Re: Transcription/transliteration
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2001, 20:00 |
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At 09:52 2001-05-14 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>The word for this, BTW, is "frangovlakhika" = "Frankish rubbish".
Most attempts at **transcribing** modern Greek is of course grossly
inadequate -- tho more often "English rubbish" --, but the Erasmian system
is nearly as perfect a rendering of Classical Greek as you can do in
Classical Latin orthography, which unfortunately does **not** mean that it
is adequate for Modern Greek...
/BP 8^)>
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