[lit-ideas] Re: Spelling Chauvinism
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:22:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
> 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.
You can legitimately write Serbian in either the Latin
alphabet or the cyrillic. Phonetic transliteration is
used in both. Your name would be spelled: Erik Jost.
O.K.
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