Small itty bitty translation request. :)

[anglo-don-juan.livejournal.com]

My best friend is a Russian exchange student, and we are going to celebrate her birthday this week. This will be the second birthday she has spent away from home, and I wanted to give her a little taste of it back.

Can anyone please tell me how to write out "Happy Birthday Alesya". I want to write it on her birthday cake, and I don't trust the online translator websites anymore. Oh, and can someone please tell me why she found "Вы приглашены на сторону!" so funny when she got her invitation? That was supposed to say "You are invited to a party!", and that is what the translating site told me...I think they steered me wrong.

Thanks to anyone who can help, I'm new around here but trying to learn some Russian from my best friend. :)

~Naomi

ETA: Thank you everyone for your help! I am going to print out all the comments to show her, because now we can laugh about it together. :)

Comments

[sashka-vyshka.livejournal.com]

С днем рождения, Алеся!
About the second part: "You are invited to a party" is translated as "Вы приглашены на вечеринку". The word сторону is wrong (it's translated as "side") and very funny there, because in Russian "сходить на сторону"(to go to a side) means "to cheat on somebody". You invited her to go an cheat instead of inviting to a party :)

[platonicus.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday Alesya = С ДНЕМ РОЖДЕНИЯ, АЛЕСЯ!


"Вы приглашены на сторону" can mean smth like 'You are invited to get an intrigue"

The right version is "Вас (or тебя) пригласили на вечеринку"

[nicodimus-canis.livejournal.com]

"Happy Birthday Alesya" - "С днём рождения Олеся!"
You are invited to a party! - Вы приглашены на вечеринку!
"На сторону" can mean "be unfaithful" I think this made funny.

[sashka-vyshka.livejournal.com]

Why did you change Alesya to Olesya? There are 2 different names, and if in this case she is Alesya, she can not like this variation of her name, I know at least one Alesya who doesn't like when her name is written Олеся :)

[nicodimus-canis.livejournal.com]

If to be honest, I don't know the name Алеся, so I thought there is a mistake. Maybe you are right.

[ekeme-ndiba.livejournal.com]

Both names are local forms of Alexandra non-existent in standard Great Russian: Олеся is Ukrainian while Алеся is White Russian.

[nicodimus-canis.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We say: "Век живи - век учись" :))

[shoomelka-mysh.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday Alesya = С Днем Рождения, Алеся!

Вы приглашены на сторону! - is really funny, because in Russian it means you're offering this person to cheat on someone, the correct translation is Вы приглашаетесь на вечеринку!.. ;)

[sokol-888.livejournal.com]

"Вы приглашены на сторону!" translates as "You are invited to an affair" :)

[xtradone.livejournal.com]

if she is your best friend, wouldn't you more likely say "ты приглашена на вечеринку!" ?
i'm not a native speaker so better check it out with the others... unless you're inviting her and some other people on the same invitation.

[rrockabye.livejournal.com]

you're right.

[suejc3dogs.livejournal.com]

Psst. Totally off topic. I wish your icon didn't flash by so quickly. I want to read it! It looks fascinating.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_trains__derail/]

hahaha i was just thinking the same thing.

[anglo-don-juan.livejournal.com]

Lets see if I can catch up with it and write it out for you. :)

For every girl who is tired of being called weak when she is strong, there is a boy who is tired of appearing strong when he is vulnerable.

For every boy who is burdened with the constant expectation of knowing everything, there is a girl who is tired of people not trusting her intelligence.

For every girl who is tired of being called over-sensitive, there is a boy who fears to be gentle, to weep.

For every boy whom competition is the only way to prove his masculinity, there is a girl who is called unfeminine when she competes.

For every girl who throws out her ez-bake oven, there is a boy who wishes to find one.

For every boy struggling not to let advertising dictate his desires, there is a girl facing the ad industry's attack on her self-esteem.

For every girl who takes a step towards her liberation, there is a boy who finds the way to freedom a little easier.

There ya go. Man, my head is killing me now, I must have watched that thing flash a thousand times lol.

[suejc3dogs.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. It's a wise icon!