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==Re: Russian cursive==

Or perhaps get someone to make a better version, if they feel it's as bad as you do? I don't know a thing about it, either, and only found that version accidentally a few weeks back, but even if it's not perfect, I'm working on the basis of 'something's better than nothing'. If nothing else, it'll give a vague idea. And besides, everyone writes differently, so who knows, maybe it's close enough for some variation, if not a textbook-perfect learn-to-write-2007 version. Heck, even English cursive's changed several times over since I learned it... and that wasn't all that long ago. So while how I'd write the alphabet would no longer match books, I doubt anyone would tell me it's wrong. I can't imagine it's all that different for Russian. -[[User:Bbik|Bbik]] 06:16, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

:Wait, there're things for teaching yourself languages over there, even if not entirely accurate? Cool! That just made my day.

:And, comments like that point out that there's a mistake, not that it's unfixable. Admittedly, it wouldn't be saying the wrong thing if it weren't there at all, but hey, it was, and it was noticed, and fixed, and now it's that much more useful. If there's nothing there in the first place, it's less likely that it'll be noticed at all -- either no one will think to add it, or there's that much less to help someone. Mispronounce/spell a word, and sure, they'll know you're not native, but at least you're trying, and that counts for something.

:As far as what the comments actually say, aside from 3, the rest sound to me like, well, comments. Simple suggestions for improvement, nothing derogatory or anything. I wouldn't worry about it so much. As far as I can tell, that's the point of Wiki in general, that it's a group effort, a work in progress, and as such, it's bound to have mistakes, from everyone. But it's also bound to have others come fix those mistakes (after they're done making their own! :-p).

:Just don't go sticking the Greek alphabet in place of the Cyrillic (however off it may be), and I really can't see how it'd be that big of a problem. Unless someone has a major case of overreacting, and there's not much to do about that, unfortunately. Even if you avoid one situation, another will take its place, for something like that. So just don't look at that part of it, and deal with it when ('''IF''') it comes. -[[User:Bbik|Bbik]] 08:27, 14 May 2007 (UTC)