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> Cyrillic scripts like Russian and Ukrainian are supported via GNU Unifont, along with Arabic and Hebrew. So much for proper typography... I guess it's still useful for an ocasion…

No, it's not. You're confusing a language (the way people speak) and a literary tradition (the way people write). When ancestors of Russians borrowed Church Slavonic writing, they …

Our Belarusian teacher actually ш/т wrote it like that, I got it from her. It’s not very common in Belarus, either. I think the real strongholds of this style are Serbia and [North…

I like writing in cursive, but I don’t see backtracking as a problem. I backtrack quite a lot in Cyrillic, even in Russian, e.g. I always underline ш and write a line over т (which…

So what? Old French Bretaigne referred both to Britain and Brittany, Old French Russie referred to both Russia (maybe, haven't done research on this) and Ruthenia. But we're not sp…

> But adopting Latin script would help Ukraine "move away" from Russia even more. That might be true, but Latin script is not a neutral option. It has its own problematic history i…

> Ukraine is the Russia (882-1237) Only in the world where Britain is in France. Ukraine traces its lineage to Ruthenia (Русь), not to Russia (Росія). These words are related etymo…

Cyrillic didn't prevent Bulgaria from joining EU, why should it be a problem for Ukraine?

Oh come on, the term itself is political. It has always been political everywhere: same in Russia and Ukraine. You can't "politically charge" a term that has always been political.…

"Native speaker" is not a very useful term: it combines a lot of criteria (first acquired language, language you know best, language you identify with, language of your parents, la…

The problem is, most of these bindings are out-of-date. Delphi from 2012, Basic from 2002, D from 2016. wxRuby is a dead link. wxAda was already dead in 2009, as the discussion I c…

LibreOffice Calc has an option to force English function names regardless of the current localization. I guess Excel should have something similar, too¹. Fun fact: in European and …

It kinda is? Most Classical Chinese and Egyptian words follow the principle "deficient phonetic + semantic part", it's just that Chinese characters are split into neat squares beca…

Rhyme dictionaries describe Middle Chinese, not Old Chinese. Old Chinese involves much more guesswork.

Some modern adaptations of his transcription do, however. E.g. Modern Japanese Grammar: A Practical Guide uses the transcription “sensee” (they consistently don’t use macrons in th…

> Having a one-to-one romanization for each Hiragana phonetic is far more logical for learners It depends on the learner’s (and textbook author’s) goals. Sometimes, having a phonet…

Also, forbid apostrophes, quotation marks and non-cp1252 characters in the message text, like my bank's website does. Apparently to prevent SQL injections.

Russian writer Leonid Kaganov had this idea back in 2021, with an added twist that he also put the printer in his bathroom: https://lleo.me/dnevnik/2021/11/30

But the capitalisation is unexpected. While sometimes people use all-caps for family names (I think it’s French tradition?), I think it looks quite out-of-place and confusing in th…

It treats any of my clicks as an attempt to select text, and draws everything with blue selection overlay (Firefox on Windows). Otherwise, looks cool!

> English regularly violates its own rules That's true for any human language. E.g. in Russian, adjectives use the gender, case and plurality of a noun, until they suddenly don't. …

Iota subscript is a 12-century invention. Rough and smooth breathings (ἁ for ha, ἀ for a) are much older Greek diacritics. For another example of classical diacritics, see apices i…

> to dramatize what would otherwise be a dry spelling shift I don't think that's how it was developed, though. I really doubt there are real-world cases where cwen was scrubbed and…

The page below, in the “Summary” section, has a version in normal font, starting with “Tân niên” (Also, interestingly, there is a version in Chinese characters. Looks like the whol…

I don't know why. It works for me. As an alternative, you can go to Wikipedia and paste File:Đối - Tết 2009.jpg into the search bar.