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[musesfool]

My Russian-speaking friends - or you know, Russian-speaking people who are reading this, I don't want to label our relationship if you're not comfortable with that - what's a cute Russian name for a tiny puppy? Like the kind of thing you'd give to the runt of the litter but also the kind of thing where you nickname a big guy Tiny or a bald guy

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[caughtinanocean]

Hm, idk if I've ever seen the whole big-guys-called-Tiny thing in Russian, but I'm almost sure it happens. Will have to ask the parents. "Бегемот" (Begimot), which mean hippo, would be a pretty cute name for a dog along those lines. It would probably get called things like "Бегемоша" (Begemosha) a lot, since in Russian you infantilize stuff by adding suffixes. "Медведь" (Medved') means bear, and "Медвежонок" (Medvezhonok) means cub, and that would cute, too.

If you just want straight-up little names: "Малыш" (Malish) means "little one," and "Чебурашка" (Cheburashka) is a character on a super iconic Russian cartoon everyone has seen. He is a furry animal of indeterminate species, and is friends with/rescued by a crocodile named Гена (Gena). Actually, "Крокодил Гена" probably wouldn't be a terrible name for a dog, either. I'll come back with more ideas if I think of them. Going back and forth between Russian and English on my keys is starting to make both languages look weird!

[musesfool]

"Бегемот" (Begimot), which mean hippo, would be a pretty cute name for a dog along those lines. It would probably get called things like "Бегемоша" (Begemosha) a lot, since in Russian you infantilize stuff by adding suffixes.

Ah, that's so cute! I might use that! (I'm pretty sure that's how it works in Italian, too - adding "-ino" makes something small and adding "-one" makes it big, though I never spoke it fluently and it's been years since I had it in school.)

And thank you! (I forgot to say it!)

[caughtinanocean]

Any time! :) *face palms aggressively at own typo*

[kattahj]

I was just reading this comment out of general interest, but then I noticed Cheburashka and went "OMG Drutten!" This figure was highly popular in Sweden too, enough that Swedish television started to produce its own episodes of "Drutten och Gena." (That the name Drutten is so far from Cheburashka I think is because it connects to the etymology - "Drutta" means to fall inelegantly.) There were even Drutten candy drops!

I found a clip on YouTube of Drutten & Gena singing a song...

Sorry, you probably don't care, I was just hit with immense childhood nostalgia and had to share.

[rachelmanija]

Snowpiercer: Did you see the American cut, or the original?

Is there graphic violence to animals or small children?

[musesfool]

As far as I know, it was the original.

There is a fish that gets sliced to pieces in a menacing way (not for food purposes), if that is included under animals, and violence towards babies is discussed though we don't actually see it (well, there is also harm to a pregnant woman), as well as two ~5yo kids being kidnapped.

[prunesquallormd]

It doesn't seem like Snowpiercer is coming to the UK (either that, or it's come and gone and I completely missed it) but it does look pleasingly atmospheric, if a little, over the top.

[musesfool]

No, it wasn't released in English-speaking countries because the Weinstein Company has the distribution rights and they had a big dispute with the director over cuts they wanted to make. They eventually came to a deal so it will allegedly be released in the US, at least, at some point, but it hasn't been yet. It was released last summer in France and South Korea (and possible elsewhere?) and is out on dvd there, so there are torrents etc.

It's very graphically violent, is what it is.