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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2009-07-21 09:20 pm

could cause confusion

This 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.

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