Teemu: There is to my knowledge no general rule on
how words adapted from other language should be
spelled.
Eric: Omar explained that Serbian is phonetic.
"Chauvinism" seemed a special case that would
resist transliteration because it is based on a
proper name. For example, if you said someone was
a "Pangloss," after the character in _Candide_,
you would expect it to be "Pangloss" in other
languages that use the Latin alphabet. Serbian
probably employs a hybrid alphabet and so
transliterates.
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