QUERY: uzhe + poka = ???

Paul B. Gallagher paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Thu Jun 14 21:54:37 UTC 2007


I've been having a debate with a couple of people over this phrase, and 
so far everyone I've asked has come up with a different answer:

"Сократить население планеты до миллиарда ненасильственным путем
***уже невозможно и пока невозможно.***"

Can someone explain clearly what it means? I'm having a real hard time 
figuring out how to combine "уже" and "пока" and get something 
meaningful. I'm reading "уже" as "already; sooner than expected" 
(temporal, not contrastive sense) and "пока" as "for now, so far, but 
that could change."

Thanks.

-- 
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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