As revolutionaries, we don’t have the right to say we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We know that when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us.
― Thomas Sankara
I am always happy when someone encounters something interesting for the first time
In 1987, Billy Joel released a live album recorded as part of his tour in the USSR. The Russian word for concert is концерт. This is romanized and pronounced “kontsert”. So this is what the album was named: Kontsert. Except it was actually spelled on the album cover in Cyrillic.
So when English record companies went to enter it into their systems, instead of entering the romanized version of the word, they just entered whatever letter looked most similar to them. And those records were what was later used as the basis of music databases like the ones used by iTunes.
To this day, you can go on Spotify and listen to Billy Joel’s live record from the USSR, titled “Kohuept”
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never feel like you need to apologize for not being aware of something here! education is an eternally ongoing process.
This is true in the small but also the large:
I am always happy when someone encounters something interesting for the first time
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In case of the meme it was the Cyrillic alphabet. Writing systems and their origins can be fun!
Cool Cyrillic story.
In 1987, Billy Joel released a live album recorded as part of his tour in the USSR. The Russian word for concert is концерт. This is romanized and pronounced “kontsert”. So this is what the album was named: Kontsert. Except it was actually spelled on the album cover in Cyrillic.
So when English record companies went to enter it into their systems, instead of entering the romanized version of the word, they just entered whatever letter looked most similar to them. And those records were what was later used as the basis of music databases like the ones used by iTunes.
To this day, you can go on Spotify and listen to Billy Joel’s live record from the USSR, titled “Kohuept”
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