Date:  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 22:08:15 GMT

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Bounced Mail



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> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 13:51:10

> From: Gogaku[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gnn.com (Benjamin Barrett)

> Subject: Re: Respelling

>

> >Date:        Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:01:00 EST

> >From:    Electronic Products Magazine <0004276021[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MCIMAIL.COM>

>

> >A colleague points out that long-standing spellings in the English lanuage

> > are being changed, and he is wondering what's up. The examples

> >he gave are :

> >Neanderthal becoming Neandertal so it is pronounced like German

> >and

> >Inca becoming Inka for no apparent reason.

> >

> >Leonard Schiefer            lschiefer[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mcimail.com

> >Chief Copy Editor

> >Electronic Products Magazine

> >Garden City, NY

>

> Date:     Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:48:11 EST

> From: Undetermined origin c/o LISTSERV maintainer

>

> [snip]

> >I will note that something similar happens with transliterations (for

> >example, "Mahomet" has become "Mohammed" or "Muhammed"), with the

> >apparent goal being to get closer to how the word or name is pronounced

> >in the original language/alphabet. It's complicated, of course, by

> >the diversity of pronunciations for a given spelling--both Arabic and

> >English have enough dialects that a standard transliteration from one

> >to the other will always be somewhat arbitrary.

>

> This is what happened with the revision of Chinese names to reflect the

> pinyin spelling system, too (Peking>Beijing, etc). Inca>Inka may be similar

> to the duplicity of Celtic & Keltic (though I doubt the b-ball team will

> ever change their spelling). Toukyou still remains Tokyo, though, Seattle

> still remains Seattle (rather than Sealth), Roma remains Rome, and doubtless

> many others will never change.

>

> yoroshiku

> Benjamin Barrett

>

> Vicki Rosenzweig

> vr%acmcr.uucp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]murphy.com | rosenzweig[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]acm.org

> New York, NY

>