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drbuster · 11-29-2009, 02:54 PM

Gadzooks, even the "enlightened" comtemporary Mauser technicians of the 1970's made the same "mistake" as their grand-ancestors in marking the safety area in BULGARIAN! After all the brouhaha on both forums about this issue, I showed this marking to two separate Russian native persons who both proclaimed independently that this word is the SAME in BOTH Russian and Bulgarian! (I hope I don't re-muddy the waters!)

Michael Zeleny · 11-10-2010, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by drbuster

Gadzooks, even the "enlightened" comtemporary Mauser technicians of the 1970's made the same "mistake" as their grand-ancestors in marking the safety area in BULGARIAN! After all the brouhaha on both forums about this issue, I showed this marking to two separate Russian native persons who both proclaimed independently that this word is the SAME in BOTH Russian and Bulgarian! (I hope I don't re-muddy the waters!)

To repeat myself, the exposed logo ОГЪНЪ indicates the safety lever position for FIRE in the Bulgarian spelling; the Russian spelling would be ОГОНЬ. There is no way for a native speaker of Russian or Bulgarian to get confused about this matter. The following Wikipedia pages explain the roles of the hard and soft signs in Cyrillic alphabets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_sign

Edward Tinker · 11-12-2010, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael Zeleny

To repeat myself, the exposed logo ОГЪНЪ indicates the safety lever position for FIRE in the Bulgarian spelling; the Russian spelling would be ОГОНЬ. There is no way for a native speaker of Russian or Bulgarian to get confused about this matter. The following Wikipedia pages explain the roles of the hard and soft signs in Cyrillic alphabets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_sign

Michael, not sure how that applies here? (And I don't think you can 'repeat' yourself, when it is a totally different forum...

)

It is unlikely that they had native speakers at DWM?

And the newer Mauser made, did they consult or did they simply copy the previous mistakes, as Herb said?

Ed

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11-29-2009, 02:54 PM	#1
drbuster User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: San Mateo, California Posts: 1,432 Thanks: 2 Thanked 71 Times in 56 Posts	Gadzooks, even the "enlightened" comtemporary Mauser technicians of the 1970's made the same "mistake" as their grand-ancestors in marking the safety area in BULGARIAN! After all the brouhaha on both forums about this issue, I showed this marking to two separate Russian native persons who both proclaimed independently that this word is the SAME in BOTH Russian and Bulgarian! (I hope I don't re-muddy the waters!)