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ur-friendly-nbhd-cardassian · 3 months

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Seriously, it's not so hard to find a Slavic person to consult when you're coming up with a Slavic character for any media. The number of inacuracies in that is astounding. As if we were an extinct nation and the only information about us was in inelligible scripture experts struggled to translate.

You don't have to pull stuff out of your ass. We are real people and we're not savages, either, we do have internet. Don't you wanna be the cool sort of Westerner, who knows how to present their Slavic character without making them wrong and cringe? Wouldn't it feel nice to know your audience appreciates your efforts instead of thinking you're an idiot?

Don't be an idiot.

#slavic #writing #characters #there are rules in naming many of our nations follow #not a bad idea to learn about them before you go picking out a “cool” name #deities give me strength -_-#and for dummies:#yes Slavic people are mainly Russian people (by the sheer number of them)#but as you might be aware there are others #like Czech (hello)#but (especially) Americans don't seem to grasp the intricate differences of European nations #and English speaking nations (especially those who don't have a second official language) have real trouble understanding #how language changes the rules of naming #it's okay to make mistakes #but please learn from them whenever you realize that you've made them #don't make “cringe wrong Russians” into a thing other people copy to not sound fake instead of actually portraying them authentically

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