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Along with an interesting story, the Russian-language flyer has fascinating Runglish words, phrasing and grammar. "Кливланд" (Cleveland) is spelled with "а" at

by yaky 2y ago

Along with an interesting story, the Russian-language flyer has fascinating Runglish words, phrasing and grammar. "Кливланд" (Cleveland) is spelled with "а" at the end, which makes the pronunciation "Cleev-lahnd". The modern version is "Кливленд", which is pronounced almost the same as English. "Мувис" is just transliterated "Movies". I suppose the movies were new enough that the current words "кино(театр)" (kino(theater)) and "фильм" (film) were not in use within the diaspora. "От'езд" uses an apostrophe instead of ъ, which is what Ukrainian uses. E.g: "від'їзд". "Все идем видеть его" sounds odd. Maybe an English-structured sentence written in Russian, or maybe just the grammar of the times.

comonoid 2y ago
An apostrophe instead of ъ was sometimes artifact of using an old typewriter (1920th). One hero of literature wondered why all the words are written with ъ (where appropriate), but об'явление (an advertisement on a bulletin board in this context) was invariably written with an apostrophe. Well, many advertisements on boards was typewritten, and even handwritten advertisement started to follow this spelling, and even when typewriter was produced with ъ, this spelling persisted in this context. But it may be an urban legend. Upd: sometime this "legend" says that after the spelling reform of 1918 the ъ at the end of words was banned, this letter was forced to be removed from typewriter as well (though it may be used in a middle of words). The article on this reform in Russian Wikipedia mentions, that for the same reason ъ was seized from typographies to restrict its usage. In both cases an apostrophe was used instead. It seems these facts are consistent with each other and this particular usage of the apostrophe.

by yaky 2y ago

comonoid 2y ago

An apostrophe instead of ъ was sometimes artifact of using an old typewriter (1920th). One hero of literature wondered why all the words are written with ъ (where appropriate), but об'явление (an advertisement on a bulletin board in this context) was invariably written with an apostrophe. Well, many advertisements on boards was typewritten, and even handwritten advertisement started to follow this spelling, and even when typewriter was produced with ъ, this spelling persisted in this context. But it may be an urban legend. Upd: sometime this "legend" says that after the spelling reform of 1918 the ъ at the end of words was banned, this letter was forced to be removed from typewriter as well (though it may be used in a middle of words). The article on this reform in Russian Wikipedia mentions, that for the same reason ъ was seized from typographies to restrict its usage. In both cases an apostrophe was used instead. It seems these facts are consistent with each other and this particular usage of the apostrophe.