Item record: Lost in Translation

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Lost in Translation

Author	Brian Whitaker
Title of item	Lost in Translation
Parent publication	Guardian (UK)
Date of this edition	2002-06-10
Language	English
Permission	Fair use (see notes on copyright)
Posted	2002-6-15 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Newspaper articles and Research notes
URL	bahai-library.com/whitaker_lost_in_translation
Abstract	Transcribing Arabic into the Roman alphabet is fraught with difficulty. And in an age of electronic text, search engines and databases, the problem is only going to get worse.
Notes	This article contains no Bahá'í content, but is included for interest only. Mirrored from guardian.co.uk. See also a discussion of diacritics and transliteration and Marzieh Gail's Guide to Transliteration.
Tags	Arabic language; Translation; Transliteration
Page views	9008 hits since 2002-6-15
Edit quality	high: carefully proofread and edited
Format quality	medium: lightly formatted
Last edited	2013-06-30 01:47 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted between 2003-2012 had various slightly different URLs and sometimes can be found in archive.org with addresses like bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=whitaker_lost_in_translation. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs.

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