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minus-squareErika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]hexbear6·4 months agoNo, it is a result of romanization: the dots over the ё are often dropped, and so it was historically considerably more common to romanize ё identically to е, this is also why it's "Gorbachev" and generally not "Gorbachov" or "Gorbachyov". link
minus-squareXavienth@lemmygrad.mlhexbear6·edit-24 months agoAlways bugged the shit out of me that ё is romanized to e in a lot of cases. linkfedilink
minus-squareThoGot@lemm.eehexbear6·4 months agoThing is though that in (at least Russian) people also often drop the dots and write a normal e instead of ë linkfedilink
No, it is a result of romanization: the dots over the ё are often dropped, and so it was historically considerably more common to romanize ё identically to е, this is also why it's "Gorbachev" and generally not "Gorbachov" or "Gorbachyov".
Always bugged the shit out of me that ё is romanized to e in a lot of cases.
Thing is though that in (at least Russian) people also often drop the dots and write a normal e instead of ë
Tell me about it!
Gorbačëv