At Friday, October 15, 1999, 9:32:15 PM, \\'alter has typed the gibberish below:
\\'>>> Russia or Poland?
M>> Whatever made you think it was Poland????
a> The last names of the developers and the many responces coming from
a> Poland.
Wrong.
I'm from Poland myself, and let me teach you one thing about Russian
and Polish last names:
1. Polish names NEVER have a "v" (vee) in them.
2. Russian names are easy to read for you! If you read a Russian name,
let's say, Sheishenko, it sounds fine. Try to read a Polish name!
Krzysztof Szczyglowski, or Mariusz Mistrzewicz for example!
That's because the Russian people use an alphabet completely
different from the 26-letter ASCII and to write their names in
ASCII they have to convert them to the proper English-style
phonetics.
Poland uses ASCII, only extended with 9 special letters. That's why
Polish names are written as they are in Poland, which makes them
easy to read by Poles and a horror to read for foreigners (you see,
Polish pronounciation is WAY different from English).
3. Polish names NEVER end with "-kov". That's a Russian (or
post-russian, anyway) feature ONLY. Sure, sure, there ARE
exceptions, but that's a general rule.
Most Polish names end with "-ski" or "-cki".
Hope that clears things up a little :P
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