Excuse my... Russian

[tilia_tomentosa]

This is just to amuse my Russian readers with my latest desperate attempt at a real-time chat in Russian without a spell check (I was discussing with a native speaker my even more desperate attempt to translate a little educational brochure about LGBT people from Bulgarian into Russian, which he proposed to edit into normal Russian

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[leafshimmer]

Curious: do you have separate (physical) keyboards for Cyrillic vs. Roman, or do you just use a Cyrillic keyboard that has a Roman keyboard option accessed with a keyboard command?

I can read the emoticons, at least. ;)

[tilia_tomentosa]

It's the same physical QWERTY keyboard. It has the more "official" Bulgarian Cyrillic layout in the bottom left corner of each key, but I use another Cyrillic layout, which is based on phonetic correspondence with the roman letters, so I only need to know maybe six or seven keys by heart.

I use a simple key combination to switch alphabets, but it can also be done with the mouse.

I hesitate to install any version of the Russian Cyrillic because I don't want to have THREE alphabets to switch between all the time, so I have to copy two Russian letters that we don't have, inconvenient as it is (or use Word's Insert Symbol menu).

[hettie_lz]

it's not THAT bad :)

[tilia_tomentosa]

Hettie, I already get confused often enough just with two alphabets to switch from. :)

[hettie_lz]

nice :)

[tilia_tomentosa]

:)