Edited. I give up on translation.

[William769]

From now on and forever I will be referring to trump as comrade trump. Make no mistake that's what he is.

I will use it here, I will use it in public, I will use it where ever his name is mentioned.

[unc70]

1. Check your Russian

Capitalize Trump and you will get a better translation in Google Translate or whatever. My Russian is rather rusty; its been nearly fifty years since college classes.

[William769]

4. I have.

I am only as good as the google translator.

[BainsBane]

8. It's trump as a verb, not the name

You would write it phonetically, but that requires knowing the Cyrillic aphabet

[William769]

12. Thanks. I guess I'm SOL.

[unc70]

10. Товарищ Трамп

From Google Translate. Trump, not trump

[furtheradu]

26. Looks like "T pawn" to me. Hmmm..

Those rusky rascals are clever, huh?

[flyingfysh]

27. That looks like it would be pronounced "Tramp"

[DFW]

35. Not all languages pronounce their vowels like we do.

If the Cyrillic alphabet is all you have to work with, and you're dealing with someone whose only language is Russian, Трамп is about as close as you're gonna get.

[flyingfysh]

38. I took three years of Russian

They don't have anything that would sound like the English pronunciation. Other languages often pronounce well known proper names very differently than we would. If you take the customary Russian version of Alaska and imitate the sounds, you get "Alyahska".

[BainsBane]

11. Трамп

is what I got by writing out his full name. Looks closer anyway.

[William769]

13. Edited. Thanks.

[BainsBane]

14. NO, keep the first word you originally had

That one I posted substitutes for the second.

[BainsBane]

5. comrade looks right

I don't see how that second word comes out as Trump, though it's been decades since I studied Russian.

[PsychoBabble]

2. Whoa. I need to work on my Russian.

Feeling more and more like "Martha" character on "The Americans" FX show ....

[riversedge]

6. then there is this translation

??trump friend???

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товарищ козырем Edit

товарищ козырем

tovarishch kozyrem

trump friend

[DFW]

23. Watch for perils in literal translations

козырь is literally "trump" like in a card in a bridge game. You can't call a German guy named Herr Schuhmacher "Mr. Cobbler" in English just because his name translates out to "makes of shoes."

[lunatica]

40. True that. Spanish literal translation of Gore's name is

Sangriento which means pretty much what you might think if you take a moment to think about it. Bloody.

Internet language translation is an interesting activity but if you don't know both languages the results can be hilarious in the most unintended ways.

But I find it useful for translating phrases or single words when I process documentation and receipts for travel reimbursements for the Faculty and students in UC Berkeley who travel to every corner of the planet.

[riversedge]

3. hi mate....

had to admit-needed to look it up.....

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привет товарищи Translated To English
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привет товарищи
English

1. Hi mates


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[William769]

7. ...

[DFW]

22. That would also pass for "Greetings, comrades" though the Russian "greetings" actually is singular

I remember seeing editions of "Pravda" back in 1968, when Brezhnyev was preparing to invade Czechoslovakia, but keeping them in the dark with letters of "comradely" advice. The "open letters" on page one of "Pravda" would always start with "Дорогие товарищи!" or "Dear comrades!"

[MFM008]

9. maggot

easier for me to spell......

[BannonsLiver]

15. +1. Simple and accurate.

[MFM008]

20. Liver!

Good to see you.

[northoftheborder]

28. !

[longship]

16. Trump would more properly translated phonetically.

Since it is a proper name.

The correct spelling might be "Трамп", or maybe "Трyмп". I think the first as it is phonetically closer.

[DFW]

21. Since Russian does not have our "short u" sound....

Трамп is closer to our pronunciation ("Trahmp&quot than Трyмп ("Troomp&quot .

[longship]

24. I would agree.

[DFW]

34. Trying to explain vowel sounds to languages that don't have them is awkward.

Russian is easy, as most vowels are always pronounced the same, with the exception of the stressed "o" as opposed to an unstressed "o." The word for "road" or "way" would be transliterated into English as "Doroga," but as the stress is on the middle syllable, a Russian would say "dah-RAW-gah." Trying to explain foreign vowel sounds to a Russian is more complicated.

