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From: andre@shappski.demon.co.uk (Andre Shapps)
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Subject: Re: The logic of "and" and "but"
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In article: <D4ozwK.n2F@actrix.gen.nz>  kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha) 
writes:

> No it's not supposed to be a mixture of Cyrillic and Latin scripts.
> There is a transcription standard (unfortunatelly several of them :-( ).
> It's a co-incidence that "X" chosen to represent the Russian 'ch'
> (as in loch) looks like the Cyrillic letter representing the same
> sound.

Thanks for putting me right on that one. Still, why don't people post in KOI-8 
like they do on the Relcom newsgroups? Is it just a matter of convenience?
-- 
Andre Shapps

