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Re: Mid XIX century Nav
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Nov 22, 01:09 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Nov 22, 01:09 EST
Herbert, you wrote: "If linguistics were a science, one could at least expect that transliteration is an injective and surjective mapping from one alphabet into another and thus an invertible function. "Krusenstern" is a German name. It's a miracle how the back-transliteration of its transliteration into cyrillic became "Kruzenshtern". " Yeah, it's fairly silly, but I went with the spelling chosen on the NYPL web site. There are some unusual transliterations that happen when going from western languages to Russian. For example, Hercules becomes Gerkules (hard "g" as in "get"), Hitler becomes Gitler, hypnosis becomes gipnoz (again, hard "g"). -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
