Re: "New World": Little Russia (Malaja Rus'), Texas

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Danny Wier wrote:

>  The Cyrillic script used is not much different from the
> pre-Soviet alphabet (it still has the letters i, jat, izhitsa and
> fita), except umlauted a, o and u are also used, along with an sz
> ligature: ß(which is rarely used actually since Cyrillic has letters
> for /s/, /z/ and /ts/ already).
I'm trying to imagine what a Cyrillic ligature for "sz" would look
like, and how it would be written.  I think in handwriting especially
it would be absolutely indistinguishable from the two-letter sequence,
and so would not be felt as a proper letter, but more like the
"typesetter's ligatures" fi, fl, etc. which are totally subconscious.

> DubYa.
Is this a reference to the would-be U.S. president, your fellow-countryman?

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"