Irina Mayorovaadded a comment 8 years ago
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⁌ ULY ⁍asked for translation 8 years ago
How to translate? (ru-en)
А необоснованные обвинения в моей неграмотности меня сейчас ставят в тупик.
User translations (3)
- 1.
However, now I am puzzled/baffled by groundless/unjustified accusations of being illiterate
translation added by grumblerGold ru-en6 - 2.
I'm just flummoxed by the fact that apparently I don't know how to read and write correctly.
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apparently - judging from what you've all told me)
translation added by ⁌ ULY ⁍Gold ru-en4 - 3.
What baffles me are these groundless accusations that I don't know how to speak properly.
translation added by ⁌ ULY ⁍Gold ru-en4
Discussion (9)
⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 8 years ago
¿Baffled or puzzled in the sense that... хммм, может, они все-таки правы -or- вот идиоты-то!
grumbleradded a comment 8 years ago
Во втором, конечно. Не понимаю, как можно обвинять в неграмотности без оснований/доказательств.
Честно говоря, я пытался найти доказательства, но не смог; просто знаю, что так не говорят.
grumbleradded a comment 8 years ago
Зато теперь знаю, как это называется по-научному - "Постпозиция количественного числительного" -
grumbleradded a comment 8 years ago
1. Про "читать и писать" речи не было. "Говорить" - здесь правильнее.
2. Would "allegedly" not be better in this context than "apparently"?
⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 8 years ago
We tend to use allegedly more in terms of something someone did or didn't DO, not about an implied quality. So you could say "I'm flummoxed by the fact that allegedly I stole money out of the cash register."
⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 8 years ago
Так что неграмотный относится скорее к речи?
grumbleradded a comment 8 years ago
Well, the topic was "так не говорят". It's more general than writing as disregards possible spelling and punctuation errors. Т.е. неправильная конструкция/выражение.
"Неграмотный" covers both. Если человек говорит/выражается неграмотно, трудно ожидать, что он пишет грамотно.
⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 8 years ago
Thank you for the explanation. It's funny that in English we don't have a succinct way of saying this with one word; we say "doesn't know how to speak properly" or "doesn't know how to read and write properly" etc.