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[thedevilishone.livejournal.com]

How do you say...

- "I added you!"

As in added someone to your friend's list on LJ...

And how do you say...

- "Anyways..."

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[fint.livejournal.com]

- "I added you!"

- я тебя добавил(во френды)
- я тебя зафрендил

- "Anyways..."

- по-любому

[thedevilishone.livejournal.com]

How do you say 20/20 vision/eyesight in russian?

[nbuwe.livejournal.com]

If you mean it literally - "зрение - единица".

[sergiusis.livejournal.com]

I think, there are different standards in that.

In our sistem "единица" - normal eyesight. Higher numbers - short sight. Negative numbers - long sight.

[solito.livejournal.com]

You confuse two different things - one is acuity of vision which is between 1 (normal eyesight) and 0 (total blindness). Another thing is the lens' focal power that is 0 for normal glass, and negative or positive up to +/-8 (cylinder) and -18 to +22 (sphere). Positive number is a lens that needed to compensate short sight, negative - to compensate long sight.

See more detailed explanation (in Russian) here http://www.websight.ru/conf/addanswer.php?id=716

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

I have also met with the system widely ised in the military: according to that, normal eyesight was 100 per cent and total blindness was 0 per cent. According to military medics, I was marked as 110 per cent since I could read the second (from below) row of letters in their test table. It's been a while, though (1986.)

[dimon37.livejournal.com]

If you are looking for an idiom, then you can say 'глаз-алмаз' (diamond eye)

[nbuwe.livejournal.com]

I can't help shuddering every time I hear the slangish "по-любому", because my native dialect has a perfectly normative "всяко". :)

Anyways, "Anyways..." is better rendered in Russian as "как бы то ни было" or "так или иначе".

[solito.livejournal.com]

I often hear even "полюбэ" - which is even worse - usually it is teenagers' slang. This is AWFUL!

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Oh boy :) Shudder?? I JUMP :)))