Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Alex · 03-11-2007, 09:09 PM

The movie has further annoyed me by engaging in a practice that bugs the heck out of me: using foreign letters in place of Latin letters that they coincidentally resemble. Since I frequently know what those foreign letters mean it results in nonsense.

Toys Я Us is automatically read as "Toys Ya Us" and similarly seeing the DVD posters displaying the title of Borat as Borдt has me grumbling "what is this movie Bordt I keep reading about?"

Though I do wonder if the Moscow Toys я Us (should there be one) is named Игрушки R Мы (even if Russian doesn't use the verb "are" in present tense).

Incredibly minor thing to find annoying, but nonetheless I do.

03-11-2007, 09:09 PM	#29
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	The movie has further annoyed me by engaging in a practice that bugs the heck out of me: using foreign letters in place of Latin letters that they coincidentally resemble. Since I frequently know what those foreign letters mean it results in nonsense. Toys Я Us is automatically read as "Toys Ya Us" and similarly seeing the DVD posters displaying the title of Borat as Borдt has me grumbling "what is this movie Bordt I keep reading about?" Though I do wonder if the Moscow Toys я Us (should there be one) is named Игрушки R Мы (even if Russian doesn't use the verb "are" in present tense). Incredibly minor thing to find annoying, but nonetheless I do.
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