Let's Play Atomic Heart Part 4 - What a Jerk 

Lol, he's a hoarder

English has nuances and emphasis on words. I love you can be said breezily or desperate: Emphasis on I. Or romantically, emphasis on love. Or convincing emphasis on you. Every language has the same nuances. But thank you for your explanation of the Russian nuances :)

@@micheler4120 I mean it has it's own nuances but it's mostly encountered in literature or works of art where the intention is to express, or you have to be very obvious with expressing your own feelings when talking to someone and if not that, then describe enough so that they know what you are feeling when you have a neutral voice and expression. I often times found in conversations - and I speak without an accent, mind you - that for some reason people fail to understand me unless I am very specific with what I am talking about or trying to express. For instance let's say you go to a grocery store to buy some meats from the deli store. You want to buy something called "oven roasted kobe style beef" but instead of saying the entire name, you just request a "kobe beef," which is also the only item at the deli that has the name "kobe" in it, so it's impossible to mistake it. Yet despite that, the person at the deli store fails to understand me unless I say the entire, lengthy name. It's a very rough and simple example, but similar situations are basically something I've always encountered when talking with people and, like I said before, I speak without an accent and have really good English to a point that you won't be able to tell that I am from Russia. In my experience, I'd say English is more of a factual language, especially when it comes to communicating specific information. Oh! A good example, but from the Russian side that may show the differences a bit better: At a public transportation in Russia (bus or a van, I forget), one of the drivers posted a sign. It said "All rabbits are goats," which stumped a lot of foreigners. So when one of them asked why it says that, someone replied "Because he (the driver) treats them like goats." And, well, in Russian there's a word for those who use public transportation without paying - rabbits (probably because the buggers are quick), and in Russia we also can call someone a goat as a curse word, which usually means we are calling them a scumbag or an imp or such (I don't really know why it's a curse word - probably has to do with symbology or the nature of the animal). But uh, on its own, the sentence sounds very bizarre in English, right? Even with knowing the context, it still sounds weird to me in English, but when I say the same thing in Russian, it just makes sense. Or another example: we have a phrase that confuses those unfamiliar with the language/culture. It's basically "Да нет наверно" which is difficult to translate into other languages. It can be translated into "Maybe no," "Yeah, maybe no," "Yeah no, maybe," "Yes, maybe not," and so on and so forth. The only way to tell which one is which is by the tone, emphasis, and context - that's it. Apparently it stumps folks in conversations when asking someone something because they don't understand what the partner is replying. Is partner saying a yes, or is it a no, or just maybe, or maybe yes, or maybe no?

@@Agent0oh Thank you for taking the time to explain the difficulties of translation.

@@Agent0oh Cool! Thanks for the insight! I believe that one reason for English being less colourful language in everyday use than, let's say, Russian, is that English has evolved to be very easy to understand and learn, since the people in the colonies had to be able to pick it up. Although Russia has had its expansionist periods, the Russian language hasn't had nearly the global spread English has. So it can retain more nuance. I'm Swedish and along Swedish, I also know a bit of South Sámi, the language of the native population in my particular part of Sweden. If I compare English, Swedish and South Sámi, there is no doubt that South Sámi has the most complex grammar of the three as well as the most expressiveness. I love how languages don't just convey communication, but also a whole culture. For example, there are a lot of South Sámi words for reindeer, really specific ones such as "reindeer hat has been attacked by wolves", which is different than "reindeer that has been attacked by wolverines". Translation is really difficult and often, literal translations doesn't work that well because of different idioms, allegories etc.

@@oliver_twistor No problem. I think you are probably right about English being easier to understand and learn because I did notice that English has a lot of really specific names for various things and have clear definitions (less abstract), although they don't always follow the same rules regarding pronunciation, as in there are a lot of exceptions. I think a RU-vidr Loic showed it very well in his French vs English jokes (ex: words like "though," "through," "dough," and "cough" and so on - you get the idea). You kind of have to memorize each word to know how it's supposed to be pronounced. It makes me wonder why English has a lot of pronunciation exceptions, but it IS easier to communicate information in it and to get exactly what you want, especially in situations like where transactions have to be made. It's simpler than French for instance due to its structure and how clearly the sentence communicates the information you want. Come to think of it, there is something peculiar about how Russians communicate, which probably comes from how languages shape people's mentality (how we think, perceive, and react to our surroundings, objectives & problem solving, etc.). With Russians I notice - and we even had satires joke about it - there are lot of times where instead of saying specifically what we want we try to instead communicate in an abstract manner. Let's say you are trying to get someone to bring you a drill that you left somewhere on a table in the next room. Instead of saying exactly what you need - maybe because you forgot the name or had a brainfart, or you just don't know the name - we sometimes say "Принеси мне хрень что я оставил на том столе где-то там" ("Bring me the thing that I left somewhere on a table somewhere there") or something equally abstract. Yet somehow, most of the time, the other Russian understands what we are trying to say and actually brings that thingy you requested for, like his mind is on the same wavelength as yours. And if not, he'll bring you the wrong thingy, but a thingy nonetheless! Also I understand exactly what you mean in regards to culture! Ours, for instance, has a lot of, hm, "chain words" (sorry, I forget the names) where, if you are unsure what the word means, you can guess what it might mean by breaking down the word (or if you know the parent word). What do I mean by that: there are words like "благодарю" ("thank you") that can be broken into two words: "благо" (good, boon, blessing, welfare) and "дарю" (to gift, but in this form it's to gift from yourself). If you put the two together, you get "I give you blessings/welfare". In other words, you thank someone, you give your blessings. There's also a lot of words where you can see cultural influence somewhere from the ancient past. For instance, take words "радость" (happiness), "красота" (beauty), "рай" (heaven), "равный" (equal). They all share the "ра" (Ra) part in the name. I don't know if you heard, but a lot of cultures - like the Egyptians - used to worship the sun god Ra, and there's a strong belief that the slavs were no different. If you try to break down the words for what they mean when you include the knowledge of "ра" = the sun god into the context, then each word starts to make sense (though keep in mind that Russian today is pretty different than Russian of the past, but many words from it still exist to this day). Here's the breakdown of the examples I mentioned: "Радость" - ра достать (to reach ra; to reach the sun, happiness in other words). "Красота" - к Ра стремление (aspire to Ra; aspire to the beauty of the god, the sun). "Рай" - вместе с Ра (together with Ra; heaven, together with the god). "Равный" - в одном ряду с Ра (in the same row/standing as Ra; equal to the sun, the god). This is, at least, what jumps to my mind immediately when it comes to languages carrying culture and its influences. English carries a lot of it from Europe, German especially because it's English's parent, if I am not mistaken.

Oh yeah. Cringy especially Dora in the first meeting. Holy heck it was awful. And the main character yikes