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  • Zelenskiy Releases Personal Income in Transparency Push

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  • My source of credibility is that I've studied linguistics and translation/interpreting and got a BA on the matter, so I'm not talking out of my ass entirely.

    Get ready for some dorky read.

    Artyom is pretty much the expected translation, regardless of the original spelling: like with Sapkowski becoming Сапковский in Russian, which may not be what the original pronunciation or spelling intended, but that's fine, because it's intended to be used in a different language.

    If you want to follow the spelling example, then every language is fucked because King George is very far from the Russian equivalent of Король Георг, let alone the fact that individual vowels and consonants and then their combinations are all, in fact, different sounds between languages. None of it means a translation isn't accurate or right - it's about ideas and legibility, comprehension achieved with the means of a target language first and foremost, no matter the limitations or differences of the source language.

    Back to Artyom, regardless of the spelling I Russian, either Артём or Артем, you pronounce it the same, so it makes most sense to spell it as Artyom in English.

    @x4740N@lemmy.world said languages should translate words phonetically, but that's far from practical or comprehensive in general - but it has applications in proper names, and even then there are exceptions to handle stylistic or purely linguistic aspects.

    And none of that is strictly a solely Slavic problem. It's not even a problem, actually.

  • Zelenskiy Releases Personal Income in Transparency Push

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  • Very much this.

    The suffix at the end of that last name is also causing some trouble:

    • In Ukrainian, it's Зеленський (note the "ь", a silent letter supposed to soften the consonant before itself)
    • In Russian, it's Зеленский (no "ь", the "н" is not soft)
    • In Polish, it's Zełenski (no "й" or anything similar, resulting in a different pronunciation again)

    Now compare it to the last name of a Polish author: Сапковський (Ukrainian), Сапковский (Russian), Sapkowski (Polish).

    Ukrainians, Russians, and Poles all have examples of last names like these, but the rules of our languages dictate that we handle them differently, even in terms of spelling and pronunciation; for people not speaking a Slavic language naturally, it understandably is a nightmare, as neither spelling is objectively the right one in terms of linguistics.

    For now, it's probably best to either go with one of the following:

    • Zelensky or Zelenski, akin to Polish equivalent spelling of similar last names
    • Zelenskyy, as seems to be the more or less official or judicial spelling of this Ukrainian last name

    As messy as it seems, I believe it's going to stay the same. Romanization of the Russian language is already an equally messy phenomenon despite multiple efforts to standardize the process, yet it only resulted in several ways of tackling the difficult cases, which is of very little help; Ukrainian seems to be an even more complicated case for romanization as it has some features that would either require intricate rules to create accurate spellings, or make greater use of diacritics.

  • Programming: The Horror Game

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  • I had a friend doing mobile gamedev, making near unheard-of money for their then city of residence, had everything going well for them... except the job was soul-crushing and draining, eventually giving them severe depression.

    When I was getting my first dev job, they said I'd be really sorry about doing outsource, and I just thought that out of us two, I'd be the really happy one, even making much less than them.

  • Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

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  • Might be a Linux thing, though.

  • Zelensky calls for seized Russian billions to rebuild Ukraine

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  • Doesn't change that much, really.

    Russia, as a country, does not trust many foreign institutions already - at least the western ones. They're considered unfriendly, undesirable, and dangerous.

    At the same time, Russia, as a country, is comprised of many people, including the ones that either directly represent its government in the form of deputies, ministers, and many other official figures, or use the wealth they've built in Russia through schemes and theft and murder and other crimes to build their stashes in democratic countries that have strong institutions and slow bureaucracies to protect their assets.

    Most of these people have mastered doublethink, being able to switch their work and private personalities with ease: Get to the government office and pretend you absolutely hate everything to the west of Russia's borders (except Belarus, maybe), including their values, happily vote for laws opposing or hurting them (mostly because you were told to "from above"), make anti-western speeches and so on and so forth - but once you clock out, you check on your kids in London, check on your French business, check on your real estate in Spain.

    They live very double-agent type of lives, and will keep living them that way. None of the people in power have any incentive to make Russia a self-sufficient country in any metric, because that's not what they wanted to be in power for, not even close - so Russia will always be interested in foreign institutions and markets and investment, because isolation is definitely not in its interest, nor is it appealing to anyone in power.

  • Zelensky calls for seized Russian billions to rebuild Ukraine

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  • As seemingly morally correct as it is, you're just talking about way too powerful markets here to dismiss that way. Maybe we, the Lemmy/fediverse crowd, may want and welcome it, but neither the governments nor a large enough portion of their electorates would sacrifice even relative economic comfort and their standard of living for that.

    Not to mention that uncovering who's done what atrocities is a very big Pandora's box, opening which either blocks everyone from trading with each other, or leads to heavily-manipulated decisions and results as to whose atrocities justify embargoes and whose don't.

    This whole things is neck-deep pile of shit to say the least.

  • Zelensky calls for seized Russian billions to rebuild Ukraine

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  • I don't know shit about finances or economics or markets, but this seems to make sense. That's probably why it makes sense to me in the first place.

    It seems similar to mutually assured destruction, like the one that a nuclear arsenal poses, acting as a deterrent to all the parties involved. If you harm their market, they harm yours, and in this day and age, it's more disastrous than ever, perhaps.

    The bigger problem is likely spread out across smaller markets, which, combined, net you a solid benefit and profit, but if some of they start using such precedents as an excuse to seize your assets for only their benefit and profit, they might lose less than you do, ultimately proving the concern in @AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social's comment above.

    We might as well be discussing it in way more detail than the decision-makers here, as yeah, setting precedents that could (or could not) potentially harm their profits and leviathan wealth is a no-go for them.

  • Sauna dress-code across Europe

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  • Fair enough. I live here and always surprised my family whenever I refuse dried fish with beer - I'm more of a smoked cheese braid or chips kinda person.

  • Sauna dress-code across Europe

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  • Not fish necessarily, but any beer snack, yeah.

  • Europe has been named as the best continent for digital nomads

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  • I once worked with someone from France, while working in a German branch for a company, and they lived in Switzerland at that time, saying they just pay less taxes that way and take home more money.

    Your post makes me think it wasn't just taxes.

  • Uhhh oh

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  • She's also definitely Russian, and we, Russians, believe that it's a guy.

    There's no women on the Internet.

  • Russian Duma takes first step to revoke ratification of nuclear test ban treaty

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  • You shouldn't really assume that the Russian government is up to anything aside from imitating some activity to present the their superiors, which is all a long chain going from the very down to the very top.

    It's a corrupt government that consists of people only aiming at filling their pockets with as much money as possible, for as long as possible. Sometimes they need to play along and make people (mostly their gone-mad old-aged marasmatic superiors) believe they're loyal, should be allowed to keep their money and pay, and are super busy.

    There is no ideology. There is no long-term goal. There isn't even an evil goal. There's only greed and some things that they think they must do to keep their pockets growing.

  • oof

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  • 1999 piracy mostly consisted of paying for a pirated copy that someone decided to make profit off; most likely, they weren't the person to make the (first!) copy, and they're not even sure what's on the thing they were selling you. It was mostly bootlegging.

  • What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?

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  • Never swam in an ocean, could you elaborate?

  • Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left

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  • There's a book about why power seems to attract this sort of people - can't remember the name right now, might update later.

    In short, it's not power on its own, but rather the systems we built around and for power, making it unattractive for people we want to end up in power, while the people who we don't want to end up in power pursue it regardless because they want power for the sake of it.

    What I'm trying to say is, this is another issue that we can actually tackle and solve to a large degree. There's hope!