# Why do players use cyrillic alphabet? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2018, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347 "2018-08-24T10:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Balos\_Tritapo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/balos_tritapo/32/89875_2.png) [@Balos\_Tritapo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Balos_Tritapo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/41 "2018-08-24T12:10:25Z")
> [@Smartphone\_5G](#): > > “you are a terrible troll” - yes i used google translate for this one, - but should every new player be forced to do that? Why not? What’s the problem? ---
**Author:** ![Gregorius\_Goldstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gregorius_goldstein/32/11133_2.png) [@Gregorius\_Goldstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gregorius_Goldstein)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/42 "2018-08-24T12:10:58Z")
Yeah, sad that there are even answers other than 🐟🎣🐡🐠 ---
**Author:** ![erg\_cz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/erg_cz/32/392645_2.png) [@erg\_cz](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/erg_cz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/43 "2018-08-24T12:11:59Z")
> [@Balos\_Tritapo](#): > > still totally senseless…the only reason given by the op ist “i find the letters ugly so begone with them”…so he (personally) is annoyed by them… > > this person has no RIGHT to demand this and no other one has… > > And to this a clear : NO It does make sense to me. I mean, my suggestion. I am absolutely agree with you about OP attempt to demand gramatical genocide. ---
**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/44 "2018-08-24T12:12:03Z")
Hey, look, it’s Cyrillic alphabet soup: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/7/8/78d96e24e80caba468833ac92a15376c54ebce62.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Balos\_Tritapo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/balos_tritapo/32/89875_2.png) [@Balos\_Tritapo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Balos_Tritapo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/45 "2018-08-24T12:14:36Z")
> [@erg\_cz](#): > > It does make sense to me. I mean, my suggestion. > > I am absolutely agree with you about OP attempt to demand gramatical genocide. It’s just like Donald T. would state “i cannot break the law,i am the law”…🙂 The OP would state “i write english so i rule over all others”… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smartphone\_5G](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smartphone_5g/32/86652_2.png) [@Smartphone\_5G](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smartphone_5G)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/46 "2018-08-24T12:28:15Z")
Dont quite understand you reference there… But I do understand what Im asking for. ---
**Author:** ![Avaelica\_Kuershin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/avaelica_kuershin/32/478139_2.png) [@Avaelica\_Kuershin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Avaelica_Kuershin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/47 "2018-08-24T12:30:33Z")
> [@Smartphone\_5G](#): > > Its a noob thing. > > Simply, people find it really really weird when they log into the game 1st time and look in chat and see someone writing in cyrillic… - They get spooked, woundered, etc… - Simply by the fact, thats everything is new to them and on top of that they didnt understand the cyrillic language… > > - Put your self in that place… How about putting yourself in the position of a new Russian/Korean/Indian/Greek… who wonders why they have to use the Latin alphabet to communicate. (what I really want to say is not for these forums but it’s along the line of what Blackadder says to Baldrick) ---
**Author:** ![Balos\_Tritapo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/balos_tritapo/32/89875_2.png) [@Balos\_Tritapo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Balos_Tritapo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/48 "2018-08-24T12:32:31Z")
> [@Avaelica\_Kuershin](#): > > How about putting yourself in the position of a new Russian/Korean/Indian/Greek… who wonders why they have to use the Latin alphabet to communicate. > (what I really want to say is not for these forums but it’s along the line of what Blackadder says to Baldrick) Exactly… For those people english is “the ugly foreign language”. Why treat them different just because YOU are english speaker… ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/49 "2018-08-24T12:35:34Z")
Languages are not ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Smartphone\_5G](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/smartphone_5g/32/86652_2.png) [@Smartphone\_5G](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Smartphone_5G)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/50 "2018-08-24T12:41:41Z")
