That's right. I didn't mean to cause any other impression. Neither did
I want to question the existance of content in Cyrillic in general. I only
wanted to point out that the discontentment with the current way Wikipedia
handles this issue ought to be taken seriously.
Arbeo, your proposal was pretty on-the-spot. I think it reflected well the
current situation in Moldova.
You probably don't know the history of the
language well. In fact both
Romanian and Moldovans has been Orthodox
Christians and used Cyrillic
script for several ages.
I knew that the Cyrillic script had been used in Moldova before the Soviet
era. I must admit that the fact that it has been used in Romania as well
is
completely new to me.
A modified version of the Cyrillic script was used in *parts* of present-day
Romania until the 1800s. Transylvania never used this script. Wallachia and
Moldavia, the other two historical regions, converted to Latin script after
this time. So for around 150 years, Romanians have been writing in Latin
script only. Outside of historical documents, the Cyrillic script is never
seen anywhere in Romanian.
By the way, do you know much about the unfree days?
They were not totally
that "unfree".
:) Be more neutral. ;)
Of course I don't know so much about them for I grew up in Western Europe.
What I do know is the way officials (not the people in general, of
course!)
treated us and other tourists during a visit in the Eastern Bloc (I could
tell
some appalling things but they don't belong here). I also remember how
every how each and every letter we sent to friends at other side of the
"Iron Curtain" (or that they sent to us) was opened and read by people
for whom it was not intended. Or how there was a third person in every
phone call.
Or how the secret service stole Christmas or birthday gifts we sent to our
friends.
The situation was pretty bad, I can tell you. I've heard of how Romania was
before 1989, I don't know about Moldova, but from studying history, the
Soviet Union was very unfree, and Moldova was further unfree because it went
through an even more rigorous policy of "de-Romanianisation" and
Russification. Many Russians, and Moldovenists (people that support a
Moldovan ethnicity separate of Romanian) will tell you that "Moldovans
wanted self-determination from Romania, they were never forced by the
'liberating' Soviet Union". Well, that's just propaganda.