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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5404 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes  Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 1 of 17 17 February 2010 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was wondering, how many people in Russia or better yet what groups or institutions today in Russia and in the diaspora still actively use the pre-revolutionary (pre-1918) orthography?
I ask because I simply don't like the modern orthography, for aesthetic reasons, though if I never saw the old orthography I might have been happy with this one. Frankly, I don't like any modern Cyrillic orthographies, only Church Slavonic one still used in church looks appealing to me. Though I pretty much abandoned any interest in Old Church Slavonic (I even have a website I spent months in the making, even though it is far from complete: http://sites.google.com/site/oldchurchslavonic/), the time I have spent researching it and the great amount of literature I read about the origin of Glagolitic and Cyrillic left a mark on me, and now any Cyrillic script seams inferior compared to the Old Slavonic one (whether OCS or CS) in its beauty and style. Since I plan to improve my Russian (I in fact took Russian as a major but left college before the end of the first semester) and I was wondering whether there are people which prefer the old orthography like I do. I am being ripped apart here since I on one hand would like to communicate with as many Russians as possible, but on the other hand I don't like the modern Russian orthography which is I presume not used only by a small minority of conservatives. It is a bit weird, but I am not a religious person and I could say a lot of negative stuff about Orthodox Christianity, and I am also very anti-nationalistic and could say even more about Russian nationalism or Pan-Slavisitic ideas. Yet, I like the old orthography. Edited by Delodephius on 17 February 2010 at 11:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5465 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 2 of 17 18 February 2010 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
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All those unnecessary hard signs... What's to like?
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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5404 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 3 of 17 18 February 2010 at 8:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Especially the hard signs! A word ending without a hard sign after a consonant looks dreadful!
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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5404 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 4 of 17 06 March 2010 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Guess no one is interested.
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| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6331 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 5 of 17 06 March 2010 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I never saw the old orthography used in real life Russia, except in advertising.
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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5404 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 6 of 17 06 March 2010 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've read couple of books, recently published not just the old ones. I think one was about the Pan-Slavic movement, one was a novel, and one about the orthography itself. Edited by Delodephius on 06 March 2010 at 8:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6387 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin* | Message 7 of 17 07 March 2010 at 4:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Enjoy:
http://arhivarij.narod.ru/do_revoliucii.html 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5839 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 8 of 17 08 March 2010 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
I'd recommend that you ask about this in a forum with more Russian users. There are hardly any Russians who visit here.. and some people seem to actively be trying to scare them away. Anyway there are several such forums -- seek and ye' shall find.. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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