every post. If someone does - I'm thankful, if not - that's fine.

Don’t mind her - she has psychological problems and complexes. She must be an only child - she feels like she’s entitled to everything. Imagine being MARRIED to her! 😳

Russ, if it was correct and conveyed the same message as the Russian, I wouldn’t have said anything. But it says something totally different, unless I’M the one who doesn’t understand the Russian original.

Don't be harsh on Zoya. She had signed a contract with you, she paid you a lot of money for the classes BUT you are not responding to all her posts. That's not good. Please issue 50% refund back to Zoya's account.

I just did))) Look at my latest note)))

1. Русская фраза построенна весьма безграмотно. Должно быть что-то типа:
"Он говорил так тихо, что его мало кто понимал."
2. Исходная фраза не дает ни малейшего намека на то, говорил ли он тихо намерено или по каким-либо иным причинам, допустим, вследствии дефектов речи.

Exactly, Alex, which is why I don’t like Russ’s translation - it sounds deliberate.

Russ, I'll say one thing for Zoya - when her translations are incorrect, she deletes them or changes them. Yours just stick around forever!

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