It's better than the Georgian alphabet
Yes, we are well aware we are running this into the ground. We are treating the world of Bulgarian football with all the respect that a two-year-old accords to a new, fragile toy. Really, it’s just a chance to post something with Cyrillic writing and have Georger translate it for us.
But good G-D, do they make it easy for us over there. But really, what does one expect from a league that has three Lokomotivs (Mezdra, Plovdiv and Sofia) in it? There are two new stories today, both pretty much unmatched in the rest of UEFA for their oddity. Let’s go look.
First of all, Bulgarians take their Rule of Three very seriously. Apparently. Yesterday saw the resignation of three different managers. Velizar Popov of Cherno More Varna and Ivan Marinov of Lokomotiv Plovdiv both resigned after losses, while Diyan Petkov of Sliven gave his notice after a 1-1 draw. That all three resigned on one day isn’t even the crazy part. The really crazy statistic is that 11 games into the season, the 16 team league has had 13 managerial changes.
I wonder if Rafa is paying attention. He’s have been fired four times already over there.
Now, as best as I can tell, CSKA Sofia have not been one of the teams affected by a change of manager. Wikipedia tells me that Luboslav Penev is still in charge, and that’s good enough for me. Oh wait, this article tells me he is in charge, too, and it says he has suspended nine players for this week’s Europa League match. Five of those players are regular starters and one is a regular substitute. It’s a strong message to a team that A) the two losses in a row will not be tolerated and B) CSKA want nothing to do with the Europa League anymore.
Can you blame them?
Those last three threw me off, definitely not used in Russian, sneaky bastards, that’s a Ukranian stamp set.
Georgian looks like Elvish to me, possible the Tongue of Mordor.
so from what i gathered, there is not one cyrillic alphabet but many, like 6 and up….
i thought they all used the same one but i read online just now that they have differences between them…
we had a lad at work who learned the cyrillic alphabet from a serbian coworker and its phonetic (every letter makes a sound so you have basically no need for spelling bees) so after two hours the guy could write out sentences the other was reading to him but he didnt understand a single thing he wrote.
having spent countless years trying to learn french vocabulary (not that english is any better), it sort of made me wish that more alphabets were phonetic.
damn, getting educated while reading a footie blog just seems wrong… can you throw in some half nekkid birds to compensate…
cheers
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Yeah, I had no idea either, but I guess that’s just ignorance on my part. It’s not like Western alphabets all use the exact same set of characters.
BTW, we should all go to Esperanto. Its alphabet is phonetic.
I’d trade phonetics for the simplification of conjugating Romantic languages. Russian is a f**king nightmare, but rest assured, I will be able to ask “where is my suitcase” if I’m ever in Moscow.