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Weird names in books

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:42:31 No.7285417 View Reply Report Delete

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I was reading a non-fiction book which talks about a guy named "Semen N. Semenov", who was a MIT graduate Soviet spy living in America. Who was called frickin' Semen N. Semenov. That was his name. What the actual fuck?

Anyone else seen any weird as fuck names in books?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:48:06 No.7285439 Report Delete

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:49:37 No.7285447 Report Delete

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:02:10 No.7285487 Report Delete

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Poulet-Malassis, a famous editor, whose name literally means "poorly seated chicken".

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:13:53 No.7285543 Report Delete

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Semen is another translation of what's traditionally "Semyon." So rather than SEE-min, it's more like "SEM-yin". Semyon N. Semyonov.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:15:57 No.7285555 Report Delete

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>>7285543
The Western equivalent would be Simon, right?

The name is only weird from an English perspective. It's like 'Simon N. Simonson'

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:20:15 No.7285577 Report Delete

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>>7285555
Pretty sure Tolstoy has Alexey Alexandrovitch and similar things. Russian has the weirdest naming conventions.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:29:43 No.7285615 Report Delete

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>>7285543
That makes it no less baffling. Why did he go to America and call himself Semen N. Semenov?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:41:40 No.7285683 Report Delete

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:45:21 No.7285700 Report Delete

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Well, "ov" names are son of, just like you said, Simon N. (patronymic) Simonson

Just like there are those O'X or MacX

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:49:12 No.7285717 Report Delete

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>>7285577
ovitch is the Russian equivalent of -son. So Johnson means son of John and petrovitch means son of petr

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:54:29 No.7285736 Report Delete

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Poor Russians couldn't figure out Jr., huh.

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