There is only one possible response to that.WWGD said:
You damn right. Can you dig it?fresh_42 said:
And the last quarter will be the toughest!DennisN said:
Its standard version fits better: Polish instead of Russian.WWGD said:
But his name is clearly Polish.WWGD said:
No, it will only shift it from those that use the latin alphabet to those that use the Cyrillic.fresh_42 said:
I am skeptical about your reduction to a mere shift. Russian has a couple of sh-sounds and each one has its own Cyrillic letter. Writing these letters with the Latin alphabet requires constructions with "c", "z", "t", "ch", "sh" and combinations of them. This is way more than a "shift". You can find similar constructions in Hungarian where "s", "cs", "sz" all mean something different.martinbn said:
That I'd be sceptical of.martinbn said:
Well, I am Bulgarian and I have no idea how to write that (or most) Polish name in Cyrillic. To me it will be equally aukward and strange. The joke would accually work well in my language too.fresh_42 said:
I didn't mean that it is an actual name. I mean that it is made to look Polish, not Russian. The joke works better with Polish (at least for some, for most it would be the same).Bandersnatch said:
WWGD said:
I understand. I just disagree that it looks Polish. Speaking as a Pole, I'd peg the 'first name' as maybe Czech, and the 'surname' as either Russian or Ukrainian. These are of course completely garbled bundles of meaningless letters, but certain clusters are characteristic of a language. Which is what the joke hinges on. E.g. there's plenty surnames here ending with the stereotypical '-ski' but you won't find one where the /s/ is voiced to make a z as rendered above. Similarly, ending '-ij' is something common beyond our Eastern border but rare here. One or two other clusters raise the eyebrow like that.martinbn said:
