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Steeven
Posted Feb 27, 2009 5:44 PM
Zbigniew
You wrote:
"The "x" convention is totally unnatural in all Slav languages uzing Latin alphabet, and In Cyrylica, the Russian one, it has value of letteh "h", if I don't err? Although, in Latin script version of any Slavic language it just hurts to see it everuy so often. It just sticks out like a sower tooth"
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"x" has been a challenge for most Slavic speakers.
When I first found SLOVIO my immediate reaction was to change the "x" to the Polish "z" - except that did not work when added to the letter "z" = "zz". So then what? Some have chosen to use the combination "zs" just for "z" and keep "cz" and "sz".
So, we then have some people writing with cz, sx and zs, some writing with zz, some with just single letter, others writing with diacritics that cannot print in most forums without changing to Unicode-8 or Central European Encoding itd.
Finally, this is just one set of variables. Add to them the other spelling variables and it becomes a mess for computer programs.
In other thread - SLOVIANSKI - Spelling Rules, Slavenica - who offers an online transliteration program at http://slavenica.com posted his concern about all these "too many variants," writing:
"Please make up your mind to some standard, then it can be supported. Right now you have 6 variants, that is simply too many."
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So, I just "close my eyes" and write with "x" - BECAUSE everyone can immediately understand what sound is displayed in Latin bukvi.
The other variants of sound - the palatizations of letters - I simply omit. So I do NOT write vidit' or med' versus med. But then I am writing in SLOVIO/SLOVIOSKI style and not SLOVIANSKI. If the medium allows for it, I will use diacritics, because almost everyone (Slavic-Speakers) prefers diacritical bukvi over "zx" or "zs" or "zz" itd.
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Moraczewski
Sorry - this is OFFTOPIC.
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