A few words of Bulgarian

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

Thanks to everyone for their helpful replies.  My apologies for not providing more context.  This is from a book by Patrick Leigh Fermor.  The editor isn't wanting to correct Fermor's broken Bulgarian, just wanting to check that fonts haven't got garbled.

Here are a few more lines:
They told me they were off to Vatopedi too, and that if I waited for ten minutes they would be back with another horse. After waiting in the falling snow, walking round in circles, for nearer twenty minutes, I decided it wasn’t good enough, so wrote deep in the snow with my stick: СТУДЕНО ТУКА. ОТИВАМ ЗА ВАТОПЕД! (Cold here, off to Vatopedi!)

All the best,

Robert

> You are correct, but I would alter the translation a minor bit: "Its cold here, I'm off to Vatoped!
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> On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, Robert Chandler wrote:
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> |Dear all,
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> |An editor has asked me to check  a few words in Cyrillic that appear in a book soon to be published.  Most are Russian, but one is Bulgarian.
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> |Can someone who knows Bulgarian confirm that this looks OK?
> |"СТУДЕНО ТУКА. ОТИВАМ ЗА ВАТОПЕД! (Cold here, off to Vatopedi!)"
> |
> |Also: is the Bulgarian second person singular pronoun usually written as "ty" or "ti"?
> |
> |Thanks!
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> |R.
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> |Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD
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