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0 pointsegorfine3y ago0 comments

As a Ukrainian I can feel the pain.

Some people in the government renamed the english spelling of my city into an unreadable alphabet soup. Not only they strongly insist the whole world to spell it this way, they also deem everyone who doesn't like it a traitor.

So, spelling matters. A lot. Unfortunately.

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mlindner3y ago

I'm not sure how this is related to this case? Isn't there still a cyrillic spelling of your city? Did they change that one as well? I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the English spelling to match the cyrillic one. Is it the same?

Koshkin3y ago

There are two Cyrillic spellings, one being Ukrainian and one Russian. Previously the transliterations were based on the Russian spelling.

mlindner3y ago

Ah I see. I think that's fine given the current conditions. However at some point, long after this war, it'd be nice to see Ukraine endorse a policy of multilingualism, as many other European countries seem to manage just fine.

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0 pointsegorfine3y ago0 comments

As a Ukrainian I can feel the pain.

So, spelling matters. A lot. Unfortunately.

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mlindner3y ago

Koshkin3y ago

There are two Cyrillic spellings, one being Ukrainian and one Russian. Previously the transliterations were based on the Russian spelling.

mlindner3y ago

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