[Sca-cooks] globetrotting
Randy Goldberg MD
goldberg at bestweb.net
Thu May 23 04:13:08 PDT 2002
> > Of course, since Greek doesn't have
> > English's tendency to homophonous forms (does ANY other language?),
phonetic
> > transliteration is usually orthographic.
> >
> > Avraham
>
> Avraham.......have you picked up Christos' ability to slip into Greek when
> you talk about stuff......cause I think you have :D
That's not Greek, that's linguistics. <grin>
homophonous = sound alike
phonetic = relating to sound
transliteration = writing the way a word sounds, rather than the "proper
spelling"
orthographic = spelled (technically, "written") correctly
Avraham
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