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My ex speaks Ukrainian.
She says it says
"I don't <something> you", where <something> is the middle word you're unsure of. She doesn't know what the middle word is. Apparently, "it's impossible for the first, second and third letter to follow eachother.. it can't be said. It's like 'btd', as an english equivalent". Her opinion is "the Us with tails shouldn't be there" (in the middle word)
Why is someone writing things to you in Ukrainian if you don't speak Ukrainian?
I hope I helped a little.

My ex also knows about Church Slavonic and Russian.
It's not in either of them, she's said.
I'm going to go with spelling errors.
Also, Church Slavonic apparently only changes the way you pronounce words.
It's possibly in Russian, "but it's not spelt correctly no matter what it is"
(I realise what I'm writing is somewhat contradictory in calling something a "language" - just go with me on this, I know very little, I'm just relaying what she's saying in an effort to help).

Last edited by jb (2007-09-23 7:28 am)

Or maybe it is slang/abbreviation laced Ukrainian IM gibberish, typed thumbs-only on a cellphone. I've seen what IM punks do to English. I can't even begin to imagine how they would butcher other languages.

Last edited by test (2007-09-23 2:50 pm)

evilproducer wrote:

I was poking around and found this site. I hope it helps.

It didn't help, but thank you for the link. It looks like a good site for translations.

resedit wrote:

test wrote:

Maybe it is not Ukrainian? Could it be Church Slavonic?

Or maybe it is Ukrainian and whoever wrote it just can't spell for crap. That problem can't be unique to English writers.

wats wron wit engris wreeters?

Good one.

Robert B. wrote:

It says, "Opium, you are a hot piece of ass."

I would bet money that it doesn't say that.

Got a scanner, or perhaps a digital camera to take a picture of the text?

I think says "I want to have you like an animal

Can you copy and paste it?

By the way, I'd take jb's ex's word. The closest I best come up with in dealing with Russian pronunciation is btsstachattsme which from my brief experience dealing with Origa lyrics is short some vowel sounds but then again I am far from an expert. I don't even consider myself fluent in my native language, English.

ScifiterX wrote:

Can you copy and paste it?

It's hand written.

jb wrote:

She says the middle words means "sufficient".
So, the sentence is something like "I don't sufficient you"?
Perhaps it's "I'm not sufficient for you" or something like that…who knows.
Anyway, that's with some juggling of the letters you suggested. That was the only word she could see fitting.
If you need further help, let me know.

Okay. Thanks. Tell your ex thanks a lot.

I don't understand why they would write that, but I guess it's better than "I don't like you". I guess it fits in with the rest of the card which is affectionate.

As to why it was written in Ukrainian. I can't go into details but I can see why they would not want me to understand it right a way. I had to leave town for work, I will not return tell December at which point they will no longer be there. We were not in a position to act on any feelings. Saying something like that might have started a conversation we shouldn't have had, given the circumstances.

Update:

Although I didn't get an answer about the spelling. I was told that the phrase as a whole is meant to express something along the lines of,

- all the things I have are not enough, because somebody is not there -

I am assuming that I am the "somebody", I don't know if something was lost in translation or if they were making a point by not using "you".

Not sure were I go from here, but thank you to everyone that helped.

opium wrote:

p.s. The Rolling Stones are not better then The Beatles.

My sig isn't meant to be a serious musical critique.
That being said - I generally enjoy the stones more than I enjoy the Beatles.
Except for all the pop covers the stones did early in their career before they really came into their own.

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