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Jul 4, 2020 at 17:49 comment added user31264 Мицуко, можно узнать, как вы ответили и что написал учитель? Мне интересно.
Jun 29, 2020 at 11:27 comment added Quassnoi @Mitsuko: Polish ł is pronounced as English w, it would be rendered something like "bwotska" in Polish
Jun 27, 2020 at 16:25 comment added Mitsuko >> Ok, but if somebody with surname Blocka would go to the USA, after a couple of generations they will read her surname as Блока << If a Pole has the surname Błocka, that Pole is a female, for a male would be Błocki. Now let's suppose our Polish female Ms. Błocka goes to the USA, marries someone, and gives rise to "a couple of generations." Which surname will her children have - her own original surname or the surname of the father? :) I'm afraid the Western tradition stipulates the latter, which breaks your scenario :)
Jun 27, 2020 at 15:58 comment added user31264 Ok, but if somebody with surname Blocka would go to the USA, after a couple of generations they will read her surname as Блока. Like Сорос, whose surname on Hungarian should be Шорош. :-)
Jun 27, 2020 at 14:19 comment added Mitsuko Oh, you are such a cheater :) What you found isn't Блока :) It's Błocka, a Polish surname, and it's pronounced in Polish as Блоцка and is transliterated into Russian as Блоцкая :) So it's not easy to trick an Orient student who learns and studies languages, right? :))
Jun 27, 2020 at 14:05 comment added user31264 @Mitsuko there is such a family name. I found, e.g, myheritage.com/…
Jun 27, 2020 at 12:18 comment added Mitsuko It's a bit of a stretch to assume the speaker has in mind someone with the surname Блока :) On the Internet, I couldn't find anyone with that surname, let alone poets :) And you seem to have been unable to find such people either, since your example is about Бpока rather than Блока :) Anyway, my confusion was due to the difficulty of choosing between Блока and Блок assuming it's about the Russian poet everyone heard about :)
Jun 27, 2020 at 10:09 history answered user31264 CC BY-SA 4.0