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  • From: "Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" <joel AT exc.com>
  • To: VadimCherny AT mail.ru
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Initial "Beged Kefet" consonants always have a...
  • Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:38:01 -0400 (EDT)

>> we should not draw any conclusions from it. (In general,
>> transliterations are terrible guides to language, as I discuss at
>> length in my book, and as is well-known by linguists. If people want,
>> I'll try to post the evidence on-line.)
>
>In general? Any problem with German or Russian names transliterated into
>English?

Yes, oodles of them. Consider the English word "Russia" itself. The
English is bisyllabic, the Russian trisyllabic.

Table 6.2 from my book:

http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman/Excerpts/ITB-p88.pdf

goes through some other examples. (And Vadim, you should know this
--- you have my book.) Going the other way, we find "Garvard" in
Russian for "Harvard" in English. In Hebrew, we find LIN-KO-LEN for
English "Lincoln," even though the second "L" is silent in English.
Etc.

-Joel M. Hoffman
http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman





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