Re: Transliteration

On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 11:15:50PM -0500, Albert Lunde wrote:

> >Francois Yergeau wrote:
> >> Target: the characters of the target script will be used differently
> >> according to the target language.  For instance, a certain Japanese phrase
> >> will be transliterated to French as "ô negaï chima" and to English as "o
> >> negai shima".

> Andrea Vine wrote:
> >I concur with Francois' sentiment, however, that would be "onegai shimasu" or
> >"onegai simasu" in English, depending on the transliteration method.

Albert Lunde wrote:
> The phrase "onegai shimasu" is _still_ in the Japanese Language _not_ in
> the English language, it has just been written in a roman script.

That's right, but it is meant to be read from people who have experience
with the English language. Although transliteration is not a transcription,
rules were choosen intuitive to be similar to the rules of some language.
That is why I think both languages are important. The second isn't really a
language, but is ther a better word to name it?

Bye
Guentcho Skordev
/or Ghencho or Gentscho/