Why no Cyrillic?

[George Kalbouss]

Apropos not using Cyrillic when one can.

	I remember as a graduate student in the 60's that most graduate  
courses in Russian
literature, linguistics were taught in English, even when the  
professor's native language
was Russian and he spoke with a visible accent  (the exception was  
NYU).  Everyone in
the class was a grad student pursing an advanced degree in Russian  
literature of
linguistics, and I could never figure this out.  This certainly wasn't
the case in French, Spanish and German.  Perhaps some of our younger  
colleagues
can answer this:  is this still the case, and if so, why?


George Kalbouss

On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Chew G wrote:

> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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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