@RusA #9857973 what is Frankfruter? Like u eat hot dog everyday
"Frankfurter" means anyone or anything from Frankfurt, just like Hamburgers are from Hamburg and Berliners are from Berlin. Our use of the word "frankfurter" comes from the Frankfurter Würstchen, a boiled smoked pork sausage in a casing. Although we informally call hot dogs "frankfurters" or "franks", a real American frankfurter is shorter and thicker, and has a casing, which hot dogs don't have. That's why hot dogs are often called "skinless franks". Real frankfurters are more versatile than hot dogs: in my family, they were an ingredient, along with bratwurst and other sausages in one of our favorite dishes, wurst and kraut (sausages cooked in sauerkraut). This isn't really very tasty if you use hot dogs.
I read somewhere that Russian letters made by their king who can't read, so...their letters are so weird
Russian letters, or more exactly, Cyrillic letters because they're used in other languages as well, were invented by two Greek scholars, Cyril and Methodius, who brought both literacy and Orthodoxy to the pagan Bulgarians in the ninth century. Actually, they created an odd-looking script called Glagolitic, which was altered by scholars under the authority of Tsar Simeon the Great a few years later. The letters are based on Greek, with some non-Greek sounds represented by altered Galgolitic letters, like the "backwards R", which is actually a vowel pronounced "ya" (as in, "Yah, you betcha!" ) The first Cyrillic script was used to write Old Church Slavonic, which today is the liturgical language of the Russian churches, but is actually an old form of Bulgarian, related to but distinct from Russian. The modern Cyrillic alphabet was mostly developed under the authority of Tsar Peter the Great as part of his modernization of Russian culture around the year 1700, in order to make typesetting and printing easier. It resembles the Greek alphabet even more today, and if you know that one, you know about 85% of Cyrillic.
The Russian parish I hang around at has some old prayer books written in Slavonic in their library, dating from before 1970 when they switched to mostly English services. They're really quite interesting, even though I can't read a bit of them.
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@RusA #9857973
what is Frankfruter? Like u eat hot dog everyday
"Frankfurter" means anyone or anything from Frankfurt, just like Hamburgers are from Hamburg and Berliners are from Berlin.
I read somewhere that Russian letters made by their king who can't read, so...their letters are so weird
Russian letters, or more exactly, Cyrillic letters because they're used in other languages as well, were invented by two Greek scholars, Cyril and Methodius, who brought both literacy and Orthodoxy to the pagan Bulgarians in the ninth century. Actually, they created an odd-looking script called Glagolitic, which was altered by scholars under the authority of Tsar Simeon the Great a few years later. The letters are based on Greek, with some non-Greek sounds represented by altered Galgolitic letters, like the "backwards R", which is actually a vowel pronounced "ya" (as in, "Yah, you betcha!"
The Russian parish I hang around at has some old prayer books written in Slavonic in their library, dating from before 1970 when they switched to mostly English services. They're really quite interesting, even though I can't read a bit of them.