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rmrfchik | 1 year ago
What's the reason of having name at all? You can call the person by this name. But if I write you my name in my language, what you (not knowing how to read it) can do? Only "hey, still-don't-know-you, here is your info".
In my foreign passport I have name __transliterated__ to Latin alphabet. Shouldn't this be the case for other places?
int_19h|1 year ago
And, on the other end of the spectrum, you have attempts to spell phonetically following English orthography, which then causes issues because it's tied to a particular dialect of English. E.g. the traditional Korean romanization of the name "Park" has "r" there solely so that "a" would actually correspond to an [a] sound in British English - but then, of course, American English is rhotic, and so it ends up being incorrectly pronounced as [park].
account42|1 year ago
smatija|1 year ago
rmrfchik|1 year ago