Re: Really OT: insertion of extra letters in Russian phrases

Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
"Peter Moylan" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:441aa00e$0$20112$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Alexei A. Frounze wrote:

Он пришел к брату. He came to the/his brother. Он пришел к*о*
мне. He came to me.
That's an interesting pair. I believe that most English speakers
would find "kbr" just as difficult, or even more difficult, to
pronounce than the triple "kmv".

kmv? Did you mean kmn?

Sorry, that's my mistake - or perhaps I should say that it's the fault
of the Cyrillic font that my newsreader is reading. Even when I make
the font larger, the letters н and в look almost identical on my screen.
What I need is the equivalent of a "sans serif" font. (Does that
concept exist in Russian writing?)

Of course, what I really need is to remember the lessons of 35 years ago
that would have told me that мне is a word that I have seen before. I
took a course of "Scientific Russian" for (if I remember correctly) one
hour a week for one semester, whose basic purpose was to allow us to
translate a scientific paper by knowing how to look up a dictionary.
That is the sort of course that gives you almost zero knowledge of a
language. (OK, I know the alphabet, but that's no big deal. I learnt
the Greek alphabet without ever taking a course.) It is possible that I
could still read a Russian mathematical paper, but that's mostly because
mathematical papers usually have more equations than text. I never
learnt enough about the language to have things stick in my mind.

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