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qwert wrote:Andrew its a mix of names and every names is good translation. No mistake.
Russian - National Language
Transliteration Transliteration
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Kiev - Kyiv
Odessa - Odesa
Lvov - Lviv
Ternopol - Ternopil
Polotsk - Polatsk
Cherkassy - Cherkasy
Dnepropetrovsk - Dnipropetrovsk
AndrewB wrote:
I suggest you to pick Russian transliteration, because in USSR Russian was a state language.
Ruben Cassar wrote:AndrewB wrote:
I suggest you to pick Russian transliteration, because in USSR Russian was a state language.
I agree with him on this one.
qwert wrote:Ok, we can solve these problem, you can find all russian names in these map translated in english
sam_levi_11 wrote:i like the names as they are
hulmey wrote:This site is a english language speaking site....
And everything should be in english, i dont its really open up for discussion...
For example as a english speaker KIEv is the proper transaltion.
SO LETS GET ON WITH IT PLS
hulmey wrote:so what if its historically incorrect!!!!
I understand what your saying.....Why should qwert just use the Russian language??
He should use the language translation of that particular city or country....Russia might have conquered the country but i bet these conquered people still spoke their dialect and not RUSSIAN!!!
Ruben Cassar wrote:qwert wrote:well if i can find site for citi names of USSr from 1941 then i will know what to do.
Here you go:
http://www.us.oup.com/us/brochure/0195182200/maps/019530764Xbarbarossa.jpg
Note Kiev and Odessa.
Ruben Cassar wrote:Why all this bickering about the names again? Let it be Andrew. If someone cares I posted a WWII map with the proper English names that should be used some pages back. I know Qwert looked at it and confirmed that he would be using those.
So the argument is over I guess. Leave the names as they are and focus on other aspects of the map.
And btw Ukraine is a divided country to this day. The people in Donetsk (East Ukraine) speak Russian not Ukrainian. The people in Lviv (West Ukraine) use Ukrainian and are fanatical about the use of Ukrainian. They have even tried to ban music in Russian from being played in public places. If it continues like this Ukraine will be split in half. And to add insult to injury these people are ethnically the same...
But that does not even matter for the purposes of this map as it's based in WWII and things were different back then.
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