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section7mfu“It’s not the end of the world, Tovarisch. It just takes some people a little while to get their tongue around it, that’s all.”
“Compared to some of my countrymen, I have a name which is ridiculously easy to pronounce. I can accept her stressing the wrong syllable, I’m used to that from you, but how could she get it that wrong? I dread to imagine how badly she would have mangled Nikovitch.”
“Give her a break, she’s new here.
“How would you take it if she’d called you something like ‘Nappow-leyon Sollow’?”
“Not as badly as you, Eel-eye-yar Kerr-yay-keen.”
“Compared to some of my countrymen, I have a name which is ridiculously easy to pronounce. I can accept her stressing the wrong syllable, I’m used to that from you, but how could she get it that wrong? I dread to imagine how badly she would have mangled Nikovitch.”
“Give her a break, she’s new here.
“How would you take it if she’d called you something like ‘Nappow-leyon Sollow’?”
“Not as badly as you, Eel-eye-yar Kerr-yay-keen.”
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Date: 2015-07-08 08:40 pm (UTC)Nikovitch really winds me up. As everyone knows, it should Nikolayevitch (whichever spelling you prefer).