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Offline mike

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« on: October 04, 2013, 07:31:13 AM »
Why do people who do not speak any Slavic language insist on having fancy Russian nicks and they end up having them with grammatical errors? I mean like improper gender or case or part of speech?

Eyes hurt. Seriously.
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2013, 07:39:32 AM »
Such a curmudgeon!
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2013, 08:33:48 AM »
In America, naming conventions are increasingly broken, forgotten or simply absent in certain subcultures.
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Re: Nicks
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2013, 08:43:51 AM »
Quote from: Michał Kalina on October 04, 2013, 07:31:13 AM
Why do people who do not speak any Slavic language insist on having fancy Russian nicks and they end up having them with grammatical errors? I mean like improper gender or case or part of speech?

Eyes hurt. Seriously.

Any eye-damaging examples?
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Re: Nicks
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2013, 09:01:16 AM »
podkarpatska, starodnevno, вєликаго
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