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Russian characters in latinic

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nenad Frequent Guest Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 26	Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:05 am    Post subject: Russian characters in latinic Just wondering if there is a good website which transliterates from Cyrillic characters to Latinic. Do Russian people understand if you send them latinic transliterations? I actually understand Cyrillic, but it's easier to write in latinic on a computer. Thanks for help
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kenga Frequent Guest Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 26	Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:47 am    Post subject: Re: Russian characters in latinic nenad wrote: Just wondering if there is a good website which transliterates from Cyrillic characters to Latinic. Do Russian people understand if you send them latinic transliterations? I actually understand Cyrillic, but it's easier to write in latinic on a computer. Thanks for help Try www.translit.ru
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vitalsigns Lounge Wizard Joined: 25 Dec 2004 Posts: 2784	Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:57 am    Post subject: http://uucyc.ru/translit.shtml
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Rick Moderator Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 854 Location: Касабланка	Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:12 am    Post subject: My (future) brother-in-law had an issue with some Russian guys on his internet forum. I helped him put some text together. I gave him a cyrillic text though and he preferred a latin. Later on though he did the transliteration by himself, using Wikipedia. There are actually a few systems for transliteration. The English one is most common, though often transliteration is done in a terribly sloppy way Any Russian will understand it, even if you make some mistakes.
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nenad Frequent Guest Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 26	Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:11 am    Post subject: Thanks, that reads so much easier. I forgot Cyrillic letters from school days. I always thought that Serbia should abandon the Cyrillic alphabet, and they've done some progress on that, but now it's back to national pride and such things. I read that Russia was also thinking of abandoing the cyrillic at one point, but was too difficult. The similar transliteration exists in Serbian/Croatian where letter ш could be 'sh' or 's' and it's understood from context though sometimes inadvertidly you write different word.
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Rick Moderator Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 854 Location: Касабланка	Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:07 pm    Post subject: Cyrillic seems quite tailor-made to the Russian language. Once you can read it, it makes much more sense than latin transliterations, esp. because the spelling is usually quite phonetic.
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