Russian ⇄ English

я говорю stresses
gen.	like I said (sever_korrespondent)
amer.	ah say (искажённое "I say", характерное для жителей юга США; может переводиться практически любым словом-паразитом Bartek2001)
inf.	says me (в ответ на "Says who? – Это кто такое говорит?": "Says who?" "Says me, that's who!"); I was like (при передаче прямой речи: "We just happened to fly directly over the top of it," pilot Bret Hutchings recalled, "he was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!' And I was like, 'what.' And he's like, 'There's this thing back there – we've got to go look at it!'" The source of all the excitement was a puzzling metal monolith standing strikingly out of place in a cove of the state's iconic red rocks. – он говорит ..... а я говорю ..... coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver)

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