Ice cream was invented by John Scream in 2003 when some cold milk got into his eye by accident

It would be faster if it didn’t have to squeeze past the private cars filling the lanes

Finally, a sequel to Velocipastor

What you’ve got there is a tankie

Constantly talking to your colleagues degrades the work quality, if anything. I don’t need to hear rumors about our manager’s ex to be able to work on projects

NOT THE BEES

Already preparing a place for him to run away to?

Do they also integrate the buttplug support?

Welcome to the future, old man

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Identity Theft doesn’t quite have the same ring to it

Some people, in fact, still have hands growing out of their ass

And I sincerely doubt any of them were civilians

In a medium, which is an important distinction

There really isn’t one singular way to derive shortened/informal forms from full names. Some names have multiple possible derivatives, too, and you’d probably need to just figure them out on a case by case basis.

If you want an extra formal way to address someone, you can use first name + patronym, like Ivan Petrovych (Ivan, son of Petro) which is often the default when speaking to elders or superiors. Addressing someone by their last name is rather rare, unless it’s their preferred nickname or if you want to emphasize on it.

As another comment mentioned, there also isn’t really a pattern to masculine/feminine versions of names either. Some names have common versions of both genders (Oleksandr/Oleksandra), for some one gender is more commonly used (for example, masculine Bohdan is more common than feminine Bohdana) and some only have one gender version (like Mykyta that you mentioned).

If you have questions about usage of specific names or name forms, I’d be happy to answer!

Shrikes are my favourite cute little fluffy psychopaths. Cats could never.