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| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5522 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes  Speaks: Swedish* | Message 17 of 17 30 October 2010 at 4:52pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I don't like the reformed script either, but then again I am a nationalist, pan-slavist and Orthodox. I've heard that some groups of Old Believers still use the old script, but if you just want to get books it is not terribly uncommon to find academic editions of pre-revolotionary writers set in the original script. You will also find certain church publications, even some that are not reprints, that use the old letters. For me though, the biggest loss was when they gave up the yus'es, which happened quite a bit earlier... Also, saying that word final hard signs are unnecessary is like saying that final e in French or English is pointless. Pronunciation changes, it's not such a terrible thing to keep spelling constant. My guess is that it's only because Russian orthography is unually regular in other respects that people gripe about the old hard signs. Even pre-revolutionary spelling is much more faithful to pronunciation than most other European orthographies. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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