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M8asonmiller t1_j9dnr2g wrote

A lot of languages have "romanization" schemes- ways to write the language using Roman or English letters. Chinese uses Pinyin, Japanese uses Hepburn, Arabic uses a collection of formal and informal ones, and so on. These tend to be somewhat systematized so there's a degree of standardization.

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krisalyssa t1_j9dwh6w wrote

That was something that annoyed me in the pilot episode of The West Wing. One of the characters is loudly complaining that the New York Times crossword puzzle misspelled the name of the Libyan leader at the time, Muammar Gaddafi. Unless you’re writing it in Arabic script, there is no one right spelling.

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