Title: הודעה
Many thanks to all of you for
discussion of this topic.
It gave some planned results, like
better understanding of syntax of the initials in English.
It also gave some unexpected but very
valuable and interesting results, like the way the initials are read in Herbrew
A related issue is whether to use initials at all. I really
do not like if people write my name with initials, and
I think it is commonplace in Denmark not to use initials.
A quick glance in the local telephone book gives that
most people do not just give initials there (while some do)
while eg
Title: äåãòä
In
Hebrew, groups of initials are normally pronounced.
Jony
-Original Message-From: Wm Se?n Glen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002
10:32 PMTo: Jonathan Rosenne; 'Vladimir Ivanov';
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Initials
he numbers, if I
remember correctly, and thus slightly different from genuine "goroawase").
From: "Jonathan Rosenne" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'Wm Se?n Glen'" [EMAIL PROTECTED],"'Vladimir
Ivanov'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Initial
Rabbi Juuitchan wrote:
This is because it is easy to put vowels between the Hebrew
consonants, correct?
I am thinking arithmetic and Japanese-style goroawase are
easy to do in Hebrew if you treat the consonants as digits
using the ancient system of writing numbers [...]
Congratulations,
, February 25, 2002 4:47 PM
To: '? '; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Initials
Rabbi Juuitchan wrote:
This is because it is easy to put vowels between the Hebrew
consonants, correct?
I am thinking arithmetic and Japanese-style goroawase are
easy to do
Title: äåãòä
Hebrew:
There
are two conventions:
1.
"European". The initial is followed by a period and a space.
2.
Hebrew. A single initial is followed by a Geresh (05F3), a group of initials is
marked with a Gershayim (05F4) before the last letter. By the way, t
To Vladimir: In English, there are
many famous examples a person's initials being more than just one letter for the
first name. Jos for Joseph so as not to be confused with Jonah or James. Wm for
William so as not to be confused with Willard or Wilford. It's just as common to
see them
By this message I
would like to begin a discussion (if it would be found appropriate here and
hasn’t been done earlier) about the rules of writing initials in various
scripts. To make it clearer I’ll try to describe our everyday problems for
Russian names and their transliterations
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