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 Sharkina

link 26.07.2006 18:49 
Subject: Да что мне-то?
Can anyone help me with this? I think it should be along the following lines.

How should I know?
Why ask me?

Can anyone elaborate, or tell me if I'm on the right lines. I know it's tricky and inexact but the above show the context - someone asking for an opinion the other doesn't feel qualified to give.

tA!

 Shumov

link 26.07.2006 18:58 
can have different overtones depending on context. Normally it means

"Why should I care?"

 Shumov

link 26.07.2006 19:08 
Actually it is more often "Да мне-то что?".

The line as given by you sounds quite awkward, still - and I am guessing here - if it is curtailed version of Да что [Вы] мне-то [задаете этот вопрос]? than it can indeed be rendered as you suggested in the opening post.

 Zurich

link 27.07.2006 7:06 
А я почем знаю? Откуда мне знать-то? Почему ты спрашиваешь именно у меня?

 прозодящий мимо

link 27.07.2006 7:30 
I don't care - по смыслу тоже подходит

 Juliza

link 27.07.2006 7:48 
безразличие: I could care less!

А я почем знаю? Откуда мне знать-то? Почему ты спрашиваешь именно у меня?
How do I know? или.. I don't know and don't care

 V

link 27.07.2006 11:02 
WHAT do I care?

 

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