they do not have “h”, therefore they write “говно – govno” instead of “hovno”…., they have “x” what is the “kh” or “ch”…..
Martinez, sorry, but that is not an argument that makes sense to me.
How do Russians transliterate Hillary Clinton? And how do they transliterate Hamlet?
The difference between these two perplexes me.
NB, re: “говно” – Serbian most definitely has a “h” (or “х”) but Serbian for govno is still “govno/говно”. I think probably what we’re dealing with a h –> g (or vice-versa) shift in Slavic languages that has taken root completely in some and only partially in others. Hence, you think “hovno” and “hrad” are normal where as in Serbian “govno” and “grad” are (even though we do have “h”).
Anyway, apologies to all for going off topic so completely. I’m personally much more interested in a standardisation of Russian designations so there is less confusion between things like MiG-29C and MiG-29S and the aforementioned X-38 vs Kh-38 mix-up.
EDIT: incidentally, the article Haavarla posted above says that a Kh-38 (or X-38 or whatever) can hit moving armoured vehicles at a distance of blah blah blah… and it suddenly occurred to me to think: “the Russians don’t really use Kh-38s on armoured vehicles do they???” Would bring new meaning to the term overkill if they did.
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