baconmeteor ([info]baconmeteor) wrote,
@ 2007-12-16 12:33:00
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т. Справченко в заготовке древесной коры понадеялся на самотек, чем эти заготовки и провалил..

Is the meaning here that Comrade Spravchenko was negligent? i.e. counting on the fact that the wood bark would collect itself?

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[info]gianthare
2007-12-16 03:55 pm UTC (link)
Something like that. Not exactly counting, more like hoping that the things will sort themselves out somehow.

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[info]mama_ari
2007-12-16 03:56 pm UTC (link)
yes, he was negligent. but he was rather counting that the process will organize itself. something may be performed самотеком - it means that the natural habits of people are enough for something to happen, and no control needed. usually ironical, especially when in official speech.

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[info]mama_ari
2007-12-16 04:02 pm UTC (link)
i guess he was hoping that farmers will collect the bark, go to towns and sell it to his office - as they did before selling it on markets, and that no special promotion of his collecting place was needed.

and: the total structure of the phrase tastes very official-soviet-Bureaucratic, it was a very usual phrase for negligiency charge.

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[info]mama_ari
2007-12-16 04:05 pm UTC (link)
and more: last name Spravchenko is funny. shaped from "spravka", official reference or official excuse, soviet terminology. and has Ukrainian ending.

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[info]oryx_and_crake
2007-12-16 06:53 pm UTC (link)
+1
He certainly was not expecting the wood to collect itself but did not make enough effort to manage the process.

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[info]arno1251
2007-12-17 09:45 am UTC (link)
+1

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[info]evocator
2007-12-17 12:43 am UTC (link)
Welcome back! Missed you all those years:)

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[info]baconmeteor
2007-12-17 12:48 am UTC (link)
Thank you! I'm happy to finally be able to get back to work on this. And I'm delighted to see so many familiar icons have stuck around to help me.

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[info]pechkin
2007-12-17 08:07 am UTC (link)
The correct answer is above: He hoped that the process would kind of sort itself out. The difficult word for me in this piece was, surprisingly, "понадеялся".

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[info]pascendi
2007-12-17 08:52 am UTC (link)
Happy to see you again!
Send more questions :-)

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