www.byzcath.org Forums General Discussions Town Hall Profoundly silly question about "faux Cyrllic"

Hello!

I saw an ad the other day for a movie taking place in Slavic lands, and it used the classic "faux Cyrillic" alphabet.

To make up my own really quick example ... "Fяoм Яussїa Шitи Lovэ."

I'm sure we've all seen this.

Here's my question ... when they release movies in countries that use Cyrillic, but are about stories in classically American environments, do they use this technique in reverse with the Latin alphabet?

A bad example, using Google translate ... perhaps a movie in Ukrainian about the American Wild West ... дикий Захід ... but spelled maybe "Aнкнй Захід?"

Anyone run into that?

The answer from my daughter (who has spent an inordinate amount of time in Russia and is going back for another summer there), the answer is "no". She says (a) that Roman letters are not that exotic to them, since they see them all the time; and (b) Roman letters do not normally suggest "America" to them in the way that Cyrillic suggests Russian to us (because all of Western Europe and even parts of Eastern Europe use them); and (c) a large proportion of Russians speak at least some English.

That is hilarious, thank you.