Nitpick: "Rorschach", not "Rorshak". HTH!

Post #29,718 by CRConrad 2/26/02 3:06:51 AM Reply	Nitpick: "Rorschach", not "Rorshak". HTH!
Post #29,721 by Ashton 2/26/02 4:21:51 AM Reply	Yeah.. it does have a certain symmetry Succumbing to the non-spelling generation, I guess. Well, long as I can get Djugashvili right, can Brzezinski be far behind? A.
Post #29,725 by CRConrad 2/26/02 5:12:59 AM Reply	But we spell ol' Josip as ~ 'Dzjugaszvilij' here! Or something like that; I honestly can't quite remember for sure... And his patronymic is Vissarionovitj these days, where it used to be Vissarionovich. In German, I guess, it must be Vissarionowitsch -- and I won't even try to render his original last name into (ironically) my native tongue! Never mind, though -- there is no global standard for kyrillic-latin (and latin-kyrillic?) transcription, AFAIK. It changes over time, too -- the Romanovs used to be the Romanoffs in Western languages; and the copy of Verne's _Courier of the Tsar_ [my translation of the title] I read as a kid was full of Baron Ignatieff and Gregor Michailovitsj [made-up examples], who'd doubtless be Baron Ignatjov and Grigorij Mikhailovitj now. (In Swedish -- in English, they'd be, les'see... Baron Ignachev and Grigory Mikhailovich?) But what's (X-NSAdv.) Zbigniew gotta do with anything -- are you saying he's Kissinger's and Stalin's secret love-child?!? Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #29,916 by Ashton 2/26/02 8:22:51 PM Reply	ie Absolute proof that, there is no such thing as absolute proof (or exact spelling, pronunciation). Damn.. looks like there's another One addicted to memorizing any bizarre names as surface. Zbigniew has to be right up there with (variously) Iosip, Josif - Uncle Joe. It's gotta be a shared glitch in the DNA. Fortunately no tj's here that I've ever seen, so guess it's a -hoovian aberration. I imagine though that Czech would do us both in. An ~ earliest recollection (re words) was seeing a box in my aunt's garage, maybe sometime ~ 4 yrs. old. And I proudly 'read' the label (actually place of origin) to her as, "Chick-ago ill". And natch I thought she was putting me on when she pronounced 'Chicago' (and maybe mentiond the idea of abbreviation re the "Ill"). Found it odd later - to recall my exact pronunciation - now, obviously permanently. Imagine if we'd been exposed to actually Interesting stuff at that time, when the brain was picking up everything, like a sponge.. Shit, we coulda been Smart instead of - Cheers, A. PS heard one about the San Francisco transit company (called MUNI for municipal rwy. of course). Guy's friend Gloria was complaining about the service during a troubled time; wag replied - Sick transit, Gloria - MUNI..

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