{"id":28530,"date":"2018-04-27T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28530"},"modified":"2018-04-27T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T11:25:37","slug":"kazakhstan-is-changing-its-alphabet-from-cyrillic-to-latin-based-style-favored-by-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/27\/kazakhstan-is-changing-its-alphabet-from-cyrillic-to-latin-based-style-favored-by-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you think you’ve ever been involved in a huge and complex project, think again.\u00a0 Slashdot runs the story:\u00a0Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a huge change in many regards – technical, cultural, social, etc.\u00a0 Trying to remember when was the last time I heard about a project of this magnitude, September 3rd of 1967 in Sweden<\/a> comes to mind.\u00a0 That’s when the country switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to driving on the right-hand side of the road.\u00a0 An icon photograph depicting the change is this one:<\/p>\n

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And that’s still easier and simpler than the alphabet change, I think.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

If you think you’ve ever been involved in a huge and complex project, think again.\u00a0 Slashdot runs the story:\u00a0Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West. This is a huge change in many regards – technical, cultural, social, etc.\u00a0 Trying to remember when was the last time I heard … Continue reading Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Kazakhstan Is Changing Its Alphabet From Cyrillic To Latin-Based Style Favored By the West #world #Kazakhstan #language #politics #history","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[286,903,243,334],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-history","tag-kazakhstan","tag-language","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11107,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/23\/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan\/","url_meta":{"origin":28530,"position":0},"title":"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I think that Sacha Baron Cohen is one of the most talented people in today's comedy.\u00c2\u00a0 I've seen and appreciated much of his work.\u00c2\u00a0 If you aren't too familiar with it, among other things, he is mostly famous for creating three characters which appear on a number of shows and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "4 stars"","block_context":{"text":"4 stars","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/movies\/movie-reviews\/4-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9739,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/06\/billing-its-a-serious-matter\/","url_meta":{"origin":28530,"position":1},"title":"Billing. 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