Cyrillic Teasings
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Cyrillic is the Russian alphabet and I think its quite confusing. Other languages such as Spanish and French use the same alphabet as English as so it is a matter of learning what these new words mean. Chinese and Arabic on the other hand use a completely different alphabet/character system that my brain simply knows it cannot translate.
Cyrillic is another beast. It looks 1/3 funny letters, 2/3 normal letters. However, half of the "normal" looking letters are actually non-funny looking Cyrillic letters. Follow me?
There are a handful of words that we have seen in Cyrillic that are direct (or nearly so) conversions of English words. Here's a mini lesson.
PECTOPAH is Cyrillic and all the letters look normal right? Wrong.
Moscow is spelled MOCKBA - the C is pronounced as an S and O is "ah".
My name, Mark, is MAPK in Cyrillic - P is the Greek letter Rho and hence our R.
So letter replacing some letters:
PECTOPAH
RESTORAH - a la restaurant without the t.
Posted by Mark and Sinziana 8:31 PM
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