I get you are somehow angry? But I dont understand quite how you can be? - Please explain, what this change would take away from you? Also, you know, those greeks or other kind of people you try to disgrace by not knowing the english lanuguage, - i will defend and put it out right here, - that they do KNOW how to type in english and use those kinky english letters to communicate from player to player. - As I just put it, - those players are NOT stupid and well aware that online games in our world and time are scarce, and do they want to join one, - admittedly they will have to communicate in a language preferred in our world - english. ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/51 "2018-08-24T12:43:39Z")
> [@erg\_cz](#): > > > [@Balos\_Tritapo](#): > > > > Everyone has the RIGHT to write in his own language > > And my suggestion is not against it. It is not about how people write, it is about how people read. Russians still can write in cyrilic but I want other players to be able to see their cyrilic letters replaced by latin equivalent. In many cases, there is no ‘Latin’ equivalent. For example, ‘cabbage soup’ is literally two letters, щи. A rough English translation is ‘shchi’ but if someone wrote it like that, you’d have no better understanding of what they said than if they used ‘щи’. I suggest you just get used to the fact that people speak other languages. This might come as a shock to you, but they’re allowed to. ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/52 "2018-08-24T12:45:26Z")
Before commenting on anyone else’s linguistic indulgences, you really should make sure your own English is up to snuff. It’s really kinda bad. ---
**Author:** ![erg\_cz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/erg_cz/32/392645_2.png) [@erg\_cz](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/erg_cz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/53 "2018-08-24T12:50:10Z")
> [@erg\_cz](#): > > I can read latin and cyrillic without problem > [@Remiel\_Pollard](#): > > I suggest you just get used to the fact that people speak other languages. This might come as a shock to you, but they’re allowed to. I can understand 4 european languages spoken and written. Including russian. So save you suggestions for yourself and learn to read entire conversation before giving ‘intelegent’ advices. And if some russian speaking ignorant will try to force non-russian speaking player to talk about щи in russian, that is his problem. My suggestion was to help communicate about EVE related topics. ---
**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/54 "2018-08-24T12:51:21Z")
> [@Remiel\_Pollard](#): > > In many cases, there is no ‘Latin’ equivalent. For example, ‘cabbage soup’ is literally two letters, щи. A rough English translation is ‘shchi’ but if someone wrote it like that, you’d have no better understanding of what they said than if they used ‘щи’. I suggest you just get used to the fact that people speak other languages. This might come as a shock to you, but they’re allowed to. I know an English two-letter word to spell “cabbage soup”: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/0/6/06bef388f5f6352a7df5f044b1a8efdf95fb3710.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/55 "2018-08-24T12:52:34Z")
\*Intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![erg\_cz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/erg_cz/32/392645_2.png) [@erg\_cz](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/erg_cz)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/56 "2018-08-24T12:54:28Z")
> [@Remiel\_Pollard](#): > > \*Intelligent. Stand corrected. As I said - I can understand, not write 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Solstice\_Projekt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/solstice_projekt/32/503293_2.png) [@Solstice\_Projekt](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Solstice_Projekt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/57 "2018-08-24T12:57:13Z")
You should seek professional help. ---
**Author:** ![Mortlake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mortlake/32/510240_2.png) [@Mortlake](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mortlake)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/58 "2018-08-24T12:58:16Z")
Just summing up for new arrivals. ![Train%20Wreck](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/1/4/14f7cfa7862099eb6ef1f479d5577f42b0716b29.gif) Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/59 "2018-08-24T13:00:41Z")
> [@Smartphone\_5G](#): > > I dont like to be mocked and I dont like the people who are mocking me. Then perhaps you shouldn’t say incredibly stupid things that deserve mockery, such as… > Can the game designers block these ugly letters? and > If they dont have money to buy real keyboards… They are real keyboards. They’re just made for people who use a different alphabet. I’m pretty sure, now that I’ve actually read it, that your OP is either a big troll, or you are incredibly narrow minded. Maybe it’s a bit of both, mixed with a little bigotry and stupidity, I don’t know, but your post is bad and you should feel bad. ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347/60 "2018-08-24T13:00:48Z")
Languages with latin alphabets can be very hard to understand and read too. Try this: liść na drzewie potargał wiatr. 😉 [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-do-players-use-cyrillic-alphabet/100347.md?page=4)