From: Vladimir Date: 2003-03-07T20:33:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and Python related in Cyrillic ;-) On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:51:47 +0900, Gennady wrote: > > On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 06:34 PM, Damon wrote: > >> ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in message . >>> >>> I took a semester of Russian at community college and one of the first >>> things you have to get is that some letters that look familiar to you >>> (they exist in the English alphabet) have been 'overloaded' with >>> different >>> phonemes (P->R, y->oo, B->V, etc.) I suspect the same happens for >>> Russians >>> learning English. >>> >>> Phil >> >> Interesting. Is there a list of words that are spelled the same in >> both English Latin and Russian Cyrillic alphabets, but are of course >> pronounced differently and mean different things? >> > > Gee, I couldn't come up with a single one, however I am sure there must > be some. In general, it is more common to see an English word migrate > into Russian and being spelled so that you may not even recognize it. > Like computer -- ��������� (you need to have cyrillic enabled in your > browser to properly see the letters). > > Gennady. > > Hi, Phil ! If you hear me :-) I don't know English pretty much. So, I should to present my apologies. I don't understood your curiosity to Russian phonetic. Let's forget my remark ;-) Vladimir -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/