transliterate
The transliteration into Thai and then into English is often confusing.
When we quote from a source document, we use transliteration.
I can’t tell how it’s pronounced, given the English spelling transliteration.

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Examples of transliteration

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Later he might gradually appreciate its implications and change the transliteration into a free translation or a semantic transliteration.
Both names are semantic transliterations, but at different levels, and the outcome has been the victory of a graceful translation over a vulgar one.
The reader should overlook minor errors of incorrect transliteration and mistranslation, which do not detract from the valuable contribution of this richly documented volume.
What a pity, however, that neither the glossary nor the main text follows any recognizable system of transliteration.
The book could benefit from extensive editing, as there are a number of inaccurate translations and transliterations, as well as contradictory information.
The book's transliteration is both bizarre and inconsistent.
The transformations provide new sites for articulation that can be explained with reference to the notion of cultural overlay - a transliteration of different cultures.
Take 'hysteria', for example: its transliteration xiesidili is used as an adjective, while its semantic transliteration yibing is a noun.
The word jiho can be considered a model of semantic transliteration.
However, the transliteration was performed rather carelessly, resulting in a mistake.
The transliteration used in this paper is close to the phonetic transcription.
The transliterations and translations set off in brackets are my own.
The great number of typographical errors, inconsistencies of transliteration, and duplication of paragraphs are distracting.
Unfortunately, the tradition of semantic transliteration was from time to time interfered with, and could not be consistently sustained.
The general reader may find the transliteration system used in this book a little irksome.
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