#the way the audiobook narrator pronounced ''mara brankovic'' too..... no slavic people were consulted for this project's names f jsdakajkqf

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i want to clarify that i think Lada is a super pretty name!! i wouldn t associate it with romanian at all if i didn t know the character herself is supposed to be romanian - hence i think it s a bit of a silly choice on the author s part. if i heard it from anyone else i d only think of the goddess!

also: Lada is indeed not a romanian name, which is why i wouldn t think of romanian at all when hearing it. i guess Ladislav sort of is? it s clearly meant to be a form of Vladislav, which would normally be shortened to Vlad. Vladislav very much is a real romanian name, but i ve never met anyone in real life called that. (Vlad is common enough however) also also: nothing about Ladislav screams dainty and feminine as the book claims -- feminine names here rarely end in anything but a in the first place okay and last addition sorry: i do think Ladislav is an actual slavic name? just not very romanian. and if it were to be feminine, it would have to be Ladislava - i really don t think a wallachian voivode would ve named his daughter something that decidedly does not end in a

OH yes I agree with you! I am Slavic (Croatian to be exact) so I feel the same naming sensibilities, Ladislav is 10000% a manly man in my mind. I don't know much about Romania specifically outside the broadest strokes considering how regional differences and cultural influences work and I appreciate your POV!