Onchukov - ANSWER TO translation question - Buravchik

[Olga Meerson]

Jan, All is perfect, except for the diminutive "little falcon". Perhaps "dearest falcon"? The problem with Russian diminutives as affectionate (not only Russian) and their untranslatability, is huge. Already Nabokov says about one of his philologically inapt characters that he understood Pushkin's nozhki as little feet, or the German fuesschen. Perhaps an affectionate should replace any reference to the diminutive entirely? 
o.m.

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