could cause confusion
21 Jul 2009 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneThis must be from Finland. I can't even count the amount of times Finns have made this mistake out loud to me:
The local system doesn't differentiate between V and W for purposes of alphabetization so it's easy to see how this potentially could happen, I suppose, although when it eventually comes down to simply remembering which is which - ie, for non-novices - it gets a lot harder to understand. I presume they know that one method is for Russian (and some other languages) and one is for English and simply can't match them up on the spur of the moment.
The local system doesn't differentiate between V and W for purposes of alphabetization so it's easy to see how this potentially could happen, I suppose, although when it eventually comes down to simply remembering which is which - ie, for non-novices - it gets a lot harder to understand. I presume they know that one method is for Russian (and some other languages) and one is for English and simply can't match them up on the spur of the moment.
