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Quinn Dombrowski
Quinn Dombrowski
Quinn Dombrowski
@quinnanya

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Quinn Dombrowski

@quinnanya

Non-English digital humanities at Stanford. Fond of medieval Slavic, infrastructure, and honest reflections on failure. Non-binary, any pronouns are fine.

Berkeley, CA
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Joined July 2007

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  1. Quinn Dombrowski‏ @quinnanya 37m37 minutes ago

    Made it through 11,788 Russian Harry Potter fanfic character names before encountering the annotation футанари. Thought it might be an older loanword, but nothing in the dictionary. Staring at the transliteration, I realized: it's Japanese. ふたなり for androgyny.

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    Quinn Dombrowski‏ @quinnanya

    Also enjoying the bifurcation between Russian Harry Potter fanfic writers who know how "Seamus" is supposed to be pronounced (Шеймус 'sheimus'), and the much larger pool of writers who go with the more intuitive Сим(м)ус 'seemus'.

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      1. 翻訳するポット ⚗‏ @potpotkettle 1m1 minute ago
        Replying to @quinnanya

        Is Симус his name in the official translation in Russian? I wonder how much of the Си- camp is knowingly do that because it's the official translation regardless of how the name in the original English text is supposed to sound.

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