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what is hedgehog culling?? words are clear but the meaning is not...
and nuclear family too!
if you translate it to russian will be much obliged :oops:

or just explain! :oops:

thank you in advance!
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Tora wrote:what is hedgehog culling?? words are clear but the meaning is not...
and nuclear family too!
if you translate it to russian will be much obliged :oops:

or just explain! :oops:

thank you in advance!
I think (I think!!) that hedgehog culling means hedgehog selective killing :roll: I will look for more info.

Wordreference says of "nuclear family":

nuclear family, conjugal family
a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
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I can’t help you with the first one (I’ve never heard it), but I’ll try to explain the second one (it is used in America quite often)

Nuclear family is a term opposite of extended family. Nuclear family consists of only parents and children while extended family, in addition to parents and children, can have other relatives (grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc) living together.
It’s not that nuclear family doesn’t have any other relatives; they just live in some other place, not in the same household.

I can’t really think of a Russian term for nuclear family :? Hope my explanation helps
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thanks you loads, ladies!
I'm translating a short story of a modern writer... I'm such a looney translator, but I must do it... thank you so much again! :oops:
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Tora wrote:what is hedgehog culling?? words are clear but the meaning is not...
and nuclear family too!
if you translate it to russian will be much obliged :oops:

or just explain! :oops:

thank you in advance!

Nuclear family- Ядерная семья. :roll:
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Xkalibur wrote:
Nuclear family- Ядерная семья. :roll:

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somebody has bad childhood memories :lol: don't take me serious, Xkalibur, I'm just kidding :wink:

I'm already thinking to translate it as "разобщенность поколений" и в том же духе (family disunity) :roll:
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What's the nicest way to define the word "roopy"?
I was sometimes hoarse - a little roopy was his exact expression
does roopy completely corresponds with the word in italics?
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I have never heard of that word before!
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This is a quote from Dickens's "David Copperfield". I failed looking up this word in dictionaries and decided to apply to you
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Tora wrote:This is a quote from Dickens's "David Copperfield". I failed looking up this word in dictionaries and decided to apply to you
Если уж и Данет это слово не слышал никогда, то стало быть это какой-нибудь архаизм или тому подобная хрень.
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It is not a regular English word. I have a feeling that in Dickens' book, the character has invented his own word to use for the word "hoarse". It was a way for Dickens to add dimension to his character.
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My grandmother used to refer to coughing and having a hoarse voice as "whoopy."

I believe the reference was to a disease commonly called "whooping cough" (because of the sound of the wracking cough made by those who had the disease).

I wonder if "roopy" as a similar history?
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Tora wrote:what is hedgehog culling?? words are clear but the meaning is not...
I would like to see the sentence that used this phrase to get a greater context. Generally though, hedgehogs are slow realatively timid animals. They also can occasionally breed to the point of becoming vermin, like rats. In the UK, they used to have to cull the population of hedgehogs now and then, but I think they have stopped doing so now. The animals are considered "cute" and many people think they should be protected.

I'd have to know the context of how the words were used in a sentence to be able to pick up the author's exact meaning. He was probably either referring to the actual destruction of these animals as vermin, or he was using the imagery of killing these animals as a metaphore for something else.

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As used in the United States (I'm not sure about Britain) a "nuclear family" is a "traditional" family consisting of one male father figure, one female mother figure, and their child or children. In the strictest sense, the father and mother must be legally married for the definition of "nuclear family" to apply.

As the society and culture of America changes, that defintion is changing somewhat. Some already do not require the couple to be married to use the term to describe the family. Others are open to the idea of a "nuclear family" containing a homosexual couple and any children raised by them. So far, I don't think the definition has been stretched to include polyamorous families.
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Thank you a lot, your opinion is worth paying attention above all, thank you for clarifying that peculiarities to us.

I love your grandmother's "whoopy" word, what you tell is really interesting!
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danyet wrote:I have never heard of that word before!
Me neither.
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