Re: Tibetan orthography (was: Why my conlangs SUCK!!!)

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>'Cos it's a transliteration, not a transcription. Now, I don't disagree
>that a
>transcription would make more sense for most non-academic purposes, like
>names
>of persons and places in newspaper articles.
I was thinking more in the sense of non-academic purposes. Like you say,
names of persons and places in newspaper articles, etc.

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>That's not nice! But serves 'em right!
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>Is there any officially sanctioned way of writing Tibetan in Latin
>letters,
>analoguous to pinyin?
Well, the reason i do it is because many have taken to getting all
"tibetan on my ass", and think they're so knowledgeable about it because
they've glanced at Tibetan buddhism, or get tattoos in Tibetan.So, it
brings me much pleasure to let them know they really don't have a clue at
all.

I do have a book on Tibetan Thangka painting that has an appendice of the
various terms and how to pronounce them (of course not in IPA style)