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Re: Butchered Foreign Names

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 6, 2000, 13:01
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, andrew wrote:

> Most Chomro would be gobsmacked by a name > like Betzwieser - spell it Betswieser or Betswaiser, or leave it alone?
Betsfiser, probably, matching the original ['bEtsviz@R]. Only the Saesoin, with their 56 incomprehensible spelling rules, would say ['bEtsvaIz@R]. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter