Re: Transcription/transliteration
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 14, 2001, 11:00 |
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At 23:29 2001-05-13 -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> (transliterate)
>
> TRANSITIVE VERB :
> Inflected forms: -at*ed, -at*ing, -ates
> To represent (letters or words) in the corresponding characters of another
> alphabet.
>
>It says "corresponding," but nothing about a *perfect* correspondence.
Only because most "translitterations" cheat, giving greater or lesser
concessions to transcription.
/BP 8^)>
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