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[1margaret7.livejournal.com]

how do you make the letters in the russian language?
they seem all wierd to me..

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[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

I definately agree. I've only been reading Cyrillic for like 6 months, and I have thought it was beautiful in a way for a while now. The same with Arabic script or Japanese script. Can't read it, but I think its pretty, not "weird". Weird is a word too parochial for me to use often.

[hockeyophile.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you get used to reading a new alphabet after a while. And I can't begin to tell you how awful I think Russian looks when it's written in the Roman alphabet (although I currently have to do that because my computer fonts are messed up...it drives me nuts though!). I've just gotten so used to seeing it in Cyrillic that you can't imagine it in any other alphabet except the one it was meant to be written in. In fact, I know some Czech as well, and when I see cognate words between Czech and Russian, the Czech word looks more strange to me because it's simply the Russian word written in the Roman alphabet (since the languages are related). I guess it's because Russian was the first Slavic language I learned and so it's more natural for me to associate all Slavic languages with the Cyrillic alphabet, even though that's totally not the case. :)

Wow, I just went off on a major tangent there.

Oh, and the Cyrillic alphabet has become so ingrained in my mind that sometimes I'll even read English words with the Russian sounds for letters that exist in both languages but are used to represent different sounds. For example, I'll look at the English word "bend" and read it like "vend," etc. :)

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

haha that has happened to me as well, and the other way too! I sometimes pronounce a word written in russian perfectly... except I say "p" instead of the "r" sound its supposed to make.

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

I totally do that with both Greek and Hebrew. Let me tell you, the Hebrew alphabet was a pain to learn but it's beautiful now. I can't stand transliteration anymore. I totally have to make myself pronounce p's as p's and not r's and a few other little things.

[pallasathene82.livejournal.com]

The same thing happened to me. I'd especially write in Russian when I meant to write in English, like confusing the "D's" especially. Thus why I only write in cursive for Russian and not in English.
Plus I just like hearing people speak Russian...after so many years of being around it it's familiar and soothing.
I wish AIM allowed for cyrillic characters. :p

[1margaret7.livejournal.com]

i didnt mean WEIRED as in BAD.
i just meant that the way the letters LOOK. seem DIFFERENT to me... seeming as how i dont speak the language...