TOTALLY GEEKED!

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Tinydancer wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Tinydancer wrote:

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That's my opinion so I'm the source. Oh and I think that's what you should call flan as she is the ultimate whiny one.

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Keep calling me weltsie, Whiny Dancer.

I've asked you over and over again not to call me that. 

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 I've asked you over and over again not to insult my religion so I'm affording you the same courtesy. See how that works weltsie?

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 wow.   Speechless.

 

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 Me, too.  Weltz calls her Whiny Dancer and then gets butthurt when she comes back with weltsie.  Which is worse, would you say?

She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

I prefer a lively board with dissenting opinions. Everybody agreeing all the time would be boring.

Tinydancer wrote:

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I prefer a lively board with dissenting opinions. Everybody agreeing all the time would be boring.

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 You SERIOUSLY do not COMPREHEND the difference between a DISSENTING OPINION and a PERSONAL ATTACK?

flan

flan327 wrote:

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Lawyerlady wrote:

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Tinydancer wrote:

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She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

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 Then it wouldn't be that way, anymore.

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 She already posts there.

flan

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 Yeah, its a big ole lesbian lovefest over there. All slobbering over each other and IVYs and oh, you're such a good person...

Blech...

Ohfour wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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Lawyerlady wrote:

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Tinydancer wrote:

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She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

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 Then it wouldn't be that way, anymore.

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 She already posts there.

flan

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 Yeah, its a big ole lesbian lovefest over there. All slobbering over each other and IVYs and oh, you're such a good person...

Blech...

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 RICHARD'S board? A LESBIAN LOVEFEST?

WHY do you lurk there?

flan

Tinydancer wrote:

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She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

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I've ASKED YOU REPEATEDLY not to call me weltsie. You persisted in doing so. That's why I call you Whiny Dancer and Tiny Cancer now.

Knock it off and I'll stop.

If there was a Japanese woman posting here named Hakido and asked you not to call her Hakkie,

because it's offensive in her culture, would you continue to do so?

I have no doubt that you would. You're classy like that.

weltschmerz wrote:

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Tinydancer wrote:

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She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

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I've ASKED YOU REPEATEDLY not to call me weltsie. You persisted in doing so. That's why I call you Whiny Dancer and Tiny Cancer now.

Knock it off and I'll stop.

If there was a Japanese woman posting here named Hakido and asked you not to call her Hakkie,

because it's offensive in her culture, would you continue to do so?

I have no doubt that you would. You're classy like that.

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 You chose a name that means world pain.

But you are offended by weltsie.

 

Another comprehension fail for Lilliputian.

flan

lilyofcourse wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Tinydancer wrote:

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She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

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I've ASKED YOU REPEATEDLY not to call me weltsie. You persisted in doing so. That's why I call you Whiny Dancer and Tiny Cancer now.

Knock it off and I'll stop.

If there was a Japanese woman posting here named Hakido and asked you not to call her Hakkie,

because it's offensive in her culture, would you continue to do so?

I have no doubt that you would. You're classy like that.

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 You chose a name that means world pain.

But you are offended by weltsie.

 

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Damn right I'm offended by weltsie. A diminutive is offensive in both my cultures. French and Russian. 

SOME Americans respect OTHER cultures.

flan

weltschmerz wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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SOME Americans respect OTHER cultures.

flan

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Apparently, not these Americans. 

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 Come to my house, you play by my rules. I dont have to change because you get your feelings hurt by a name. Quit acting like a 6 year old....

Ohfour wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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lilyofcourse wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Tinydancer wrote:

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She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

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I've ASKED YOU REPEATEDLY not to call me weltsie. You persisted in doing so. That's why I call you Whiny Dancer and Tiny Cancer now.

Knock it off and I'll stop.

If there was a Japanese woman posting here named Hakido and asked you not to call her Hakkie,

because it's offensive in her culture, would you continue to do so?

I have no doubt that you would. You're classy like that.

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 You chose a name that means world pain.

But you are offended by weltsie.

 

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Damn right I'm offended by weltsie. A diminutive is offensive in both my cultures. French and Russian. 

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 You're on an American message board. Get over it. 

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So you WOULD call her Hakkie.

Figures.......

weltschmerz wrote:

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lilyofcourse wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Tinydancer wrote:

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She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

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I've ASKED YOU REPEATEDLY not to call me weltsie. You persisted in doing so. That's why I call you Whiny Dancer and Tiny Cancer now.

Knock it off and I'll stop.

If there was a Japanese woman posting here named Hakido and asked you not to call her Hakkie,

because it's offensive in her culture, would you continue to do so?

