Re: Orthography Question
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 11, 1998, 5:57 |
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:29:09 +0100, lucasso <lucasso@...> =
wrote:
>if there are script connections, and word get into that lang by written
>sources it often takes writing of original:
>so in modern polish Shakespeare is written as 'Shakespeare', but there =
are
>also oldest sound writing 'Szekspir' which ignores long-short vowel
>distinctions, and many other (polish have only six vowels, so don't
>distinguish many important for english things)
In Jarrda, the name Shakespeare is translated as "shegspir", which is the
Jarrda word for "Easter egg"!