Sunday, October 17, 1999
Hello Alexander,
Sunday, Sunday, October 17, 1999, you wrote:
Alexander> Hi there!
Alexander> On 16 Oct 99, at 2:14, Steve Lamb wrote
Alexander> about "Re: PGP Check Signature does not wo":
>> > English isnt the most suitable language to use to pronounce/spell
>> > foreign language pronounciation....
Alexander> That's why here we are using "Transliteration" whenever we're
Alexander> sending something in Russian to a receipient who has no
Alexander> Russian fonts available:-) This is a one-to-one translation of
Alexander> Russian letters to the (sequences) of Latin characters. My own
Alexander> full name will then become:
Alexander> (in Volapyuk): Aleksandr Va`c`eslavovic` Kiselev
Alexander> (in proper Translit): Aleksandr Wq^eslawowi^ Kiselew
Now I see the tonguebreaker...
Wouldnt it be easier if you could remove one part in the middle name...
>> Which is why I went for a more phonetic spelling than an English spelling.
>> ah is clearly a short a whereas ae or aye would be the long. I could also
>> just spell it phonetically in Esperanto if it would fit.
>>
>> Vaceslavovitcx. :P
Alexander> Don't know Esperanto, but think you're wrong here:-) the first
Alexander> "a" above should sound similar to German "Ja" (that is, as it's
Alexander> common in many Latin-based languages, should be written as
Alexander> two-dotted "a"). What for the second "a" above, it's pronounced
Alexander> exactly as the English letter "R" is called, that is, "AR":-) So
Alexander> either Esperanto is not so fonetic you think it is or you haven't
Alexander> got the proper pronunciation:-))
Try Arabic, you can spell almost any sound in it...
I donot speak it but its an extreemly flexible way to make any sound
even if you still cannot read the result (g) and I remember for my
workpermit I needed about 10 minutes before my Dutch name was properly
translated so it sounded the same...
Alexander> SY, Alex
Alexander> (St.Petersburg, Russia)
Best regards,
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