[Tagging] "No abbreviations in names" edge case

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Thu Jun 19 04:19:19 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:37 PM, André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But cultural issues interfere.
> To a Russian speaking person, "street" is nothing but ул. (улица)
>

And that's the same in English.  I wonder if the explanation not to
abbreviate has been properly translated in the wiki for the Russian
community, since it's not like this problem goes away just because it's
using the Cyrillic alphabet instead of the Latin one.
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