Re: Vedr. Re: [BPARK] Sovjet successor of the ENIGMA
David Hamer <[email protected]>
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Sydney... The thread grew from a posting by Ragnar Otterstad - 'sovjet' is the Danish [and probably the Norwegian and Swedish] spelling of the word in question... David Hamer At 11:45 7/19/05, Sydney T. Fisher wrote: >I am curious as to where you Bletchley people picked up the spelling Sovjet. I am a plain old Anglo American, but know a few Russian words, and that 'j' in Polish is pronounced like a 'y', which is appropriate. > >The Russian spelling of "Soviet" uses Cyrillic letters that are printable in the Latin alphabet: COBET. The 'C' is our S, the 'O' is the same as ours, but pronounced a bit like the 'o' as in 'pot." Their 'B' is our V, their 'E' is pronounced 'yeh' and their 'T'' is our T. > >Then there was the famous CCCP we used to see on the uniforms of Soviet cosmonauts. Those are the Cyrillic letters that transliterate to the Latin SSSR, for Soyuz Sovietsky Socialistica Respublica, or something like that, where Soyuz means "Union." "Sovietsky Soyuz" means Soviet Union. > >Here endeth my Russian lesson. > >Sydney (2003 visitor to Bletchley Park) > >>At 17:17 7/14/05, Geoff Sullivan wrote: >> >>>In message <5.1.1.6.0.20050714160504.009ee9b0-UThdrVIhI2DH2WqFuJo/[email protected]>, David >>>Hamer <[email protected]> writes >>>>Rag... >>>> >>>>We have the German language manual but are missing Page 4. If you >>>>have that page I would appreciate a good, full size copy. >>>Hi David, >>> >>>That must be the page with the reflector wiring on it ;-) >>> >>>geoff >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>No virus found in this incoming message. >>>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >>>Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.13/47 - Release Date: 7/12/05 >> >>*************************************************** >>David Hamer [email protected] >>*************************************************** >> >> >>-- >>No virus found in this outgoing message. >>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >>Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.1/51 - Release Date: 7/18/05 > > >-- >Correspondents: Please always use sydney.fisher-H+0wwilmMs3uFKmmi/[email protected] My old address [email protected] gets an enormous amount of spam. When I see legitimate messages on [email protected] dwindle to almost nothing, I will warn those senders and then abandon that address. > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.1/51 - Release Date: 7/18/05 *************************************************** David Hamer [email protected] *************************************************** -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.1/51 - Release Date: 7/18/05