I have no doubt that you would. You're classy like that.

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 You chose a name that means world pain.

But you are offended by weltsie.

 

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Damn right I'm offended by weltsie. A diminutive is offensive in both my cultures. French and Russian. 

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 It doesn't mean anything.

You're being overly sensitive. 

 

I knew a girl a long time ago, she was born without a V, her chromosomes were off. Anyway, she is a true transgender, half female, half male. Doctors told her she could make a decision which gender she wanted to be, she chose female. Due to her chromosome makeup she is a transgender. The others that have normal chromosomes are not transgender, they merely are more feminine than a regular male. Sure, its a burden, but one's gender is not defined by your mental leaning, gender is a physical definition.

You dont get to bring your culture into our house. Its up to you to adapt. Not us....

Ohfour wrote:

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You dont get to bring your culture into our house. Its up to you to adapt. Not us....

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 And it's NOT your board.

Supposedly you have a Canadian friend. If she asked you not to call her a certain nickname, what would you do?

flan

weltschmerz wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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You dont get to bring your culture into our house. Its up to you to adapt. Not us....

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Got it. These fine upstanding Christians can be as rude as they want to be.

Being rude is all the rage now, thanks to Trump. 

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 There you go. 

And you wonder why no one takes you seriously. 

 

flan327 wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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You dont get to bring your culture into our house. Its up to you to adapt. Not us....

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 And it's NOT your board.

Supposedly you have a Canadian friend. If she asked you not to call her a certain nickname, what would you do?

flan

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 BTW, is not a Canadian thing. Its a Russian thing....shes French Canadian.

weltschmerz wrote:

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lilyofcourse wrote:

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weltschmerz wrote:

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Tinydancer wrote:

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She's called me way worse than Whiny Dancer. It's an anonymous message board so I don't get my feelings hurt by what some stranger calls me. Especially one I don't agree on anything with. If welts can't handle it maybe she needs to go post on that nice board where no one is mean.

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I've ASKED YOU REPEATEDLY not to call me weltsie. You persisted in doing so. That's why I call you Whiny Dancer and Tiny Cancer now.

Knock it off and I'll stop.

If there was a Japanese woman posting here named Hakido and asked you not to call her Hakkie,

because it's offensive in her culture, would you continue to do so?

I have no doubt that you would. You're classy like that.

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 You chose a name that means world pain.

But you are offended by weltsie.

 

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Damn right I'm offended by weltsie. A diminutive is offensive in both my cultures. French and Russian. 

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 Now that's odd.  Because the French and Russians use LOTS of diminutives.  And my name is French and a diminutive is common.  My Russian neighbors all use diminutives on their kids. 

They seem to be quite common, actually -

French

Informal French has a number of diminutive nicknames, although not as systematically as in English.

In French, for both male and female names, hypocorisms are most commonly formed by dropping the last syllable:

• Catherine → Cathy
• Christelle → Chris
• Christophe → Chris
• Frédéric, Frédérique → Fred
• Grégory, Grégoire → Greg
• Jean-Michel → Jean-Mi
• Joannie → Jo
• Marie-Charlotte → Macha
• Marie-Josée → Marie-Jo
• Maxime → Max
• Michaël → Mic
• Philippe → Phil
• Stéphane → Steph
• Stéphanie → Steph

Dropping the first syllable is also attested:

• Christophe → Tophe

Sometimes, only central syllables are kept:

• Augustin → Gus
• Emmanuel → Manu
• Emmanuelle → Manu

Another method commonly used is doubling one syllable of the name:

• André → Dédé
• Annie → Nini
• Augustin → Tintin
• Christine → Kikine
• Christophe → Totophe
• Joseph → Jojo
• Julie → Juju
• Louis → Loulou
• all female names ending in -tine → Titine

For male names, the ending -ot is attested, although its use is rather dated:

• Charles → Charlot
• Jean → Jeannot
• Jules → Julot
• Pierre → Pierrot

It was also sometimes (but rarely) used for females:

• Marguerite → Margot

The ending -et for males was used around the Renaissance, and is now obsolete:

• Henri → Henriquet
• Jacques → Jacquet

For female names, the ending -ette was used in the first half of the 20th century, and even often given as the official name:

• Anne → Annette
• Jeanne → Jeannette
• Marie → Mariette
• Paule → Paulette

Some names in -ette are not actual hypocorisms, but the only existing feminized form of a male name:

• Antoine (male) → Antoinette (female)
• Pierre (male) → Pierrette (female)
• Nicolas (male) → Nicolette (female) (rare and dated) → Colette

