Cyrillic and Latin characters
John Schillinger
jschill at AMERICAN.EDU
Mon Aug 29 02:18:35 UTC 2011
For years we've had license plates reading PYC6, BE3Y (our pickup),
and KOPOBKA (my wife's favorite candy).
Every now and then someone will roll down a car window and call out "
А вы откуда"? as they drive alongside.
On Aug 28, 2011, at 10:03 PM, E Wayles Browne wrote:
> Dear Jules,
> This has been done very systematically by some programmers in
> Toronto. Look at
> http://www.chgk.info/~pkrs/123/frames.htm
> and especially at what you get if you choose the option ABTOPACCKA3
> (every time you hit CTAPT, it creates a new story for you).
> They were somewhat more puristic than you, in that they did not use
> b and bI.
> --
> Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
>
> tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
> fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
> e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
>
> ________________________________________
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures
> list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jules Levin [ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET
> ]
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:04 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Cyrillic and Latin characters
>
> ... my
> secret hobby--seeing how many interesting Russian words I can form
> from
> the English keyboard. This turns out to be an excellent way to come
> up
> with passwords that are easy to remember and also highly rated by the
> web sites that actually rate the quality of your proposed password.
> Here are the Cyrillic letters one can find on an English keyboard:
> A B E 3 K M H O P C T Y X bI b Note that this includes a digit and a
> lower-case letter, thus satisfying the web sites that demand numbers
> and
> lower and upper case.
> Here are some words I formed off the top of my head. I am sure one
> can
> come up with many more: BECTb, BOCK, XBOCTb, HOPbI, TPYC, BY3bI,
> KPOBb,
> 3ABTPAKATb
> Let the games begin!
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
>
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John Schillinger
Emeritus Prof. of Russian
American University
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