Shame to Cyril & Methodius

[vitus_wagner]

Today Russian orthodoxs celebrate memory of the saints Cyril and Methodius, who create shameful cyrillic alphabet which separated Russian culture from the rest of Europe for nearly thousand of years.

Only after Peter The Great reign, when it became a custom for educated classes to learn at least one of European languages, Russia became major player in the European politics again.

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[anatoly borodin (from livejournal.com)]

Есть русский, украинский и сербский алфавиты. Есть английский, французский и немецкий.

А некоторые английские (не только) буквы появились в латинском алфавите только в средние века:

It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter ‹W› (originally a ligature of two ‹V›s) was added to the Latin alphabet, to represent sounds from the Germanic languages which did not exist in medieval Latin, and only after the Renaissance did the convention of treating ‹I› and ‹U› as vowels, and ‹J› and ‹V› as consonants, become established. Prior to that, the former had been merely allographs of the latter.