A couple of weeks ago, I promised to translate into english, for those who don't know russian, Rasputin's phrases which you can hear on Forgotten Shore through two transmitters. And now after a weeks of lazynes I started doing so. There are seven phrases in random order, and in last hour I translated all of them, so here they are, russian original and my english translation.
1. Если, как говорится, грядущие события заранее бросают свою тень, то прошлые события не могут не оставить своих запечатлений позади себя.
If things to come cast their shadows in advance, then past events leave their engravements for sure.
2. Приведён в действие протокол безопасности 863, обнаружены враждебные объекты.
Security protocol 863 initiated, hostile odjects detected.
3. Рассчитай это, вычисли вероятность того.
Calculate this, compute probability of that.
4. Они лишь мясо, зажатое между створками раковины.
They are just a flesh, clutched between flaps of their shells.
5. Нет бессмертия души, так нет и добродетели, а значит всё позволено.
There is no immortality of soul, and no virtue, and this means that everything is allowed.
6. Винить некого, это не их и не наша вина, это несчастие рождения тогда, когда весь мир умирает.
There is no one to blame, not them, not us, it's a misfortune to be born when whole world are dying.
7. Весь порядок природы свидетельствует о прогрессивном продвижении по направлению к высшей жизни.
Whole order of nature point to progressive advancement towards superior life forms.
Edited all my translations into first post.
English
#Destiny
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хорош!
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5 is from Dostoyevsky. 7 is from Plato. Others may have reference too.
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#4 Female Tea bagging?
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Great work pal! (молодца!)
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Thanks. Great post.
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Thanks for the translation.
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Edited by MadRussian0: 8/13/2014 7:59:25 PMI wonder if Rasputin been "isolated" for so long that he has become very intelligent and self aware.
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Rasputin (the one IRL) was known for avoiding death several times. Clever bungie.
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Number 6 makes me feel sad
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I'm sad there wasn't one for "Cool mustache there, Wario, try messing with the mad monk and you'll be sorry yo!"
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Fantastic thread, posts like this are few and far between and deserve plenty of props! Well done!
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Awesome! Thanks
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*just realized the transmissions were Russian* ._.
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Thanks for translating and those messages are spookier. Ahh!
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Great post, thanks for the translations!
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This is the kind of thing I come to this forum for. Too bad threads like this are only 1 in 100. Possibly less.
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Huh, interesting. I love threads like this.
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... Latin sayings sprawled out... Russian Transmissions... Wonder if Bungie will do a version of their own Alien language like klingon lol
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Very cool. I Always wondered what it was saying and now I know. Thank you very much!!
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I found this very interesting. Really good idea!
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Very cool post OP. I wonder if they'll be going the rampant AI route like they have in Halo, which can make for some very cool story directions.
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5, 6, 7 are strong. Thanks for sharing. I started to learn Russian and will have fun to translate the writings on the walls of Old Russia...
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Excellent! I was waiting for some of our Russian friends to translate all of that stuff :D
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That russian computer program doesn't sound like a computer program...
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Good post!
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In Soviet Russia, game translates you!