[Sca-cooks] globetrotting

Terry Decker t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Wed May 22 03:47:59 PDT 2002


Because Greek doesn't have words which sound alike but have different
spellings, phonetic Greek copied into another alphabet usually has the
proper spelling.

Bear

>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.
>
>--
>THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra





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