Talk:Potemkin village

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That judges bit still needs work to "flow" properly. Too many big words for the sake of big words and it breaks the paragraphs readability.

The sentence on the "Big Fish" means little without giving us some details about the story.

I've studied the 'judges bit', think I have understood it now, and have made it a bit clearer, hoping I didn't introduce any errors!Geke 08:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

"Modern historians consider this scenario of self-serving exaggeration." is a sentence fragment; what do they consider? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.43.114.67 (talk) 17:06, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article is very weak

More like typical anti-Russian rhetoric.

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 21:47, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible false information or misunderstanding.

"Curiously, the term "Potemkin village" is almost never spelled "Potëmkin village," using the Russian letter called "Yo," nor is it ever pronounced "Potyomkin."" I have never heard it NOT being pronounced "Potyomkin." I speak fluent Russian and I lived there most of my life. Either this is some misunderstanding regarding the implied pronunciation by the spelling "Potyomkin" or the author of this section is wrong.
In Church Slavonic, it would be pronounced "Potyemkin" because the language has no letter "Yo", but in modern Russian, saying this will sound odd and outlandish. Curiously, Potemkin (the founder of these villages) was the first person to officially use the letter Yo in a surname—his surname. He did this shortly after the letter gained an official place in the Russian alphabet, so it is ironic that the author insists that the letter is not used in this word even though the person who this word came from was one of the most active advocates of implementing this letter.
If I am not corrected I will revise the article. —zhukant (Zhukant 03:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Self-contradiction

Currently the article seems contradictory at points... AnonMoos 14:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)