Birth Certificate and letters
May 1st 2013, 10:17 pm
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Re: Birth Certificate and letters
Agreed.
And you expected me to be aware of this how? By reading you mind? It wasn't mentioned in your posts. And from what I've read the Latin alphabet was originally 21 characters, several of which varied over the course of time between roughly the 7th to 3rd centuries BC. It wasn't expanded to 23 characters until the 1st century BC.
Regards, JEff
And you expected me to be aware of this how? By reading you mind? It wasn't mentioned in your posts. And from what I've read the Latin alphabet was originally 21 characters, several of which varied over the course of time between roughly the 7th to 3rd centuries BC. It wasn't expanded to 23 characters until the 1st century BC.
Regards, JEff
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May 1st 2013, 10:25 pm
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Re: Birth Certificate and letters
My wife's maiden name, her sister's maiden name, and her parents' surnames are all spelled differently when transliterated into the Roman (or English, to keep kimilseung happy) alphabet. (Their passports are all dual language, the second being English.) So different that one would never recognize them as being the same name, or pronounce them anwhere near the same way, unless one understood the various approaches that are used to transliterate the 40+ consonants and 20+ vowels of her language into our 26 character alphabet. Even though there is supposedly one official transliteration scheme approved by the government.
Hence my feeling that the variations in usage of the Roman alphabet by the various western European languages are so insignificant as to not constitute different alphabets.
Regards, JEff
Hence my feeling that the variations in usage of the Roman alphabet by the various western European languages are so insignificant as to not constitute different alphabets.
Regards, JEff
May 2nd 2013, 12:47 am
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Re: Birth Certificate and letters
Interesting insight there people. So although our daughter is called Chloé and the birth certificate and SS card both said Chloe' we are changing everything to Chloe and will just write Chloé on anything non official and make sure SHE know who she is and how to spell 
