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One interesting consequence of the Latin-Cyrillic split in America is that Cyrillic names got transliterated into English-understandable ones, whereas Polish La
by keiferski 2y ago
One 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.