brown@rochester.UUCP (Chris Brown) (01/01/84)
Right. In response to one of you, I don't know if Poland uses that plastic, acrylic Russky alphabet. But I did find out from a sourse I trust that we here in the west do have a spelling problem...the l and e in Walesa are both decorated in the original spelling, and result in sounds most closely rendered by Walter Cronkite's pronounciation. Thanks to all who participated. CB
root@zehntel.UUCP (01/06/84)
#R:rocheste:-430300:zinfandel:15500006:000:887 zinfandel!berry Jan 5 15:29:00 1984 Poland most emphatically does NOT use the cyrillic alphabet. Such a suggestion could start a fight in some of the less-than-elegant bars in Warsaw, where I lived for two years. (In Warsaw, not in a bar!) The Poles in general have little love for Russians. The joke is told of the time the Mayor (or whatever) of Warsaw was trying to get rid of the rats in the city. Finally a little guy brought a wind-up rat to city hall, wound it up and let it go. It ran around, gathering a large crowd of rats following it, and finally went into the Wisla River (That's 'Vistula' in English. Ugly name, I like the original better). The Mayor crowed wiht glee, and offered the little guy any reward he could name. "But first" he said "do you have any little wind-up Russion Soldiers....?" Berry (Now THATS a Polish Joke) Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900