Russian keyboards

[Martin Votruba]

> typing Russian in Latin characters has something to do with
> a sort of "colonial" approach

Not always.  For instance, not all the recipients of the seelangs messages
have mailers set up to read other than Latin letters.


> Tending to reduce the problem to what one si familiar

What you point to, Philippe, is one of the fairly pervasive differences
between the Anglo-Saxon and Continental-European approaches to learning in
general, one unlikely to change -- it comes from many educators.

In the "Anglo" world, there's AATSEEL and a number of academics recommending
the use of "Anglo-like" keyboards for Russian, while for the academics and
students of foreign languages in Russia (and other countries with non-Latin
scripts) it goes without saying that everyone learning a foreign language
learns to type it on its native keyboard, although it surely is no easier
for a Russian to learn to use a Latin-based keyboard efficiently than the
other way round.


Martin

votruba "at" pitt "dot" edu
 

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