Why no Cyrillic?

[Susan Bauckus]

no one here is likely to have problems w/ cyrillic. it's our computers that have problems. 
thanks for the info. on singers and phonetics. 
sb

-----Original Message-----
>From: Chew G <G.Chew at RHUL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Feb 5, 2009 2:35 PM
>To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Why no Cyrillic?
>
>In my experience as a musician, singers learning songs in ANY foreign language (even French or German) often like to put their version of a phonetic equivalent under the notes. But now we are verging on the terrain of jokes about the brainlessness of singers...
> 
>On the main point though, even as a non-Russianist I have no problem with the Cyrillic alphabet and am surprised that anyone else on this list might.
> 
>Geoff
> 
> Geoffrey Chew
> g.chew at rhul.ac.uk
>
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>From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Susan Bauckus
>
>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?
>
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Susan Bauckus
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