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Wish you all a happy new year #16 (permalink) Sun Jan 07, 2007 15:59 pm   Wish you all a happy new year
 

Happy New year to all the communicators and contributors!

I do thank you all for the help and reply to my questions specially Moderator Ms. Yankee, and in particular Ms. Conchita.

I would like to have the opportunity to thank Mr Alan the moderator and Mr. Torsten the site admin whom I miss a lot with his contributions.

Happy New year ato al of you. Wish all the world to live in peace and safe.

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New Year #17 (permalink) Tue Jan 09, 2007 21:25 pm   New Year
 

My bad, Pamela.

I've seen it spelled "Andriy" often.

Kiev is represented as "Kyyiv" on some English-language maps and globes.

I'm not sure what got into me... to make me opt for the brutally American/Spanish/Italian (I suppose) "Andre".
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New Year #18 (permalink) Tue Jan 09, 2007 21:40 pm   New Year
 

Hhmm, that's an interesting topic. Most Ukrainian proper names have two versions -- a Russian and a Ukrainian one each of which have their own English version.

'Andrey' is the English version of the Russian original while 'Andriy' is the English version of the Ukrainian original. Since Shevchenko is Ukrainian, the official version of his name is properly 'Andriy'. The same holds true for the capital. 'Kiev' is the English version of the Russian name while 'Kyiv' is the English version of the Ukrainian original.

Hope this adds to the confusion Wink.
By the way, I haven't hang out neither with Andriy nor Andrey/Andrei Shevchenko (that is, not yet....)
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New Year #19 (permalink) Tue Jan 09, 2007 21:46 pm   New Year
 

What about Andre Shevchenko?

I bet there's someone in the world with that name. hehe
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New Year #20 (permalink) Tue Jan 09, 2007 22:01 pm   New Year
 

Maybe Google has the answer?
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New Year #21 (permalink) Tue Jan 09, 2007 22:32 pm   New Year
 

I can check the phone book, at least. hehe

"Sir, did you know your name's almost the same as great Ukrainian striker Andriyy Shevchenko? Hey, do you mind if I call you Sheva?"
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New Year #22 (permalink) Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:54 am   New Year
 

HI
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'Andrey' is the English version of the Russian original

(A bit off-topic Smile)
My daughter’s and son’s (Russian) names are 'Anna and Andr'ey, correspondingly (Smile)
Happily. Living in the UK, they both haven’t ever had any problem with their names.

One small aspect (first time a bit surprising/surprised me) is that Britons (at least in South England) I know all pronounce ‘Anna’ as ’Ana (with the first ‘a’ as in ‘run’ and very short ‘n’) – while I expected to hear something like ‘Ann’ (with ‘a’ as in ‘and’),

and they pronounce Andr'ey as ‘Andrew’ – with the first stressed ‘A’ as in ‘run’
(again, not as in ‘and’ as I expected for some bookish reasons Smile)
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New Year #23 (permalink) Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:14 am   New Year
 

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Andrey/Andrei Shevchenko

Another difference is that Ukrainian surnames in Russian are indeclinable
(despite the fact that Russian is highly ‘case grammar’ language, if I can say so)

whereas in Ukrainian 'of/to/for Shevchenko' would sound 'Shevchenku/Shevchenke/Shevchenki, etc'. If I’m not mistaken.
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New Year #24 (permalink) Wed Jan 10, 2007 15:03 pm   New Year
 

wouldn't that be "auf Shevchenko" in German?
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New Year #25 (permalink) Wed Jan 10, 2007 15:06 pm   New Year
 

Yep, and it rhymes with Klitschko.
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New Year #26 (permalink) Wed Jan 10, 2007 15:19 pm   New Year
 

you know, nothing chaps my @ss quite like when my headphones (earbuds, or whatever they're called -- the ones that are inserted in your ears) STOP WORKING.

Not only do I miss out on the tunes, but it also means that I'm forced to listen to the gossipy musings (she is LOUD) of a nearby coworker.

Do you guys feel me?

I'm trying to get my groove on and then all of a sudden, poof, the music's gone... then scratches back in, then is gone again... in the dead spots, I get to hear all about so-and-so's date with the dude ("doo") who drives an Escalade, and the awful woman he's dating.

Right now I'm monkeying with the cord, twisting it in an effort to get the music to stay on. Okay, this worked: I smacked the cord (the section in front of my chest) and the music is back on... been a good minute now without any dead spots. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

(sorry, I'm stressing here and figured I'd vent. hehe)
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New Year #27 (permalink) Mon Jan 15, 2007 13:56 pm   New Year
 

Tamara wrote:
Another difference is that Ukrainian surnames in Russian are indeclinable
(despite the fact that Russian is highly ‘case grammar’ language, if I can say so)

whereas in Ukrainian 'of/to/for Shevchenko' would sound 'Shevchenku/Shevchenke/Shevchenki, etc'. If I’m not mistaken.


You are absolutely right, Tamara. There is a declension of Ukrainian surnames in Ukrainian while there is none in Russian.
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