Re: "Yushchenko" transliterations

From: Lukas Pietsch (lukas.pietsch_at_invalid-uni-hamburg.de)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:52:28 +0100

Reinhold (Rey) Aman wrote:

> I haven't listened to German shortwave radio (DW) for a while. How is
> "Juschtschenko" stressed in ze Old Kuntry, Wayne?

On the first syllable, by most newsspeakers. But I can't help feeling it
sounds as if they were making a conscious effort, having been told that
that's the correct way. They sometimes seem to give it a bit more stress
than natural. It somehow goes against the grain of how Russian names
typically get pronounced here. Is this a matter of language differences
between Russian and Ukrainian?

Lukas