https://xkcd.com/2071/

I googled the guy and this was the first image of him:

I guess he really is an expert on this topic :D

These unguillotined millionaires sure do like their manipulative language.

based on the classic

2026 Lemmy edition:

He seems mentally perfectly healthy. Weird is not unhealthy!

I think they are the ones who pump batmobile’s tires.

Hello, just passing by to shamelessly promote !homm@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Also, yeah, usual business when it comes to Ubisoft. Fun story: their first HoMM game, H5 from 2006, had its release date postponed because the fans protested and begged to have it released later. It was horribly buggy, according to the beta players, and the fans wanted the studio to have enough time to fix it.

So yeah, you haven’t really responded to the statement that your position is elitist, or at least smartassery that no linguist actually supports.

maybe it was proposed because ‘ё’ denotes a very particular sound?

Indeed. And then it wasn’t made generally mandatory, and then the Russian language continued to work fine.

Which, notably, Western languages can never quite approximate

Why would that be remotely notable here? We’re talking about Russian spelling of Russian language.

perhaps because the letters are in a different position?

And what is that position that makes the difference?

Same city, Lvov is the Russian and Lviv is the Ukrainian name. Ukrainian has historically shifted many 'o’s to ‘i’.

In no way am I elitist about it

I think that equating respect for language with usage of the letter and vague guilt-tripping of people who don’t use it is elitist.

the replacement of ‘ё’ with ‘е’

It’s the other way around, actually, ‘e’ is the original letter and sound, the sound changed by the 18th century or so (as far as I’m aware) and then the modified letter was proposed but never made generally mandatory. People aren’t replacing anything, they’re writing same as always.

‘его’ is at least a typical consistent rule, mapping to the pronunciation ‘ево’ in the same places in various words

The name Егор doesn’t follow it, but моего and сегодня do. Why? You have to explain the etymology of сегодня at the very least to make sense of it, undermining the consistency.

If you had read books in Russian, you’d notice that basically no Russian writer after Karamzin (who IIRC proposed the ë letter himself) “respected” the Russian language enough to use the letter. It’s legitimate for you to use it (all the better for me as a foreign speaker), but it’s not something to act elitist about.

Whether Russian will go in the direction of English depends on how its pronunciation develops, for now it’s still pretty close to the spelling, although there are words and forms such as “моего, сегодня” that are pronounced as “моево, севодня”. I wonder how many people would support changing this spelling.

Cartoon villains envy their creativity.

Elon Musk’s AI-generated alternative to Wikipedia, lol

When was the last time you read a book which used ë regularly (as in, not just in cases as distinguishing все-всё)?

Eh, both are proper spelling, I don’t think any Russian manual said it’s mandatory. The ë is used mainly in dictionaries, Russian schoolbooks, etc. where ambiguity should be minimal.

It’s probably google translated to Russian, since it’s just two nouns slapped together.

Thanks. I can’t help but conclude that the public outcry is exaggerated – the books being bought are evidently selected at random. The chances of the companies buying some particularly rare (and more expensive) book this way seem slim, since they probably don’t want to waste too much money.

Perhaps.

What I actually want to know is the rarity of the books in question.

So, what is the book that they tracked? What other books were in the order alongside it?