* Mike Ayers
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| People tend to harbor the belief that words can be moved between
| languages unchanged. In truth, it is the exception, not the rule,
| that this can be done.
Lawrence of Arabia, when writing his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", chose
to transcribe Arabic names inconsistently into Latin characters,
precisely to make this point. The exchange between his publishers and
him on this subject is contained in the preface to the book, and makes
for amusing reading. The inconsistent spelling has been kept to this
day.
--Lars M.
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