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M'rella is 85% done

"Sukatch." At first I thought it's male variation of "suka" - bitch. LMAO 😂 OK, a bit extravagant, but OK. But then there is translation "Russian for snitch". WHAT? Smack in another rather tragic scene. WTF?
"sTukach" means "snitch" from word "stuck" (rhymes with "cook"), as in a way to pass information between prison walls. It might have been a typo, but then again, as a native speaker for beta!! 😠

— Mar 12, 2020 10:00AM

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M'rella is 99% done

She has done it again at 99%! The final nail, so to speak. “Nichevo” is NOT a proper response to “Spasibo”, let alone it’s also misspelled. Don’t ever think you’ve learned something here.
I have an impression that if there was a native speaker, it was someone who was brought to GB as a child. My daughter and her Russian friends make same mistakes exactly and they are of a 4-5 year old.

— Mar 13, 2020 08:50AM

M'rella is 95% done

~~Novii Ruskii~~
Novii RusSkii. Double S. Two Ss. SS. S+S. ruSSkii

This is a complete disaster :(

— Mar 12, 2020 02:56PM

M'rella is 85% done

So, I don't understand. GR allows 420 characters for the updates, but cuts you short at 400?

Anyway, my latest update got messed up, but I figure it's not hard to fill in the blanks.
Barbara, seriously, there are Russian speaking members in M/M Romance, and any of us are happy to help.

— Mar 12, 2020 10:10AM

M'rella is 85% done

Продолжаем веселиться:
Следующее словечко - Сукач (это НЕ фамилие такое).
"Sukatch" - по простоте душевной мне cначала показалось что это вариант суки в мужском исполнении. Ан нет!
Это, оказывается, "сТукач"! Как автор дальше поясняет "Russian for snitch".
То ли буква Т у нее расшалилсь, то ли ей просто пофигу было (судя по предыдущим перлам), кто знает? Снова ржу, снова в середине напряженной сцены 😂

— Mar 12, 2020 09:49AM

M'rella is 72% done

Bratkin - Little brother? What the heck???
Bratik, bratok, bratan, bratishka.
Bratkin? Never heard of it.
*fumes* 😡
I am shocked that someone who consistently chooses to have Russian characters in their books has so little desire to get the language right, however little of it is actually in the book.

— Mar 12, 2020 05:04AM

M'rella is 62% done

— Mar 10, 2020 10:54PM

M'rella is 42% done

Доброе утро = Dobroye utro.

— Mar 09, 2020 10:56PM

M'rella is 42% done

”Dobraye ootro” ржунимагу! 😂
Что за чудак испортил автору текст? Ootro sounds plain creepy! Who told the author it’s ok to ignore the correct spelling?
Way to jerk a reader out of the book, especially from a very tense scene in which one of the MCs meets a person who can easily end him and his lover. I can’t take it seriously because of a sloppy phrase! *still laughing* 😝 One star off!

— Mar 09, 2020 10:46PM

M'rella is 5% done

Roman Nikitovich
Dmitri Arkadyevich
Both names are messed up in the book 😠

Why not ask a Russian member of GR to check Russian names? Why do writers keep ignoring native speakers? I don’t get it! 🤷‍♀️

— Mar 08, 2020 09:32PM