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My phonological English bucket list: item #1 "Buttigieg" (Original Post) Tetrachloride Mar 2023 OP
Exegesis. sprinkleeninow Mar 2023 #1
The problem is requiring obeisance to orthography and transliteration. Igel Mar 2023 #2
Slavic and like Hungarian, mb Polish, the accent is on the syllable not expected. sprinkleeninow Mar 2023 #3

Igel

(37,613 posts)
2. The problem is requiring obeisance to orthography and transliteration.
Tue Mar 14, 2023, 06:54 PM
Mar 2023

Knew a guy whose last name was Drzewiecki. Even he mangled the Polish.

Jevyetsky would do it justice without much confusion. But we obeyed the Polish orthography.

Another last name was Czech--Jedlicka. In Czech, "Yedlichka." But mangled to "jedLICKuh".

sprinkleeninow

(22,473 posts)
3. Slavic and like Hungarian, mb Polish, the accent is on the syllable not expected.
Tue Mar 14, 2023, 09:16 PM
Mar 2023
For example, Kodaly is KOdaly. Pisanki is PIsanki, not PiSANki.

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