The ending -on is rarer, often dated or obsolete, used for both genders:

• Antoinette → Toinon
• Françoise → Fanchon
• Henri → Riton
• Marie → Marion
• Louis → Louison
• Louise → Louison

The ending -ou is also rare:

• Anne → Nanou

A special case is the ending in -ick/ -ic, which is the French writing for the hypocoristic form in Breton "-ig", used for both genders. The "-ig" form in Breton means "Little ...". This diminutive, in its French form of "ick" or "ic", became in vogue for official names in the second half of the 20th century:

• Annick (original in Breton: Annaig), from Anne
• Soizic (original: Soazig), from Frañsoaz, the Breton writing for the French "Françoise"
• Loïc, probably from the French Louis
• Yannick (original: Yannig), from Yann, meaning "John" in Breton

In Breton, the diminutive form "...ig" can be given to any kind of names, nouns or adjectives, (un tammig, a few), while in French it relates only to given names.

The name Soazig shows more than the ending "ig". Often in Breton a hypocoristic form of a given name can be made by putting away the first syllable. "Frañsoaz" becomes a familiar "Soaz" then, given to a child, the name is "Soazig", but not as an official name. This is also a difference between French and Breton: the diminutive ending "...ig" in Breton is only used as a temporary form for young children, while "...ick" is official and permanent in French names, and has lost his sense of a diminutive.

For words, French often produces hypocorisms either by truncating a word after the letter o, or by chopping off the end of the word and adding an o: McDo from McDonalds; gynéco from gynécologue; dico from dictionnaire; dodo (childish word for sleep, from dormir, to sleep); écolo from écologiste; coco from communiste; catho from catholique; psycho from psychologie.

The ending -oche (with or without an intervening consonant or phoneme to make it easier to pronounce) is also sometimes used: cinoche (cinéma), MacDoche (McDonalds), fastoche (easy-peezy, from facile, easy). Words or names may also be shortened or abbreviated without an O: fixs from fixations, 'ski bindings'; Jean-Phi from Jean-Philippe; amphi from amphithéatre (large classroom or lecture hall); ciné (another informal word for cinéma). These words are familiar/informal versions of the underlying words.

The connotation of familiarity (my friend Jean-Phi, as opposed to my new colleague Jean-Philippe; cinoche, the place I often go for entertainment, as opposed to cinéma, the neutral word for a movie theater) is what makes them hypocorisms.

Russian

Russian has a wide variety of diminutive forms for names, to the point that for non-Russian speakers it can be difficult to connect a nickname to the original. Diminutive forms for nouns are usually distinguished with -ик (-ik), -ок (-ok), -ёк (-yok) (masculine gender), -чк-/-шк- (-chk-/-shk-) and -оньк-/-еньк- (-on’k-/-en’k-) suffixes. Names can be somewhat more arbitrary, but still follow a loose pattern. A list of common names and their diminutive forms:

