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Takes a special kind of person to correct another on the pronunciation of their own name.
by pbj1968 4y ago
Takes a special kind of person to correct another on the pronunciation of their own name.
- asveikau 4y agoThe 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 agoThe 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.