When the music plays, it’s showtime!
I mean look at Yanukovych, Master of International Law.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will definitely remember that. And the dead microphone too.
To accommodate the novelty-seeking behavior, Ukraine's anthem chose to remain silent.
If Ceylon Tea ever needs a maverick image, they know where to look for ideas.
Later, two typos popped up at the Sri Lanka-Ukraine business forum: “Высокоповажність” and “Co-chaird.”
(Not to mention “Yanukovich,” but that's nitpicking.)
Proofreading can be a little too complex to be outsourced to our Presidential Administration.
Sources:
http://censor.net.ua/go/offer/ResourceID/163837.html
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2010/06/30/5186002
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Anthem Plays, Yanukovych Walks (Protocol Disaster)
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Do Ukrainian keyboards even have ы? Apologies for my ignorance, I study Russian at my university (alas, it's the only Slavic language offered) and have an intense interest in Ukrainian language politics.
A few weeks ago representatives from India came to Hungary, but we had no difficulties.
Ryan,
No, it’s from Russian. They have ы and и in Russian, which corresponds to и and і in Ukrainian respectively.
You're welcome to expand into Ukrainian!:) After all, it’s like going from Spanish to Portuguese.
Ropi,
Why don’t you let our man in:)?
Yeah, I was aware of the way the Ukrainian alphabet's set up, just wondering if the keyboards still had ы, perhaps as a relic of Soviet language policy or something.
Perhaps in a few years I'll get into Ukrainian.. I hope to go to grad school somewhere where I have access to it (and any other Slavic languages I might be able to get my hands on).
The keyboards here typically contain Latin and Cyrillic characters, both Ukrainian and Russian (Ukraine being largely Russified).
Good luck with your Ukrainian studies!:)
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