There is a reason that phones have keypads... lol, ok I guess it might be helpful to know the alphabet
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There is a reason that phones have keypads... lol, ok I guess it might be helpful to know the alphabet
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What a load of gibberish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anne
Anyway the name of Russian У isn't the same as English U, because in English U is jotated for some reason e.g. it's "Ю" not "У".
ОК, maybe some native speaker can translate for me what I want to shout out here, "What is the big deal?"
Of course you should know the alphabet, just as you should be able to count to ten to give somebody your phone number. That is a given. If you don't know what the letters are called, you just won't do. How many times in English do you have to spell out things, as in a conversation I recently had:
-OK, now type in your login name. That is E D z 7 8 5.
- E T z 7 8 5.
- No not E T, but E D, as in Evangelical Diaspora!
- OK, E D small c 7 8 5. OK, so now what's the password?
As the guy earlier on in the thread showed, many Russians don't know the "official" letters anyway(эс instead of сэ, etc.). I take it that if he could get this far without knowing the official names then it suffices to be able to make clear what letter you're referring to.
So when your referring to the names of the letters you are talking about: Ah, Be, Ve, Ge, De, Yea, Yor, Zshre, Zye and so on? OH, silly me! I thought you were referring maybe to somthing else that I just wan't aware of. So yes, then it does make since to know the names of the letters.
Sometimes when I talk over the telephone and the line is bad then in chaika's case I say:
Петя, Данила, Вова, Маша, Яша, Юля, Наташа итд