SlurpingPus

Verbal is Keyser Söze.

“I haven't seen thing happen during my lifetime, therefore thing doesn't happen.”

equating respect for language with usage of the letter and vague guilt-tripping of people who don't use it is elitist

Indeed, anyone using ‘q’ is better than others.

Oh wait, could you please check real quick if ‘ё’, a letter of the alphabet taught in school, maps unambiguously to a specific sound?

the modified letter was proposed but never made generally mandatory

Well maybe it was proposed because ‘ё’ denotes a very particular sound? Which, notably, Western languages can never quite approximate with their feeble ‘yo’ attempts, though Nordic languages do have a vaguely similar ‘ø’ or somesuch.

The name Егор doesn't follow it, but моего and сегодня do. Why?

Well, perhaps because the letters are in a different position? Why is /ˈlɔɹəns/ of Arabia not pronounced akin to /ˈsɛsəl/ B. Demille?

Sure, because everyone born later than those decades has seen those films.

I'd say spoilers dude, but this is all sorta common knowledge around '2001' the film. Afaik the novel also has some stuff about missiles and whatever, in the end phase. I should probably get through it someday, looks like it's quite short even.

Ehh, as much as I'm apathetic toward Nolan, 'Interstellar' has only some vague plot points in common with '2001', which don't even develop the same way. And the meat on the bones is quite different.

After getting through a bunch of art pieces, one must accept that they will encounter works that repeat others in some aspects, like jazz tunes do.

In no way am I elitist about it. I'm just opposed to the language moving away from being phonemic, and am rather alarmist about that prospect, even though I know full well that the pronunciation will drift away while the spelling stays conservative.

‘его’ is at least a typical consistent rule, mapping to the pronunciation ‘ево’ in the same places in various words, just like ‘eau’ in French. But the replacement of ‘ё’ with ‘е’ is just egregious violation of a letter that has its own sound, without any reason for that.

Well, it doesn't matter what I write, does it? Why would I care then how it works?

Sure, Ḿäřṭṯı, sure.

For better or worse, I've been reading almost exclusively in English for years, but also listening to English audiobooks wherein I learned a lot of new things about words that I've seen before. That's precisely why I've become more entrenched in my belief that ‘ё’ shouldn't be optional. And use it myself always.

Everyone seemingly missed that you linked a different ‘Solaris’.