Re: bidi scripts and languages

From: John Cowan
Message: 1573
Date: 2003-08-03

Doug Ewell scripsit:

> By contrast, transcription is about transforming ???????????????????? into
> Tschaikowski (for the benefit of German speakers) or Tchaikovsky (for
> English speakers).

Actually, Chykoffskee would do the job better, but the traditional English
transcription is a sort of hybrid.

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on having their Miranda rights read to them, just like perps in American TV
cop shows. When it's explained to them that there are in a different country,
where those rights do not exist, they become outraged. --Neal Stephenson

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