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Fredek's father, and Nick's namesake and grandfather. He shows up approximately never, but I wanted to draw him anyway, so there's that!
That may or may not say "Nikolai Zieu", the internet has lied to me before.
Nikolai and Art (c) J. "Rehgan" Fitzmaurice
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It's okay - I'd never learn without making mistakes! So Николай is the proper way to spell Nikolai? (Someone else is helping me figure out how to get "Zieu" right, so don't feel bad)
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Yeah. The only mistake is you added ц before the к. Which, on a Russian keyboard, the letters are right next to each other. xP
How is Zieu meant to be pronounced? Is each letter pronounced? Or is it zee-oo? Or is the ie just barely pronounced? Just depends on how it's said. But it doesn't seem like it'd be too hard to do. :D
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Good to know - thank you!
It's pronounced Zey-oo / Zey-yuu (depending on how hard someone makes the last syllable). After a little back and forth, they suggested Зeю or Зейу - or even what I'd used in the first place. Any thoughts? :D
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Ah ha. Well in that case, Зею might be the best choice, because of how Russian has variable stress and palatized vowels. BUT! It is still up to you, I guess, how you would prefer the pronunciation of such a name: id est, would you have the stress on ю or е. Btw, you could even have the е changed to э, in the event that you do not want the Z (з) to be palatized. (1. э is the unpalatized version of е. э is like the e in "bed" and е.. well it's palatized. 2. If you use е instead of э, Zieu would then be pronounced something like "zye-yoo". There's no good way to express palatization in English via text, because English only palatizes words... mainly on accident. Lol. It's not a feature inherent in English, as it is in Russian.)
And please forgive the splurge of information there. I'm a linguist. And I've been drinking. PLS2FORGIVE
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FORGIVEN. For I have learned things in general and about you! I thank you for your help. I'll have to ruminate on all this awhile, language isn't my forte!
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I don't wanna ruin it. But you misspelled Николай. D: