Monday, May 31, 2010
Ukrainian Place Names
I always get worried about Ukrainian place names. Some of those places were in Polish territory and had Polish spellings. I never know whether to keep the Polish letters, or transliterate them phonetically into English, or find the Ukrainian name in Wikipedia as it is transcribed into English.
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I think we should compose a list of ishoos of this kind, which can be unilaterally decided by the translator but for which a publisher of this sort ought really to have a ready policy.
A list of ishews is one thing. A list of all possible place names would a most olbrzymious project. If Wikipedia gives an English rendering of a Ukrainian village, I go with it, but it is very difficult to find this information about small places.
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