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Characters

Characters

Cyrillic letter

Latin look-alike

Actual pronunciation

G, S

/b/ as in "boy"

r, L, F

// as in "goat" or /h/ as in "hot"

s, z

// as in "goat" (cursive form of same letter as above)

A

/d/ as in "day"

X

// similar to "treasure"

E

/z/ as in "zoo"

N

/i/ as in "machine" or /i/ as in "tin"

,

J

/l/ as in "love"

Y

/u/ as in "rule"

O

/f/ as in "fox"

U

/ts/ as in "cats"

H/h, Y

/t/ similar to "check"

W

// similar to "shrunk"

E

// as in "echo"

R

/ja/ as in "yard"

P

P

/r/ as in "perro"

X

/x/ as in "loch"

B

indicates the palatalization of the previous consonant as in "union" as opposed to "unite"

IO

/ju/ as in "you"

E, C

/je/ as in "yes"

The letters , , , *, *, *, , , , , , , , *, * and are strongly homoglyphic to Latin letters and, in the event compatibility issues arise, can be used with Faux Cyrillic letters in lieu of their Latin counterparts. (Letters with a *, however, are not in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.)

Examples of use

Cinema

Poster art in the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The title of the film on movie posters is spelled BORT.

"KR" for Viktor Krum last name (should be ""), as spelled on a card mosaic held by a cheering crowd at the Quidditch World Cup, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film).

The film Red Heat (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi), of which a great part takes place in Soviet Russia and concerns a partnership between a Russian and an American officer, has faux Cyrillic in its end credits.

The poster for international releases of the Russian film Night Watch (written NIGHT ATCH) features a faux Cyrillic transliteration of the original Russian title /Nochnoi dozor: "OCHOI DOZOR". This graphic effect reinforces at a glance the film's Russian origin and serves as a guide to pronunciation of the original title for English speakers. It does not, however, represent a meaningful phrase in Russian.

The end credits in Enemy at the Gates is written in faux Cyrillic to further represent its plot following Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev during the Battle of Stalingrad.

The English-language poster for the 1995 Serbian film Underground is written in faux Cyrillic as NDRGND.

Popular music

The British Oi! punk band Angelic Upstarts' 2001 album "Anthems Against Scum" features Faux Cyrillic writing for the band's name (LIC USTRTS).

LIGAD COWBOYS, a Finnish, but "fake Russian" band, spelled with varying amounts of faux Cyrillic (Actual Cyrillic: ).

The poster in the scene on the cover of Firesign Theatre's album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All reads "LL HIL" (Groucho) "MX" (John) "L".

Frank Zappa's "I don't wanna get drafted" single features the text I I IP E EE? (IS THIS TRIP REALLY NECESSARY?)

Franz Ferdinand's music video for "This Fire" features ""s instead of "N"s as well as the phrases "AKING N" (Breaking News) and "HEO" (Phenomena) on a Russian news station.

The British indie rock band FWD, RUSSI! (FORWARD, RUSSIA!) use both faux Cyrillic and decorative inverted exclamation points to add the effect of foreignness in their wordmark.

The gothic/doom metal band Type O Negative's 2007 album 'Dead Again' features Faux Cyrillic writing for both the band's name ( GV) and the album title (DD G).

Videogames

The videogame Tetris, sometimes shown as TETIS (Actual Cyrillic: )

In Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, the backdrop of the level briefings is a book which is written in Cyrillic; but the language is actually English. The letter che () is used to write the letter H.

The PC game Republic: The Revolution contains many examples of Faux Cyrillic during gameplay.

The PC game DEFCON has Faux Cyrillic as part of its title on the logo ( is used to write N).

The 8-bit Computer Game Rasputin which originally came out for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore-64, used Faux-Cyrillic in the Title Screen, the Loading screen, in much of the advertisement for the game and in the game itself where faux cyrillic is written on some of the blocks used as platforms.

In Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride, the main antagonist, Grandmaster Nimzo, has dialogue in faux Cyrillic.

In the computer versions of Strider and Strider II produced by Tiertex and U.S. Gold, the title screens show the first "R" is replaced with an "".

The video game Singularity uses SIGULITY title in its promotion.

In Call of Duty: Finest Hour, when doing the Eastern campaign you can see many poster and banners written in Cyrillic. Also in the intro movie you can see a banner written in Cyrillic.

Other

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (December 2009)

APPAATCHIK, a fanzine (Actual Cyrillic: )

In Copenhagen (in Denmark) you can buy shirts with the names of parts of Copenhagen. (, , V etc. Here corresponds to .)

The website Exquisite Corpse uses it in their letterhead (i.e. CPZe).

The early seasons of the television series Mission: Impossible used faux Cyrillic signs to indicate an "Iron Curtain" location.

The Airfix model kit of the standard Russian launch vehicle included a decal for the display base, bearing faux Cyrillic designations for the Sputnik, Vostok and Soyuz programs, and for the USSR itself, even though the correct Cyrillic spellings (, , and ) are all fairly common knowledge in the West, and particularly among those with an interest in space exploration.

The Khachaturian CD Piano Concerto; Dance Suite; Waltz; Polka features an egregious example of Faux Cyrillic, including upper-case lambdas and a lower-case upsilon (both recognizably from the Greek alphabet) and a reversed i kratkoe (nonexistent in Cyrillic).

In the Nicktoon El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, the opening card of the episode El Tigre, el Jefe, which literally translates as "El Tigre, the chief", is written in faux Cyrillic (EL TIE EL JEFE) because, in this episode, Manny, the main character, decides to help his schoolmates to the point of unknowingly establishing a Stalinist-like dictatorship at the school.

Notes and references

^ Jen Chen, "Sweater Hip Check", The Pitch (Kansas City), February 15, 2007 online

^ In Cyrillic typography, most upright lower case letters resemble smaller upper case letters, unlike the more distinctive forms of Latin-alphabet type. Cursive Cyrillic upper and lower case letters are more differentiated. Cyrillic letter-forms are originally derived from tenth-century Greek manuscript, but the modern forms more closely resemble Latin since Peter the Great's civil script reform of 1708.

^ "American Perceptions of Vodka Shaken, Not Stirred: An Analysis of the Importance of Vodka Foreign Branding Cues and Country-of-Origin Information", Jon Kurland, October 26, 2004 full text

^ Englis, Basil G. (1994). Global and Multinational Advertising. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p.123. ISBN 0805813950, 9780805813951.

^ Shaw, Tony (2007). Hollywood's Cold War. Edinburgh University Press. p.288. ISBN 0748625240. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qOMT4oOylAkC&pg=PA288&dq=mock+Cyrillic&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U16azxr4ghIWd2Do1L6a_S_dLWJUg#PPA288,M1.

^ Image of film poster for Underground

^ Amazon.com

See also

Foreign branding

Heavy metal umlaut for a similar practice in the field of heavy metal

IDN homograph attack

Leet for a similar manner of replacing Latin letters with other glyphs that resemble them

Samples of simulation typefaces

Transformation of text

Volapk encoding, Translit, Russian Chat Alphabet, Informal romanizations of Russian

External links

Fake Cyrillic Generator - Converts Latin text to faux Cyrillic.

Russian Mimic - Also converts Latin text to faux Cyrillic (supports upper and lower case)

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