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The creator, Alexey Pajitnov, was eventually able to see some money from his creation after emigrating to the US and cofounding The Tetris Company. The Gaming H

by mafuyu 4y ago

The creator, Alexey Pajitnov, was eventually able to see some money from his creation after emigrating to the US and cofounding The Tetris Company. The Gaming Historian channel has a great documentary video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8

asveikau 4y ago
Kind of a tangent, but it'd weird to me that this man chooses to transcribe ж as j in his surname. Typically ж would be zh, and I think of j as a palatal consonant. I had to look up the Cyrillic spelling of his name to be sure I wasn't misunderstanding. I guess some English speakers would be more comfortable with J for that sound.
- pbj1968 4y ago
  Takes a special kind of person to correct another on the pronunciation of their own name.
  - asveikau 4y ago
    The pronunciation is not something I'm disputing. I'm talking about romanization of the Cyrillic alphabet. There are a few established standards, ж is typically zh or ž, and j has common use as a different sound. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian In that table, literally none of the standards cited use j for ж. J is often used for й, or part of я, ю, ё.
    - lIl-IIIl 4y ago
      The same article says: In Soviet international passports, transliteration was based on French rules but without diacritics and so all names were transliterated in a French-style system. "French-style system" links to this article in French: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_du_russe_en_fran%C3%A7ais https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_du_russe_en_fr..., which transliterates ж to j. It is confusing that this mapping is missing from the table in the English article.
- DenisM 4y ago
  He might not have had a choice in the matter - the passport issued by the Soviet / Russian authorities had the spelling chosen by the authority, not by the person. It’s possible to change your spelling in the US documents but now different documents have different spelling.

by mafuyu 4y ago

asveikau 4y ago

Kind of a tangent, but it'd weird to me that this man chooses to transcribe ж as j in his surname. Typically ж would be zh, and I think of j as a palatal consonant. I had to look up the Cyrillic spelling of his name to be sure I wasn't misunderstanding. I guess some English speakers would be more comfortable with J for that sound.

pbj1968 4y ago
Takes a special kind of person to correct another on the pronunciation of their own name.
- asveikau 4y ago
  The pronunciation is not something I'm disputing. I'm talking about romanization of the Cyrillic alphabet. There are a few established standards, ж is typically zh or ž, and j has common use as a different sound. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian In that table, literally none of the standards cited use j for ж. J is often used for й, or part of я, ю, ё.
  - lIl-IIIl 4y ago
    The same article says: In Soviet international passports, transliteration was based on French rules but without diacritics and so all names were transliterated in a French-style system. "French-style system" links to this article in French: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_du_russe_en_fran%C3%A7ais https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_du_russe_en_fr..., which transliterates ж to j. It is confusing that this mapping is missing from the table in the English article.
DenisM 4y ago
He might not have had a choice in the matter - the passport issued by the Soviet / Russian authorities had the spelling chosen by the authority, not by the person. It’s possible to change your spelling in the US documents but now different documents have different spelling.