WEB Griffin blows it this time

[2tallbill]

W.E.B. Griffin the author of many adventure books most regarding the
military decides to involve a character named Svetlana Alekseeva, who
is a Russian KGB agent who defects because of some kind of internal
politics regarding Saddams oil for food program.


The hero of the adventure book is named Colonel Charlie Castillo decides
to give her a "pet name" and everyone in the book calls her by this pet
name from that point on and Svetlana Alekseeva happily answers to it.


What was the pet name ???


SvetlAna, SvEta, SvEtochka, SvetlAnka, SvEtik ??


Any of those names would have been considered a term of endearment by
a sexy Russian spy girl. However Colonel Charlie Castillo decided to call her
Either SWEAT or SWEATY for the rest of the book !!!! others called her the
same!


There is no way on Gods green Earth that this would have been allowed by
a FSUW who was fluent in English and knew what sweat was. I cringed every
single time I read it.


This is the second book where "Sweaty" had this nickname, I can't believe that
he wasn't inundated with corrections. I sent him an email, but I can't believe that
he didn't get a thousand of them.


Bill 




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[2tallbill]

If he called her Sweet, or Sweeta I am sure he would have
been allowed but Hello perspiration my little Sweaty, blood
would have been involved and it wouldn't have been hers.


My dva kopecks


Bill

[acctBill]

Bill you're right I don't know of any Russian Svetlana that would willingly accept Sweaty as a nickname. Sveta, Lana even Vetty I've heard but never Sweaty. If Griffin emails you back please post his response.

[2tallbill]

Bill you're right I don't know of any Russian Svetlana that would willingly accept Sweaty as a nickname. Sveta, Lana even Vetty I've heard but never Sweaty. If Griffin emails you back please post his response.

If he does I will post it for sure


My email to WEB Griffin



Hello, I have read all of your novels and they have appeared to be very well
researched and consistent. However on putting together a pet name for
Svetlana Alekseeva you blew it. There is NO WAY that a Russian woman
would allow any man to call her either Sweaty or Sweat.

Sweety? Yes, Sweet? works too but Sweaty or Sweat? perspiration? no way
on Gods green Earth would she allow it to happen. I have dated several Russian
and Ukrainian women and I KNOW that it wouldn't just be stopped but stopped
immediately, possibly with blood (not hers) involved.

Once again I am a big fan, and await your next book

Udachi (good luck in Russian)

Bill