As an article in the Economist explained, there were reasons for avoiding other, less punctuated versions of the Latin alphabet, such as the one initially floated: Delighted critics pointed out that the rendering of the Kazakh word for carrot in that alphabet would have been saebiz, which looks a bit like a transliteration of the Russian for “f**k off”. 
Wakosoaji wanadai kwamba kutumia neno Kazakh kumaanisha karoti isingekuwa sahihi, kwa sababu inaonekana kufanana na neno la ki-Rusi lenye kumaanisha matusi.