Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Wednesday, December 31, 2003, 19:27 |
|---|
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:37:21PM +0200, Isaac Penzev wrote:
> > Here's the system which is used daily in Russia:
> >
> > a b v g d e yo zh z i y k l m n o p r s t u f kh ts ch sh sch ' y ' e yu ya
So "e" is used for both е and э, and ' is used for both znaks?
That would seem to be ambiguous and inconsistent with the other
palatalizing vowels. Why not ye for е?
> > No one writes Jel'cin btw. You can see Eltzin or Eltsin
> > in the newspapaers depending on the language.
>
> Or Yeltzin.
Boris is always <Yeltsin> over here. The spelling <tz> seems very odd; for
one thing, it would never actually be pronounced [tz] but either [ts] or
[dz]. I can guess it derives from languages where <z> itself represents
[ts], but then the <t> is either redundant or geminate . . .
-Mark
Reply