The Underwood serves beautifully in illustrating what a drop-dead gorgeous typewriter the Royal is - from any angle. Fiction both. The alphabet they use in Russia is called Cyrillic - but you knew that :-)
Yes, I'm afraid Pearl is a bit of an ugly duckling.
Her story is true, though.
The Greek letters that Pearl (and any Roman-alphabet typewriter) can write are: ETYIOPAHKZXBNM (Transliterated back into Roman, that's etyioraēkzchbnm)
The Russian letters that Pearl can write are: ETOPAHKXCBM (Transliterated back into Roman, that's etorankkhsvm)
There are different variants of Cyrillic; I specified Russian because Ukrainian Cyrillic includes the letter I, while Russian does not.
Good question. My Russian is basically nonexistent. I know some Greek and can see that some words can be formed, for instance NIKH = nikē = victory, or MANIA = mania = madness.
Rhett, the Royal KH, looks amazingly clean and slick! Whoever gets to own it is lucky.
ReplyDeleteThe Underwood is a pearl. Does Rhett get to write, "Frankly, my dear ..."?
ReplyDeletePearl - Fact.
ReplyDeleteRoyals never give a damn?
ReplyDeleteI take it that the Royal has come to 'Kleen zie pooooool'. (cue funky music).
ReplyDeleteMmmm.... Rhett Royal is indeed a great porn name, to go with that mo.
..... Not that I would ever watch such stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe Underwood serves beautifully in illustrating what a drop-dead gorgeous typewriter the Royal is - from any angle. Fiction both. The alphabet they use in Russia is called Cyrillic - but you knew that :-)
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm afraid Pearl is a bit of an ugly duckling.
DeleteHer story is true, though.
The Greek letters that Pearl (and any Roman-alphabet typewriter) can write are:
ETYIOPAHKZXBNM
(Transliterated back into Roman, that's etyioraēkzchbnm)
The Russian letters that Pearl can write are:
ETOPAHKXCBM
(Transliterated back into Roman, that's etorankkhsvm)
There are different variants of Cyrillic; I specified Russian because Ukrainian Cyrillic includes the letter I, while Russian does not.
Now I want to know how many Greek and Russian words can be crafted with the letters on a standard Roman alphabet typewriter.
DeleteGood question. My Russian is basically nonexistent. I know some Greek and can see that some words can be formed, for instance NIKH = nikē = victory, or MANIA = mania = madness.
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