Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: spopa

From: Cyril Slobin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:18:55 +0300 (MSK)

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Cowan wrote:

> Yes, that's a pathological case. And what do you do with Keats's poem
> _La belle dame sans merci_, where both the title and the critical phrase
> are in French, when you wish to translate it into French?
> Or still worse, the opening dialogue of _War and Peace_?

When translating into Russian a text in some Western language that
contain some russian words, that words are often rendered in latin
alphabet instead of cyrillic.

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Cyril Slobin <[email-masked]>