From: Andrew Barton (AndrewBarton@compuserve.com)
Date: Thu 13 Jul 2000 - 00:01:42 EEST
> If I can pronouce something in one vernacular language, have it
Err, that's called translation, surely? A very different thing from
When Dante set out to write a great poem in Italian, he didn't
written down in Latin, and have it read elsewhere in a different
one, then that's a common written form by any reasonable duck
test.
totally different spoken languages, such as the different
languages of China, being written with the same ideographs.
have to do anything new to be able to write it down in the Roman
alphabet. But a French speaker wouldn't be able to read the result.
Andrew
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