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> It works, but at the cost of your name being unintelligible to anyone west of Vienna. Same thing would still be true with cyrylic I believe.
by postepowanieadm 2y ago
> It works, but at the cost of your name being unintelligible to anyone west of Vienna.
Same thing would still be true with cyrylic I believe.
- keiferski 2y agoOne interesting consequence of the Latin-Cyrillic split in America is that Cyrillic names got transliterated into English-understandable ones, whereas Polish Latin names often didn’t. With the result that the originally-Cyrillic names are actually easier to understand in daily life. Compare for example, Kuznetsov (fairly easy to say in English) vs. Kwiatkowski (ported directly from Polish.)
- postepowanieadm 2y agoIt's a different issue not related with alphabet only with American tradition regarding Surnames. Same issue exists for example with Polish and Lithuanian both using latin alphabet.
- Koshkin 2y agoBut compare: The Polish "chrząszcz" vs. the Cyrillic "xрущ" vs. its usual transliteration into English as "khrusch".