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  • I don’t know if I’d call it a misfeature, English does it a lot

    It’s been forever since I learned any Ukrainian but Ukrainian is a lot more “strict” with their vowel sounds than Russian

    о stays an о, unlike Russian where it can become an “ah”

    As far as I am aware with Ukrainian it’s just е raised towards и (and back again depending on where stress is placed), hence the original comment. Trips up everyone learning Ukrainian




  • For transliteration sure… but both of the letters in question are pronounced differently… The first е is unstressed but the second е is stressed. This would make the first sound more like an i, especially for Russians, which would make more sense if they had written Zilensky based on how it sounds when spoken

    Either way, call it a little typo