Paris book fair, Russian authors

[Alina Israeli]

> But it is
>interesting to see one traditional French treatment ("-OFF") seemingly being
>anglicized to "-OV."

-OFF was not French but rather a German tradition as in Mayerhoff or Carl
Orff.
-OV is not anglicization either. Mikhail Larionov, for ex. was Michel
Larionov and he lived in France a rather long time ago.

German system made more sense at times. Take Raxmaninov: since there is no
[x] in French, but there is one in German, we could have Rach- like Bach,
and in order not to have a mish-mash, have a German -OFF at the end.

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 Alina Israeli
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