expressiveness and ease with some words is being diluted

Russian translation: нам все трудней выражать свои мысли и применять некоторые слова

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English term or phrase: expressiveness and ease with some words is being diluted
Russian translation:нам все трудней выражать свои мысли и применять некоторые слова
Entered by: LanaUK

14:25 Nov 9, 2011
English to Russian translations [PRO]
Linguistics / Journalism/Twitter
English term or phrase: expressiveness and ease with some words is being diluted
THIS past week has seen two news items on language and Twitter. In the slightly unserious category are the comments by Ralph Fiennes that Twitter is degrading the English language.

"Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us," he said. [...]
"I think we're living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English language, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant?"
The actor, who has just directed a forthcoming screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, has his pecuniary reasons for hoping that viewers' taste for antique syntax and rare words hasn't been eroded by Twitter. But is Twitter really so bad? At this point, one standard response is to recall how some people (Socrates, famously) opposed writing as a technology that bred lazy minds, and left words dead on the page, scroll or tablet. It's hard to find a communications technology that wasn't criticised for degrading the language.
LanaUK
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:26
нам все трудней выражать свои мысли и применять некоторые слова
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Ella Mykhailova
Ukraine
Local time: 14:26
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1мы потихоньку утрачиваемтеряем способность точно и легко выражать свои мысли
barking knit (X)
3 +1нам все трудней выражать свои мысли и применять некоторые слова
Ella Mykhailova
4выразительность и естественность нашего языка выхолащивается
Maija Guļājeva
4нам всё труднее выражать свои мысли и обращаться с некоторыми словами
Aleksey Arutyunov
3Мы испытываем затруднения...
Andrew Vdovin


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
expressiveness and ease with some words is being diluted
нам все трудней выражать свои мысли и применять некоторые слова


Explanation:
как вариант

Ella Mykhailova
Ukraine
Local time: 14:26
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Спасибо!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Спасибо,Элла!


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agree  Aleksey Arutyunov
2 days 18 hrs
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Мы испытываем затруднения...


Explanation:
Мы испытываем затруднения при использовании некоторых слов, когда пытаемся добиться выразительности и легкости...

Andrew Vdovin
Local time: 19:26
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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
выразительность и естественность нашего языка выхолащивается


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Maija Guļājeva
Latvia
Local time: 14:26
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 4
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
мы потихоньку утрачиваемтеряем способность точно и легко выражать свои мысли


Explanation:
как вариант

barking knit (X)
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: Russian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MariyaN (X)
6 hrs
  -> Спасибо большое!
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2 days 18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
нам всё труднее выражать свои мысли и обращаться с некоторыми словами


Explanation:
"обращаться со словами", а не "применять" лучше звучит, так как имеется в виду "красноречие", легкость их использования.

Aleksey Arutyunov
United States
Local time: 08:26
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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