Mar 28, 2015 04:27
9 yrs ago
Russian term

Нудный - это тот, кому проще дать, чем объяснить, почему не хочешь

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I know what this means, and I am well aware of the sexual subterfuge here. I can translate and explain what this is about. I have the big picture. What I don't have yet is a snazzy, natural way of saying it in English that would match the soundbitey quality of the original. Maybe there isn't any, or maybe there is. Let's find out.

Any opinions are welcome and appreciated, but please do not insult my intelligence by giving me explanations of what this is about or any clumsy verbatim translations. I would be most interested to hear from true natives and equivalents, such as myself. We all know who they are. Thank you all for trying.

Et alors, as the French say, a bore is he who....

Discussion

The Misha (asker) Mar 30, 2015:
Thanks, Rikka Vy budete smeyatsya, as they used to say in Odessa, but this actually has nothing to do with what it seems to be on the surface of it, at least not from my end. I can't tell it here, in the public forum, for risk of being chased out of town, so if you really want to know you'll have to contact me in person.
rikka Mar 30, 2015:
i'll water this nearly exclusively male gathering here with my own horrid suggestion: a bore (or whatever it is) is a dude who's easier to shag than to to tell him off..
Although I suspect there might be some wishful thinking going on here, gentlemen...
Evgeny Artemov (X) Mar 28, 2015:
Don't know nothing, really. :-) Done my best in the circumstances, in good faith.
No shot of my own, sorry: Uebungen for folks' personal enjoyments put me off somehow. Sorry again.
The Misha (asker) Mar 28, 2015:
Well, Evgeny, how do you know I am not him? Shutka.
Yuri Larin Mar 28, 2015:
(?) X (a (?) nudnik) is a person with whom it’s less work [‘trouble’, ‘hassle’] to screw him [and get it over with], than to explain why you’d rather not.
Evgeny Artemov (X) Mar 28, 2015:
Your man is one Oscar Milde then (as he calls himself). As devious. He claims he cracks out soundbites and slogans at 5 bucks apiece. Try here: http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?a=56&&UserName=Oscar Milde or mildeiswilde )( gmail.com.
The Misha (asker) Mar 28, 2015:
Many thanks, El oso Your second suggestion gave me an idea to make it a play around "lesser evil," only it's not evil but something, something... Like I said before, there is a whole bunch of alternatives I could consider here.
The Misha (asker) Mar 28, 2015:
Evgeny, I am not "up against it" in any way, shape or form. I am simply trying to find an interpretation of this that fits well for my own devious purposes. If I don't, I will reword, rephrase or use something else. I am under no constraint here. Thank you for taking the time.
Evgeny Artemov (X) Mar 28, 2015:
It's not 'нудный', it's 'зануда'.
Snazzy/expressive you may get, impressive no. (Been there. Falls flat all the time.)
Where are you up against it? I mean, how bad do you think you need it as snazzy it used to be?
El oso Mar 28, 2015:
In case you insist on retaining the bore here is another idea:
Having sex / having a quickie/ with a bore might turn out to be not as boring /as lingering/ as trying to discourage him.
El oso Mar 28, 2015:
Since I don't qualify as a true native.. instead of putting up an answer, I will give you an opinion (if you please):
I don't think that the word "bore" is actually a good choice here, because "зануда" in the given context is more like a pain in the neck, in the sense that he will not leave you alone not matter how hard you try to talk some sense to him or whatever... You are going to have to give in eventually, so why waste time playing the touch-me-not? :) That said here is my version:
Swiftly yielding to the sexual advances of a pain in the neck might just as well spare you (a girl) a great deal of pain in the *ss (a bit extensive and somewhat racy, I agree, but one does one’s best! Cheers! :)

Proposed translations

11 hrs
Selected

A really tedious guy is the one/guy you lay so as to convince him that you don't feel like it :)

Many years ago, a really hot girl named Cynthia once told me (verbatim): the dude was so fuckin' frisky and tedious... like... at the end, like, I had to fuck my way out of fucking him...

Well put, I think...
Note from asker:
Michael, this may well be the gem I am looking for: a bore is someone you may want to screw just to get out of screwing him, or just to have it over with. Or her, naturally - one needs to be politically correct and afford opportunity equally. I take my hat off to the lady's wisdom and way with words. Cheers and thanks.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, Michael"
+1
4 hrs

a bore would be someone with whom it would be easier to go to bed with than explain why you do not

want it

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Note added at 11 hrs (2015-03-28 16:13:42 GMT)
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Sorry, extra with. The second one is redundant.
Peer comment(s):

agree Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
2 hrs
Thank you.
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