Hi! If you wanted to go for a similarly sounding name to preserve the phonetic integrity, I'd suggest Мария (Maria) because the Russian diminutive for it is Маша (Masha), which is similar to Misha. It's also historically accurate for that time period, as far as I know. Let me know if that doesn't fit, I could try coming up with more suggestions if you're going for a different vibe.

So take "Schatz" and turn Medic into Gollum by translating it as "precious". Which wouldn't be the obvious translation as "treasure" makes more sense, but precious was translated as Schatz for Lord of the Rings sp we ball.

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Scout: I think there's only one.

Heavy: I thought there are many Bigfeet across the country.

Sorry I’m not Russian so I don’t really know much on this topic, but I just figured since Mikhail is shortened to Misha that they would have names like that too, unless I’m wrong. Again sorry if this is phrased weirdly, I’m just a little curious/confused haha

Kinda like, idk, English having the possessive apostrophe, or reduplication in some languages signifying that a word is plural.

TWO WORDS FOR "BLUE".

These are not the same color! In Russian they are голубой and синий respectively! A RAINBOW HAS SEVEN COLORS IN IT! English stole so many words from other languages but just this once I wish it had stolen more.

It also doesn't have as many diminutives as Russian does. I think the nickname-y suffixes count as diminutives? Like "Bill" -> "Billy" or some such. But you can't make words tiny and cutesy in English. It sucks.

Another thing is the opposite of a diminutive, which google says is called "augmentative" but I think it's wrong? Anywho, I want to be able to make words bigger via suffixes. Like. Друг (friend) - дружище (big friend). Дом (house) - домище (big house).

Same for adjectives. Красивый (beautiful) - красивенький (little beautiful). Большой (big) - большущий (big big!). I want to say big big in English. This shit rocks.

I also miss "а". Okay, lemme explain. English has two basic sentence linking words: "and" and "but". One inplies sinilarity, the other one - contradiction.

Russian has "и" for similarity, "но" for contradiction... And "а". It's kind of like. It's still adversarial but not contradictory. It's a very "but what about x?" vibe. It's so hard to explain.

"Я пришёл, а ты - нет!" - "I came, but/and you didn't!" - I'm bringing up two different subjects, they're opposite one another, they did opposite things, but they don't contradict each other, so there's really no "but", but you have to put a "but" because a butt is an arse and arse and on the grass auwueueueueue

alternatively spy

Heavy, in his head: My friend, I have found your weapon, but it appears to have been dulled by the harsh environment of the desert and by the frequency of its use. I must warn you of its poor condition because I know how much you rely on it, and I worry about your well-being in battle.