Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Malediction Redux


And by the preceding of course I did not intend any slur against the Uzbek language. The imprecation was instead a reference the degree of difficulty - and by extension presumed lack of satisfaction - in apprehending an Uzbek webpage the average English speaker would encounter, from the alien Turkic grammar itself (possibly rendered in Arabic!), to Turkic and Arabic words spelled out in ill-fitting Cyrillic or for that matter Uighur pinyin or even Uyghur Siril Yéziqi.

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