It took a good 5 minutes read of the entire blog post to understand that "Do Svidaniya" is actually "До Свидания" (Russian), meaning "until next time/Goodbye".
Vow, for a rare occasion that one translates rather nicely.
One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages. Should you use y or j for palatal sounds? Seems like there are also french influenced transliterations for vowels. These can be inconsistent based on the source.
Yeah, that leads to the question of which transliteration to use.
> One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages.
Eng Michael(?) Gorbachev, Ger Michail Gorbatschow, Swe Mikhail Gorbatjov...
> Should you use y or j for palatal sounds?
'Xackly: Eng/Ger Boris Yeltsin, Swe Boris Jeltsin.
Except nobody knows how the Russian characters even sounds: