aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] russification

["Rubchak, Bohdan" <kalush@uic.edu>]

Risking a dispute with a professional Ukrainian linguist, I see the
problem as very simple: lacking the sound "h", Russian has no alternative
but to distort Latin, as it has no alternative but to distort the great
German poet's name in the monstrous "Hjote". Ukrainian possesses, but
ignores, the means to avoid all three distortions (two in the poet's
name), or, more precisely, to approximate the original pronunciation more
closely.

Should the Ukrainian language in Ukraine willfully ignore its own
structure in order to proceed on the road to its Manifest Destiny? Are
there any INTERNAL reasons for this?