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by pavel_lishin 23 days ago
> What's also fun are alphabet differences.

Yeah. Slavic names are fun here. Polish names are already long due to their di- and tri-graphs, and transliterated Russian and Ukrainian names can easily eat up the "maximum character count" if you have a lot of sibilants in your name. And that's before you meet with someone who has to try and stumble over the various zh, sh and sch sounds.

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That must be why the Czechs leave all their names' vowels at home when they travel abroad :P
"Don't mock the Welsh. You have the privilege of growing up with a language that has vowels."