• Aleksey → Alyosha, Alyoshen'ka, Alyoshka, Lyosha, Lyoshka, Lyoha
• Aleksandr, Aleksandra → Sasha, Sashen'ka, Sashechka, Sashka, Sanya, San'ka, Shura, Shurka, Shurik, Shurochka
• Alyona → Alyonka, Alyonooshka
• Anastasiya → Nastas'ya, Nastya, Nasten'ka, Nastyushka, Nastyona, Nast'ka, Natasha, Asya, Stasya
• Andrey → Andryusha, Andryukha, Dyusha, Dyukha, Andron, Dron
• Anna → Anya, Anyuta, Anyutka, Anechka, Annushka, Nyuta, Nyura, Nyurka, Nyusha
• Artyom → Tyoma, Tyomych
• Avdotya → Dunya, Dunyasha
• Boris → Borya, Boren'ka, Boryusha, Bor'ka
• Dmitry → Dima, Dimka, Dimochka, Dimulia, Dimon, Dimych, Mitya, Miten'ka, Mitёnka, Mityusha, Mit'ka
• Elena → Lena, Lenka, Lenochka, Lenochek, Lenok, Elenchyk, Lenyusya
• Galina → Galya, Galka, Galechka
• Gennady → Gena, Gesha, Genka, Genych, Genchik, Genochka
• Georgiy → Zhora, Gosha, Goga
• Gleb → Glebka
• Grigoriy → Grisha, Grinya, Grikha
• Igor → Igoryok, Igoryochek, Gosha, Garik
• Irina → Ira, Irochka, Irunya, Irisha, Irishka, Irka, Irinka, Irusya
• Ivan → Vanya, Ivanushka, Vanechka, Van'ka, Vanyusha
• Kirill → Kiryusha, Kirya
• Konstantin → Kostya, Kosten'ka, Kostik, Kost'ka, Kotya, Koka
• Kseniya, Oksana → Oksanka, Ksana, Sana, Ksyuha, Ksyusha
• Larisa → Lora, Lorka
• Leonid → Lyonya, Lyonechka, Lyon'ka, Lyonchik
• Lev → Lyova, Lyovochka, Lyovka
• Lyudmila → Lyuda, Lyusya, Mila
• Margarita (given name) → Rita, Ritka, Ritusya, Ritunya, Ritik
• Mariya → Masha, Manya, Man'ka, Manyunya, Mashen'ka, Mashechka, Mashka, Marusya, Makha
• Mikhail → Misha, Mishen'ka, Mischechka, Mishanya, Mishka, Mishutka, Mikha
• Nadezhda → Nadya, Nad'ka, Naden'ka, Nadyusha
• Nataliya → Natasha, Nata, Natashen'ka, Natakha, Natusyen'ka, Natusik, Natashka
• Nikolay → Kolya, Kolen'ka, Kolyunya, Nikolen'ka, Nikolasha, Kol'ka, Kolyan
• Oleg → Olezhka, Olezha, Olezhek, Olegushka, Lega, Lyoka
• Olga → Olya, Olen'ka, Olechka
• Pavel → Pasha, Pashka, Pashen'ka, Pavlik, Pakha, Pakhan, Pavlusha
• Pyotr → Petya, Pet'ka, Peten'ka, Petrusha, Petruha, Petyunya
• Radimir → Radya, Mira
• Roman → Roma, Romka, Romochka, Romych
• Sergey → Seryozha, Seryoga, Seryozhen'ka, Seryozhka, Seriy, Sega
• Stepan → Styopa, Styopan'ka, Stepan'chik, Styopushka, Styopka
• Stanislav→ Stasya, Stasik, Stasen'ka
• Sofiya → Sonya, Sonechka, Sofa, Sofochka
• Svetlana → Sveta, Svetochka, Svetyushka, Svetka
• Svyatoslav, Vyacheslav → Slava, Slavik, Slavochka
• Stanislav → Stas
• Taisiya → Tasya, Taya
• Tatyana → Tanya, Tanechka, Tanyusha, Tan'ushka, Tan'ka, Tan'chik, Tata, Tatochka
• Vadim → Vadik, Vadimka, Vadya, Vadisha, Vadyusha
• Valeriy → Valera, Valerka, Valerik
• Valeria → Lera, Lerusha, Lerka, Valera
• Viacheslav → Slava, Slavik, Vyachik, Slavyan, Slavutich
• Viktor → Vitya, Viten'ka, Vit'ka, Vityok, Vityay
• Vitaly → Vitalik, Vitalya, Vyetal
• Viktoriya → Vika, Vita, Vikulechka, Vikusik
• Vladimir → Volodya, Volod'ka, Voloden'ka, Vova, Vovka, Vovochka, Vovan
• Vladislav → Vlad, Vladik, Vladyusha, Vladya, Slava, Slavik
• Yaroslav → Yarik, Yaroshka, Slava, Slavik, Slavochka
• Yefim → Fima, Fimochka
• Yekaterina → Katerina, Katya, Katechka, Katen'ka, Katyukha, Katyusha, Kat'ka
• Yevgeny → Zhenya, Zhen'ka, Zheka, Zhenyok, Zhenechka
• Yevgenia → Zhenya, Zhenechka, Zhen'ka
• Yuriy → Yura, Yurka, Yurik, Yurok

Some names can also be modified with a -ka ending to add a further level of familiarity, but are not normally used for adults who are not family members.

 

 

And of course, most importantly, Wetschmertz is not actually your name, or a name at all.

Actually, Ellie is a nickname for Eleanor. A fine English name.

This is Eleanor. 

Makes you want to do bad things in the dark.

Ohfour wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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Ohfour wrote:

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You dont get to bring your culture into our house. Its up to you to adapt. Not us....

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 And it's NOT your board.

Supposedly you have a Canadian friend. If she asked you not to call her a certain nickname, what would you do?

flan

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 BTW, is not a Canadian thing. Its a Russian thing....shes French Canadian.

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 I know welts' heritage.

flan

lilyofcourse wrote:

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This is Eleanor. 

Makes you want to do bad things in the dark.

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 OMG That is so me!