Newsgroup: it.sport.ciclismo
Titolo: Stahurskaia or Stahurskaya?

Sergio thinks it's Stahurskaya, but if you google, there are about a billion
listings for both Stahurskaia or Stahurskaya, CN and countless other sites
have equally used both Stahurskaia or Stahurskaya.
So, does anyone know definately?
It is Stahurskaia or Stahurskaya?
Only Zina knows for sure! :-)
thanks,
B-

 listings for both Stahurskaia or Stahurskaya, C
However, I also said that it is often quite undecidable when, as in
this case, the word is transliterated from cyrillic characters.
Sergio
Pisa

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Yes, interestingly enough, but I was just trying to find out what the
majority of sites or listings are going with. I would think they would go
with which Zina uses or likes. It's very odd to me the huge split in the
America usuage. I have never seen such a huge divide in usage with a last
name in the English version.
I could say it doesn't matter, but I suppose it does.
Perhaps Stahurskaya is the better usage. Earliest usage might be
Stahurskaya. It just came to my attention recently about the double usuage
on a grand scale. Maybe both are right, depending as you say.
B-

Italians are terrible in translations and translitterations.
Actor Burt Lancaster for example. Burt in English is said "Bart" but here in 
Italy Burt.
If a had a daughter or a sister her Last name for Greek people would be 
Antoniadi o r Antoniadu but in Italian Antoniadis giving so a masculine name 
to here.
Italians have a bad approach with English, immagine with other languages.
Many friends telephone to me because their antivirus asks "Do you want to 
updare your antivirus definitions?" and they don't know how to translate and 
the friends are persons with univercity degrees and specializations.
But Italians are the best customers for restaurants. All the other ( Greek 
German etc) eat sald and meat with potatos OR Spaghetti.
If comes an Italian customer the waiter says :
For antipasto we have.....
For First plate we have.....
For second Plate we have....
For desert we have.........
4 Pates instead of 2!!
After they do sport because they eat so much.....
But anyway good guys and excellent customers!!
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GoneBeforeMyTime wrote:
  . Maybe both are right, depending as you say.
I am afraid it is quite uncertain to decide which is right and which is
wrong.
Try to see how Gorbaciov has been spelled around the World, just to
givre you an easy example.
To each his own.
Sergio
Pisa

 But anyway good guys and excellent customers!!
English is said to be better taught in the old days because they made you
sound out your words and more time spent on phonics and basic English. They
say today, kids learn words by recognition or memorization, instead of
rational approach of well taught ingrained English, which they would have
the skills to not only sound out words, but to write them correctly as well.
They say the same thing with math, that instead of using the skills to solve
equations from scratch, kids use the calculators. I suppose this is true to
a point, as public schools are worse then ever, but rich parents can still
send their kids to excellent schools here in the states. I am afraid a
public education is not what it used to be, but for instance, as one of the
students from the old schools, I know that Burt is Burr..t, like (burr cold)
and Bart would sound literally of course, Barr..t like (pub or bar, drinking
place) For instance to me, when I went to explain once the great rider Edita
Pucinskaite, I see it as either Pushing Sky ah, or Puchin scotty, or maybe
even something else, when I hear commentators, often they get it wrong as
well, so it's hard to know what is the right usage!
B-

 this case, the word is transliterated from cyrillic characters.
Well, it's a *transcription*, not a "translitteration" ;-)
Anyway that's right. Depending on method used to transcript chars,
result can change.
After URSS debracing, every nation begun to adopt its own transcription
method, replacing "official one" used when URSS was united.
Think to Honchar or Gontchar: when there were URSS, transcription used
was the "official" russian, and his name was transcripted as Gontchar.
After Ucraine become independent, it adoptes its own method and Gontchar
become Honchar.
Nothing easier that for Stahurskaia was the same!
-- 
Massimo Bacilieri AKA Crononauta 
ICQ:4005815

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Can you do a sounds like phonic translation wording in English for me?
What does it sound like?
Star sa rave ah?
B-

 Star sa rave ah?
I guess something like: Stah - hoor - skah - yah.
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