Feeling Illiterate
In one of those moments when I thought I'd relax a bit and do something useless, I searched alexa.com for this blog. Among several expected or predictable results, I found one that struck me as unusual. It was a reference to an article that began this way:
??????? ? ??????? ?? "????????????? ???????????"
?????? ????????
with what I presume is a title and an author's name. It turns out that one of my blog articles ("New Illiteracy") is part of reference number 5 in this article.
[Added a little bit later: It seems we guessed right about the second line being a name. Looking further I found a photograph of a young woman, presumably the author, whose name transliterates as Melina Tsvetkova. Her e-mail address is in the top-level domain for Bulgaria.]
It all makes me feel very scholarly and cospmopolitan being an authority for a paper [?] whose title I can't read because my memory of Cyrillic is very, very rusty. I tried to deduce what the nature of the paper might be by looking at the other two parts of reference #5, but the only thing I could see in common among the three of us is that the word "Literacy" or "Illiteracy" figured in each of the three titles, and my article really had little to do with illiteracy except in a vaguely ironic way.
So, I may be more in the dark than before, but at least it's a cosmopolitan darkness. If anyone can illuminate the situation, please feel free to leave a comment.
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on Thursday, 6 April 2006 at 23.57
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I have a rough translation for you. I would ask my Bulgarian friend, but she does not respond to emails.
knigata v proekta na “asimetrichnata tsivilizatsiya”
the book of the undertaking of the "asymmetrical culture."
??????????? seems to mean 'civilization' by itself.
??????? I think is actually 'project' when by itself.
??????? appears to be 'book' or 'the book'.
That's my limit of knowledge. Maybe someone else will come along that knows better than I.
on Friday, 7 April 2006 at 01.18
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Thanks, Jennifer. It's a start, at least.
on Tuesday, 16 May 2006 at 16.17
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Well I don't know how you found this but She (Milena Tsvetkova) is a teacher in fact PhD in the biggest University in Bulgaria. I'm studying right now in her class so if you want some kind of info I can give you something interesting. She writes a lot btw.