Talk:Roach/@comment-1046693-20150807190743/@comment-95.82.135.141-20190926174111

Sweetie, no offence, but compared to Polish (and Czech, which is my mother tongue and very close to Polish) diminutives are minimal to non-existent in English. Yes, you can make familiar shortened versions of names and such, but it's not the same. The slavic languages use diminutives in ways you wouldn't dream of in English on virtually any noun or adjective even indicating affection and/or small size. From experience, these are often very difficult to translate to English, because except for the occasional "Smiffy", "Jonesy" or "Sallie" the language just doesn't have regular diminutive forms.