[Sca-cooks] thanks from Phillipa

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

> > Yes, Mishala, Squid is treif. And you are not spelling it wrong,
as......
> > senior moment,,,,,, forgive me. Who said, 'transliteration can be
spelled
> > however...' it is a transliterated word.
>
> That was I.  That's the sort of think you pick up in news biz,
particularly in
> the past couple decades with so much news from the Middle East where they
don't
> seem to care about standardized Roman Alphabet spelling.  At least the
Chinese
> made some effort... sigh.

Actually, the Israelis do have an "official" transliteration code, because
they communicate in English so much. However, there is also the
"linguistic/phonemic" transliteration scheme, which is different (kaf and
kuf are, respectively, k and q).

Avraham

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