sofza sobetskeeh soshsadestesheckeh recpobdek

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union of socialist soviet republics

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nimbulan (#11504)

12 years ago

The title of this post is the worst transliteration I’ve ever seen.

Alec Dalek (#380)

Reply to nimbulan

12 years ago

Feihje Eirwopdfiu Ghjeiofdo Detrisoisptoidootpiston!

rebelyell2006 (#3264)

Reply to nimbulan

12 years ago

‘sayooza’ (since the emphasis of the word is on the ‘-yoo’, the ‘o’ declines to ‘ah’)
‘savetskikh’ (since the emphasis is on the ‘e’)
‘satsialisticheskikh’ (since the emphasis is on the second ‘i’)
‘respooblik’

You don’t necessarily have to decline the ‘o’, but then it would sound funny if you don’t.
And it is far easier to read the cyrillic word than it is to read a transliterated word as the letters and syllables lose their meaning and pronunciation when the letters are transliterated.

morrighaan (#)

Reply to rebelyell2006

12 years ago

Actually, the word ‘union’ is incorrect. It’s soyuz. Without ‘a’ in the end. Phonetically: so-yu-z.

rebelyell2006 (#3264)

Reply to morrighaan

12 years ago

Spelling error, or did the person mess up the genitive case and who possesses what? It is making my head hurt thinking about it, as it has been a few years since I took Russian.

Flickerdart (#2110)

Reply to morrighaan

12 years ago

Also they have the latin “k” in there, and an old-style 3 instead of a z. Pro tip, whoever made that typeface – Russian lowercase is for the most part just the uppercase but smaller, because Russians were lazy when making their alphabet.