> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Mark Davis
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 8:36 AM
> Note: I am still speaking of transliterations (e.g.
> transformations that
> 'roundtrip'), not transcriptions (which try to match the
> pronunciation more
> precisely, and may lose information).
OK, just because I do so love monkey wrenches, please explain what I found in my atlas:
Vietnamese English
------>
HaÌ TiÌnh Ha Tinh
In which we have a trancription/transliteration/taxonomy problem between Latin and Latin. Since this does not remotely roundtrip (Ha, for instance, has 18 Vietnamese equivalents), and no attempt is made to match pronunciation, how do we refer to it?
/|/|ike
Trivia question: Which Vietnamese city does my atlas spell correctly, much to the chagrin of the Vietnamese?
