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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
Even after reading Professor Kittredge's essay, we cannot understand how Gray could catch the metrical lilt of the Old Norse with only a Latin version to transliterate the parallel Icelandic.
From The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby
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
The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his son Saad Alkabli, who transliterates his surname differently.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
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
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
Persian text transliterates this author’s name as “Draybár” and titles his work The Progress of Peoples.
From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá
The city has asked translators to furnish names that are transliterated, a process that more closely approximates English pronunciations.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
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
Team officials also asked them to take those transliterated names.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2022
Then again, that style was forged in private with no sense of an audience, as she transliterated, for example, R.E.M.’s cryptic mumbles into her own gender-flipped riddles.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2021
The Islamic statement of faith, in transliterated Arabic: there is no God but God.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
We transcribed every handwritten name on the lists into a database, transliterating them from Arabic to English.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
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
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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