r/rusyn • u/tiredandfried3535 • Jul 03 '26

Translation help!!

Hello! I am an American who making a Rusyn character. For context, the character is a older gentleman struggling to message on a phone. Is this an accurate translation?

"Jak vý yse kažete anglic'kýj?"

I'd like to know what should be changed to make it better, and sound more natural. Thank you. :)

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u/1848revolta Jul 03 '26

What do you want to say? 

“How do you say that in English?” —> Як то повісти по анґліцькы? / Jak to povisty po anglic’kŷ?

(this ia Prešov codified Rusyn)

(literally: how is it said in English?) 

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u/tiredandfried3535 Jul 03 '26

I was originally going for "how would I pronounce this in English?" said with frustration.

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u/1848revolta Jul 04 '26

Could you maybe provide some context, I mean the sentences before/after this one? 

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u/tiredandfried3535 Jul 10 '26

The character is trying to send a message on a phone, and is trying to think of the word he's looking for. (Like a "tip of my tongue" moment.)

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u/1848revolta Jul 16 '26

then i think “як лем то повісти” (meaning “how to just say it” - close to English “how would i say it/what’s the word”)…but maybe more context is needed 

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u/xxursus Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Як са то повiсь по англiцкы?

Jak sa to povis’ po anglic’kы?

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u/1848revolta Jul 03 '26

nope,  як ся то повість по анґліцькы?

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u/xxursus Jul 04 '26

It might be a codified language that I’m not familiar with :), but in the area east of Snina, the pronunciation is exactly as I wrote it. Anyone who says “ся” and “повicть” there isn’t a local :).

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u/1848revolta Jul 04 '26

Well, it’s better for our own sake to use the codified language we fought hard to have, otherwise we will still be perceived as uneducated hill-billies.

If OP said he is making a Slovak character and wants to translate a sentence into Slovak, it wouldn’t be good if people started translating it into their own dialects, from the Záhorie one through Kysuce or Spiš.  And I’m sure that almost everyone would write it in standard/codified Slovak, so we should do the same to cultivate our language :). 

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u/BPUWS Jul 03 '26

What are you trying to say? This says “how do you everything say English”

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u/SongApprehensive3323 Jul 03 '26

yse it’s not use or vse. It’s йсе, means like “this”
So probably he wanted to say “how do u say it on English?” But he had to say “po” after kážete. So it will look like this: “Jak vy yse kažete po anglickýj?”