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The П here is uppercase Pi, not P in Cyrillic. The original name of BESM is БЭСМ, Бйстродействуйусхцхайа Електроннайа Сцхотнайа Масхина, i.e. "High-Speed Electr
by Etheryte 3y ago
The П here is uppercase Pi, not P in Cyrillic. The original name of BESM is БЭСМ, Бйстродействуйусхцхайа Електроннайа Сцхотнайа Масхина, i.e. "High-Speed Electronic Computing Machine [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESM
- andrewshadura 3y agoWow, someone’s really butchered the actual name, Большая/быстродействующая электронно-счётная машина.
- mynegation 3y agoБыстродействущая Электронная Счетная Машина. Your Cyrillic seems to be doubly transliterated.
- m2fkxy 3y agoreminds me this hotel receptionist in Russia who, when writing my name down the registration paper (visa reasons), did so with this same double/direct transliteration (eg, "shch" to "схцх"). gave me a funny name in the end, and a good chuckle)
- asveikau 3y agoReminds me of a story: My father's parents were Lithuanian, so I have their surname, but I am American. In 2011 I had a Russian visa for a short trip to Moscow. They transliterated my name in a way that I don't think a Lithuanian travelling to Russia would have. Notably, Š was С and not Ш because the diacritic obviously won't appear on my US passport. I think they also had И where I might have put Й.
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- Jim_Heckler 3y agoThat's a very odd way to transliterate, especially considering the shch in Khrushchev is the latinization of the letter щ
- ummonk 3y agoAh so before there was PyPy there was PiPi.