The worst in Europe s trying to explain the Dutch "ui" to anyone who isn't Dutch. Like "kruider (herbs)." The best thing is go to a Dutch language youtube lesson or something. Go farther afield, and you get weirder stuff. If you ever meet a member of the Ibo tribe of Nigeria (probably a quarter the taxi drivers in Washington DC or Boston), be sure to pronounce both vowels three times as long as you would in any other language. "eee-bōōō" Not only will you be pronouncing it like they do, you'll get the biggest smile from a taxi driver that you've ever had, probably coupled with a need to explain how you know this if you've never been to Nigeria.

[longship]

36. I took a year of Russian nearly 5 decades ago

I remember little about it except the Cyrillic alphabet and pronunciation, which kind of sticks with one.

[DFW]

37. Russians are everywhere these days. It's easier to keep up than it used to be.

Of course, living in Germany, I run into Russians almost on a daily basis. My trouble is, when I was taking Russian in college, there was very little contact with normal Russians. The Soviet Union was still very much in place, and they didn't let their citizens out much unless on state business. By the time I finally made it to Russia, they stared at me like I was Rip van Winkle, because I knew no modern Soviet era slang. My Russian to them sounded like Victorian English would sound to us, and more than one person asked me where I had been these last hundred years.

That's nothing compared to what happened to another guy I knew at college. A classics major who looked like a hippie from 1967 Haight-Ashbury (but was really from a rich Pennsylvania family) took a hiking trip through Greece one summer. He knew no modern Greek, but was an expert in ancient Greek, so that's what he spoke when traveling there. He said in some of the more remote villages, people treated him very reverently, as he resembled paintings and icons of some local saints, and spoke in the same manner.

[longship]

39. How fun!

BTW, I took Russian at Michigan State from Prof. Nazaroff in 1966-1967. It's been a long time. But she was a great professor. No, I don't remember much of it because I've not used it since -- just the alphabet and pronunciation.

My best.

[Phentex]

41. But isn't Troomp as in TroompaLoompa more accurate?

How do the Russians say orange man?

[DFW]

42. Feed that into a Google translator

You'll probably get the Russian for "deliverer of citrus fruit"

[wcmagumba]

17. Deniska Petrov

This is the name given to Donald Trump by a website called The Russian Name Generator...
http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/869#.WRSgI_QrJD9

[niyad]

18. comrade scum, comrade lying pervert, comrade asshole.. . . . .

yes, I will now include comrade every time I refer to that disgusting waste of resources.

[lpbk2713]

30. Comrade Golden Shower

...

[niyad]

43. darn!!! forgot that one!!

[riversedge]

19. thats ok--still love yah.

have a nice day.

[spiderpig]

25. Me too, William

It's been 50 years since I took high school Russian, when one of the students wrote the school paper complaining that we didn't teach German in WWII and what were we doing now?

[Voltaire2]

29. It diminishes the importance of the Russian scandal

when we frame it in the red baiting terminology of the past.

Putin is not a communist. He is a right wing authoritarian. Russia is not a communist state, it is a right wing authoritarian oligarchy.

We are in peril here, not from some Cold War era communist threat, but from our own corrupt rightwing authoritarian party and its corrupt rightwing authoritarian leader.

The rise of neo fascism as a global political force is very real and very serious. We need to be clear about the nature of the threat.

[JHB]

31. "Comrade" is a communist thing. I use "Kremlin Don"...

The whole "comrade" thing was to remove titles because Communist Party doctrine said that everyone was equal, despite the way the Soviets actually worked.

There's nothing about Trump and and his PutiPals that think anyone else is equal to them. Kremlin Don wants to be a Czar.

[karynnj]

32. I won't -- he may like the authoritarian Trump, but he is not a communist

What I never got before was it was not the authoritarian dictators, but the suppression of the church and socialism alone that the right wing hated about communism.

Personally, I think that name calling - right or left - destroys the ability to persuade anyone not already on your side. Think about how likely you would be to consider an argument made by someone who called Obama Obummer - or worse.

[pansypoo53219]

33. tzump. trumcccp. or my grandpa would have called him trumpski.