[Heb-NACO] Romanization Question

Jasmin Shinohara jshino at pobox.upenn.edu
Mon Nov 9 15:57:46 EST 2015


So psefas it is.  Sorry Yossi... :-)

Thanks, Jasmin

On 11/9/2015 3:53 PM, Barry Walfish wrote:
> I thought we agreed that since the ps represents one letter in Greek 
> (psi), pesefas makes no sense, and it should be treated like psikhologyah.
>
> Barry
>
> Barry Dov Walfish, Ph.D.
> Judaica Specialist
> University of Toronto Libraries
> Toronto, ON M5S 1A5
> Canada
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> *From:* Heb-naco 
> [heb-naco-bounces+barry.walfish=utoronto.ca at lists.osu.edu] on behalf 
> of Neil Manel Frau-Cortes [nfrau at umd.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, November 09, 2015 3:31 PM
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> … which kind of shows that the issue is not very well solved, IMHO.
>
> **
>
> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D.*
>
> Judaica, Hebraica and Metadata Cataloger
>
> McKeldin Library
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> *From:*Heb-naco [mailto:heb-naco-bounces at lists.osu.edu] *On Behalf Of 
> *Yossi Galron
> *Sent:* Monday, November 09, 2015 3:23 PM
> *To:* Hebrew Name Authority Funnel
> *Subject:* Re: [Heb-NACO] Romanization Question
>
> Heidi,
> I believe our practice was Pesefas and not Psefas.
> Yossi
>
> On Nov 9, 2015 3:21 PM, "Heidi G Lerner" <lerner at stanford.edu 
> <mailto:lerner at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
> Based on the conversation I agree with Yosi.
>
> Unless there is strong disagreement we shall romanize
>
> פסיפס
>
> as "psefas"
>
> Best, Heidi
>
> Heidi G. Lerner
>
> Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica
>
> Metadata Dept.
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> Stanford University Libraries
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> *From:*Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces at lists.osu.edu 
> <mailto:heb-naco-bounces at lists.osu.edu>> on behalf of Yossi Galron 
> <jgalron at gmail.com <mailto:jgalron at gmail.com>>
> *Sent:* Monday, November 9, 2015 12:17 PM
> *To:* Hebrew Name Authority Funnel
> *Subject:* Re: [Heb-NACO] Romanization Question
>
> I wouldn't change our practice.
> Just lazy.
> Yossi
>
> On Nov 9, 2015 3:11 PM, "sshtuhl" <sshtuhl at upenn.edu 
> <mailto:sshtuhl at upenn.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> We had an interesting discussion about the Romanization of 
> foreign-loan words. Can we get to any agreement about how to Romanize 
> the word פסיפס?
> Thanks,
> Smadar
>
> -- 
> Smadar Shtuhl
> Hebraica Library Specialist
> University of Pennsylvania
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