Why no Cyrillic?

[Susan Bauckus]

just to clarify, I did not say what Prof. Belyanin quoted below; those are
his words. At any rate, I think we're now confusing the need to know and be
able to type in a language's alphabet with the place of transliteration in
Slavic. 

I have also worked w/ actors and singers who don't know Cyrillic and it is
a strange, and interesting, experience. But these people are used to using
various languages that they don't know well, and I admire their willingness
to use them, even if in a small way. I can't blame them for an
unwillingness to learn another alphabet and, let's remember, the rules of
vowel reduction, regressive assimilation, the peculiarities of spelling,
etc. 
This discussion makes me wonder: 
1) would someone learning a Polish song, who did not know Polish, also need
the lyrics represented in some kind of transliteration?
2) Doesn't it seem likely or at least possible that many heritage speakers
who did not know Cyrillic would learn script or a song better than some
classroom-based learners who know Cyrillic but have pronunciation
problems?. 

sb

> [Original Message]
> From: Valery Belyanin <vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> Date: 2/5/2009 12:45:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Why no Cyrillic?
>
> >
> > Susan Bauckus wrote:
> >  I would rather spend 1 week learning the Cyrillic alphabet in order to
> > read my source material in the most precise representation than read a
> > transliterated version.
>
>
> A couple of years ago an American actress who live in totonto called me.
She
> wanted to lean her words in a small role which she was supposed to play
in a
> Russian movie. When I came to her she showed me her part in
transliterarion,
> saying that her American  teacher of Russian taught her like this for one
> month. All she wanted from me was to have new phrases (that were changed
in
> her part) to write in transliteration. We had only two hours.... That were
> the hardest dollars I ever earned...
> Valery Belyanin
>
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