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Mar 20th 2021 at 10:41:23 AM
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Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Needs Help
, started by Leaper on Jun 10th 2014 at 6:29:02 PM
Confused here as you haven't really explained how "sujet" is pronounced.
At first you think "Oh, Looks vaguely French". Therefore it's pronounced as per French or even English - "Su-Jet".
Then yu explain it comes from Russian. Oh right, Russian word transliterated into Latin. It's got a "J" in it still, so this is evidently the Eastern European version. therefore "Suh-YHET". Got it.
And then you give us the presumed original Cyrillic spelling Сюжет. Which doesn't have a "J"-sound in it at all, neither eatern nor western European. What it does have in Russian is the "ж", which is a sort of "Kh" thing. Therefore, "Suh-K'het".
Which IS it, please?
Edited by AgProv