Thread: Голубчик

Привет пацанам (и старикам)!

Ok, so they story is this: I watched собачье сердце and noticed the word голубчик. So, I started liking that word, and used it very diligently in my conversations with my Russian acquaintences. Then, one native Russian girl tells me, after calling her голубчик, that one never says that to a girl, but rather голубушка. But then another friend reads Война и Мир and there they say голубчик to girls.

That was a long intro. The question is simple:

Can one say голубчик to women?
Who is right? Соверменная русская девушка или Лев Николаевич Толстой?

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Can one say голубчик to women?
Who is right? Соверменная русская девушка или Лев Николаевич Толстой?

I'd side with the girl. Things might have been different back then, but nowadays "голубчик" seems to be applicable to males only.

One more point about using this word,
The word has a stylistic shade of unceremonious treatment.
As for me, I would be insulted if somebody called me so.
Nowadays голубушка/голубчик is rarely used, I may say it became an archaism.

that's true голубчик is used only for male, but it could be used ironicly to women sometime too, that depands in what context it was said, in the place you read it.

Да, женщине можно сказать "голубушка". Но, действительно, это звучит очень архаично.

http://bard.bashnet.ru/mp3/audio2/vmr.k ... na0103.mp3

Thanks all! I know it might sound a little archaic to say such a word to anyone, but it definitely makes people smile. And that is my business, to make people smile.

But now I know for sure that male=голубчик and female=голубушка. Thanks!

I've heard Golubka, without the sh.

Originally Posted by TATY

I've heard Golubka, without the sh.

Голубка - female pigeon, dove и тоже dear/darling
Голубь, голубок

Живут, как голубь с голубкой (мирно и любя друг друга)

Oh, please, don't call your male friends голубок.
Where I came from it was just another word for gay.
Голубчик is perfectly ok. But golubok might be offensive.

My 2 cents. Both "голубчик" and "голубушка" sound archaic. "Голубчик" according to classic literature was quite often used by nobel and/or rich toward servants and/or poor as a polite address to lower-level people. As such it can be viewed as a sign of polite contempt.

"Голубушка" is just an archaic lovesome word.

Originally Posted by CTPEKO3A

Oh, please, don't call your male friends голубок.
Where I came from it was just another word for gay.
Голубчик is perfectly ok. But golubok might be offensive.

I thought it was Пидор... should it be пидорами?

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

I thought it was Пидор... should it be пидорами?

Иф ю а со интрестинг ин зэт кайнд оф стафф чек зыс аут http://www.padonak.lv

Originally Posted by DagothWarez

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

I thought it was Пидор... should it be пидорами?

Иф ю а со интрестинг ин зэт кайнд оф стафф чек зыс аут http://www.padonak.lv

Иф ю а со интрестэд ин зыс кайнд оф стафф чек зыс аут

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Иф ю а со интрестэд ин зыс кайнд оф стафф чек зыс аут

Spasibo chto popravil. Айм блашинг олреди.

Ай лайк ёр Инглиш - невер юзд ит зыс вэй.

DagothWarez, I don't mess around with padonki too much, so, with all these pictures, you really made my day.

Кстати, я вспомнил, есть отличная вещь, написанная группой "Чугунный скороход", под названием "Пид*ры идут!"
Могу дать ссылку на песню.