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[some_stars]

1. Am I...am I misspelling Natasha's name? Is it not a V? Do I need to re-spell my new favorite pairing smoosh?

2. I spent the entire afternoon sorting piles of documents, unstapling them, xeroxing them, restapling them, stapling the xeroxes, then filing the originals and putting the new copies back where the originals came from. In just four hours I used a staple remover more times than in my entire life up until this point. Towards the end I kept singing the Dean's song from last week's Community in my head: At this moment! I am staaaapling! It helped slightly. At least I didn't find a new and exciting way to break a nail like I did yesterday. And most of the days before.

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[settiai]

Am I...am I misspelling Natasha's name? Is it not a V? Do I need to re-spell my new favorite pairing smoosh?

I assume you're talking about Natasha from The Avengers? Her last name is technically Romanova (the feminine version of Romanov), but the Anglicized version is Romanoff which is how they appear to spell it in the movieverse.

[some_stars]

aw, man. I thought it was just -ov! This is because I know nothing of Russian, or looking shit up. Off to change a tumblr tag, then.

[settiai]

*nods*

Russian surnames tend to end with -ov, -ev, or -in in the masculine, and the feminine version has an "a" added to the end of those. It was one of the many things baby!me learned from Babylon 5 back in the early 90s.

[kore]

"Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander. Daughter of Andre and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth" &c &c.

via network :B

[gloss]

The -off is how the movie lists it, but that's a very outdated anglicization of the Russian.

No less than Nabokov argued for *not* preserving the feminine -a ending for Russian names, as for Anna Karenin.

[lilacsigil]

Her comics spelling (and apparently the spelling in the credits) is Romanov, though she uses Romanova when speaking Russian or to Russians. For some reason the movie went with Romanoff.

[kore]

I spent the entire afternoon sorting piles of documents, unstapling them, xeroxing them, restapling them, stapling the xeroxes, then filing the originals and putting the new copies back where the originals came from

Ohhh my God, that was like every job I ever had up until I got so crazy the gov't was all "Hey! You so crazy, baby! Have some money!" askflkasjfklj Especially the med school admissions office. Oh God. And then like THREE WEEKS before I quit that job, they went PAPERLESS.