Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards latin- >arabic

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Jul 04 2004 - 01:51:37 CDT

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    Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:

    >> But if the reader merely removes the diacriticals,
    >
    > He means, I think, that the reader ignores them, not knowing what they
    > mean.

    Same thing. If the reader ignores the diacritic, he is reading one
    letter as another, and so he is not really using the transliteration
    scheme, but an ad-hoc transcription scheme based on it.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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