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Another bold move by Trump: the US switches to Cyrillic script today (www.timesnewroman.ro)

submitted 4 months ago by Viking_Hippie to c/theonion@midwest.social

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26072485

Not a day goes by without a blow administered by Donald Trump to the terrible Wokist-Sorororist octopus! The White House leader today signed the decree officially switching the United States to the Cyrillic alphabet, ending the dark age of Latin script on America's sunny Gulf coasts.

"You know who uses Latin letters? Mexicans and Colombians, who bring us drugs. Why use a crackhead alphabet when there's a great one, absolutely wow, invented by two monks. The monks aren't druggies, they're not Mexicans, they don't eat dogs. That's it. From now on, anyone who writes in Latin eats cats. Canadians. You're effectively the last Canadians," Trump said, alluding to his earlier war against Mexicans who eat dogs and cats after marinating them overnight in a drug-laced, super-proven and verified drug bath.

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Trump's upright gesture and sent him a gift of a set of colored pencils produced at the famous "Pobeda" stationery factory in Pasholnahuisk.

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[–] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 months ago

I know this is false because it would probably also require them to use SI units. We know that's never going to happen.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Файнали, уи дон'т хев ту уори абаут спелинг энимор, иц ол ритан хау иц рэд.

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

~~Перехожу на кириллицу, чтобы владеть либертардами. Буквам плевать на твои чувства, снежинка~~
Сwитчинг то Цыриллиц то оwн тхе либтардс. Леттерс доньт царе абоут ыоур феелингс, сноwфлаке

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ам сояяу тчат уоц тчоцбчт ше шеяе цсфиб тче агрчаьет сояяестгу. Ше аяеит тнат смаят

[–] Sprinks@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

My favorite detail about this post is the cyrillic writing used for Trump, Трамп, spells out Tramp in the thumbnail. (Learning Ukrainian, not fluent but feel comfortable with cyrillic alphabet)

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

That's actually how it's generally spelled in order to be a phonetically close transliteration of the name. The <а> in Трамп is pronounced /a/, which is closest to the /ʌ/ in Trump.

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

The article image is great, too bad it's so cropped

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Хахаха, владеть либертардами. Очень смешной видеть фразу переведена на другой язык)

Может государство США Трампа разработать 1-ю подходящую кириллическую ортографию для английский язык, где все другие не удались? Заплачу им 10 руб

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Trump's upright gesture and sent him a gift of a set of colored pencils produced at the famous "Pobeda" stationery factory in Pasholnahuisk.

"Pashol Nahui" means to "go on a dick". A small detail you might have missed.

[–] wasabi@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 4 months ago

Russian equivalent of "go fuck yourself"

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I thought this was legit at first, lol!

Goes to show how ridiculous shit has gotten

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Натинг эбаут зе ЮСА сюрпрайзес ми энимор.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

Не шокирован.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 1 points 4 months ago

Am râs.