[Sca-cooks] globetrotting

[Daniel Myers]

Quoted from Stefan li Rous - 5/21/02, 11:40 PM -0500:
>Avraham commented:
>> Of course, since Greek doesn't have
>> English's tendency to homophonous forms (does ANY other language?), phonetic
>> transliteration is usually orthographic.
>
>Speaking of translations... Avraham, what did you just say? In smaller
>words please, for us simple folks. sigh.

I think he said that since Greek (unlike English) doesn't have a screwy
spelling system, most Greek words are pronounced like they are spelled.


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