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On December 03 2011 10:33 Qaatar wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 10:26 babylon wrote:On December 03 2011 10:21 Qaatar wrote:On December 03 2011 10:19 babylon wrote:
Russian nicknames have always confused me, because I can't really see how they shorten. =X
Alexander --> Alex
Daniel --> Dan
Jonathan --> Jon or John
Stuff like this makes sense to me. Though, admittedly, I've never understood Robert --> Bob.
The Vladimir shortening is bemusing, and I've never understood how Nikolai --> Kolya. I think it's an issue with transliteration, or in other words, alternate ways of spelling the same anglicized name. So for example, Dmytro can also be spelled as Dimitro, and thus, Dima for short. I don't think it's a transliteration issue. I can read Cyrillic, and it still makes no sense to me. =/ I feel like I should find some Slavic linguist and ask if there's a general rule for Russian nicknames. You can read Cyrillic? Wow. But yeah, that would be really interesting. I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocorism#Russian , which doesn't explain the why, but mentions that there's a loose pattern involved.
Thanks for the link! And holy shit, nicknames. @__@
I took a year and a half of Russian, so it'd be sad if I couldn't read Cyrillic, ahaha. My speaking's pretty much gone, and my hearing's never been good, but at least I can read it. The alphabet's really easy to pick up if you just sit down with it -- not much harder than any other alphabet, at least. And there are certainly harder languages.
On December 03 2011 10:38 razy wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 10:32 babylon wrote:On December 03 2011 10:28 razy wrote:On December 03 2011 10:26 babylon wrote:On December 03 2011 10:21 Qaatar wrote:On December 03 2011 10:19 babylon wrote:
Russian nicknames have always confused me, because I can't really see how they shorten. =X
Alexander --> Alex
Daniel --> Dan
Jonathan --> Jon or John
Stuff like this makes sense to me. Though, admittedly, I've never understood Robert --> Bob.
The Vladimir shortening is bemusing, and I've never understood how Nikolai --> Kolya. I think it's an issue with transliteration, or in other words, alternate ways of spelling the same anglicized name. So for example, Dmytro can also be spelled as Dimitro, and thus, Dima for short. I don't think it's a transliteration issue. I can read Cyrillic, and it still makes no sense to me. =/ I feel like I should find some Slavic linguist and ask if there's a general rule for Russian nicknames. the twists are usually random man  i can't get the way they were created myself but somehow everyone knows them or is instantly able to understand what they stand for :D TT It was really difficult reading Russian novels where the author would just switch between the characters' nicknames and actual names and they looked nothing alike. I have a hard enough time keeping track of characters, much less characters referred to with two names at a time.  haha, now imagine me trying to figure out tones of different interpretations for each word in english (and those don't have any logical connection either :D)
As a native English speaker, I don't even know what you mean by "tones of different interpretations." That sounds hellish though. D:
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I love you bratok, mech on this map is the only way to win =D really excited to see him mech tvz he had such great tvt mech before the BF nerf
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On December 03 2011 10:39 razy wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 10:38 Pulimuli wrote:On December 03 2011 10:35 Pirat6662001 wrote:
I am crying right now, WHY cant Russia ever get any good Starcraft players? We have 0 titles as a country. Its an embarrassment to a country of 140 million.
This was a Plat level game from Brat_Ok and he might let down his country once again are you high? ever heard of Androide? he's one of the best foreigners ever (in sc:bw) in sc2 you have BRAT_OK and Happy, they might not be as good as the bw foreigners were but they're not bad by any means i'm sure he is talking about sc2 every russian should know our epic bw lineup :O
If he's sad he should look at brazil pros lineup. Only reason is borderline considerable.
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Wow, what just happened with all of those cancels?
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On December 03 2011 10:40 Nick.TNA wrote:
Not to be a total and complete noob, but could someone tell me who is casting with Mr. Bitter? He sounds familiar, but I can't put my finger on who it is :D.
Thanks!
Rotterdam
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On December 03 2011 10:41 astroorion wrote:
Wow, what just happened with all of those cancels?
mass cancel on sim city, standard vodka inspired play tbh
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Those Hellions were worth it just for those mass cancels...
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On December 03 2011 10:39 sunnata wrote:
lol, who cares about Russian pride these days? Those time are long gone.. =)
so true.
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bratok is in a really good spot, thors already out and spire not even done
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This NASL is so much more fucking epic than last year's.
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On December 03 2011 10:42 Xoronius wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 10:40 Nick.TNA wrote:
Not to be a total and complete noob, but could someone tell me who is casting with Mr. Bitter? He sounds familiar, but I can't put my finger on who it is :D.
Thanks! Rotterdam
Ah thank you! Sounds familiar from WC3, no wonder I couldn't figure it out haha.
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On December 03 2011 10:41 dmnum wrote:Show nested quote +On December 03 2011 10:39 razy wrote:On December 03 2011 10:38 Pulimuli wrote:On December 03 2011 10:35 Pirat6662001 wrote:
I am crying right now, WHY cant Russia ever get any good Starcraft players? We have 0 titles as a country. Its an embarrassment to a country of 140 million.
This was a Plat level game from Brat_Ok and he might let down his country once again are you high? ever heard of Androide? he's one of the best foreigners ever (in sc:bw) in sc2 you have BRAT_OK and Happy, they might not be as good as the bw foreigners were but they're not bad by any means i'm sure he is talking about sc2 every russian should know our epic bw lineup :O If he's sad he should look at brazil pros lineup. Only reason is borderline considerable.
Reason was a beast in his days, maybe not so much now though but he barely plays anyway 
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On December 03 2011 10:40 TheDougler wrote:
Cancel CC... I'm not even sure that gives you any sort of advantage. What are you going to do with that 300 minerals? You don't have zerg production capabilities, you've got raxes, and a limited number of them.
Only tricking the zerg into making a ton of drones thinking you're gonna expand but it was completely useless this game because dimaga was already preparing for an allin before he even started the fake CC.
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Uh oh Dimaga
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Omfg, burn all those larva...
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Wow, thor rush, new tvz meta? lol.
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On December 03 2011 10:35 Pirat6662001 wrote:
I am crying right now, WHY cant Russia ever get any good Starcraft players? We have 0 titles as a country. Its an embarrassment to a country of 140 million.
This was a Plat level game from Brat_Ok and he might let down his country once again
China has about 10x Russia's population. Stop feeling bad, and population has nothing to do with it anyways.
Btw, you guys had  Androide. I heard that he was....you know...pretty good.
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