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It doesn't resemble the Cyrillic letter---it is it. "R" is an English letter but not a Cyrillic one, and "Я" is a Cyrillic letter but not an English one, and by
by pc2g4d 9y ago
It doesn't resemble the Cyrillic letter---it is it. "R" is an English letter but not a Cyrillic one, and "Я" is a Cyrillic letter but not an English one, and by flipping them horizontally you transform them into each other. I imagine for many of the 7,574,303 people in Russia who speak English and probably also a fair chunk of the 854,955 Americans who speak Russian (and presumably have mastered both alphabets), it's annoying. Not a huge deal, just annoying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language_in_the_United...
- Dylan16807 9y agoThere are so many symbols from different languages that resemble each other. If I use a smiley face, that doesn't mean I used a "ü" or a "ツ" from another alphabet just because it looks similar. A backwards R is visually the same as a Cyrillic character, but that doesn't mean I'm writing in Cyrillic, just like a "P" is visually the same as a Cyrillic character but doesn't mean I'm writing in Cyrillic.