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The best an English translation can do is to transliterate the Greek letters—“Ototototoi”—or go with something like “Woe is me!” or “Alas!”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
In attempting to devise an alphabetic system with which to transliterate Chinese, Mr. Zhou was continuing an orthographic tradition that went back at least to the 16th century.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2017
Maybe there was too much internal debate on how to best transliterate it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2013
Though most of the world’s languages have no written form, people are beginning to transliterate their mother tongues into the alphabet of a national language.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
In 1901, there had been a reform of the German spelling system, changing "th" into "t" in all words where it does not transliterate the Greek letter theta.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
There’s a word in Japanese that transliterates to “komorebi” and refers to a phenomenon for which there is no single word in English: the quality of light as it filters through foliage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Otherwise, though, from the opener “Bigger,” The Gift transliterates the leonine royal-family drama and “circle of life” worldview of The Lion King into the recent main leitmotif of Beyoncé’s own work.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2019
Sometimes the crew transliterates a dish’s name in a way that requires decoding at the table.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2018
They included “Edano_my_Angel,” “Edano_go_to_bed” and “Edano_nero,” which transliterates a Japanese word meaning “go to sleep.”
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 16, 2011
Meaning, till the Church transliterates its entire set of Roman-script liturgical, ritual and other holy books to Devanagiri, the use of Roman Script will not die.
From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
Associated Press journalists saw some walls cracked or partially collapsed in the empty Aksu country village of Youkakeyamansu, a name transliterated in Mandarin from Uyghur.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
Each one has at its center a simulated label emblazoned with that phrase, but transliterated into Japanese.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
Possibly, with an added complication: Greek words must be transliterated from the Greek alphabet into the English alphabet.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
In Chaucer’s time, spelling was less standard and people often simply transliterated pronunciations onto the page.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2020
Mohan opens his book and starts reciting the transliterated words.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Her nonconformist style tempts critics to place her in categories where she doesn’t belong — she’s no dull neo-formalist, though she takes pleasure transliterating Shakespeare’s sonnets, delights in reworking phrases from Yeats.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2020
“Simply transliterating Mitsuha and Taki’s star-crossed friendship into English, relocating it to the Pacific Northwest, and hoping for the best would be a disaster of its own,” David Ehrlich wrote on the IndieWire website.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2017
Almost certainly, a native Russian speaker wrote the original material, correctly transliterating the Russian “f” as “ph”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2017
Arabic writing does not include most vowels, and he’s transliterating the language in his head.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2016
In transliterating the Indian names I have for the most part followed Dr. Eitel, with such modification as seemed good and in harmony with growing usage.
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