[Heb-NACO] Romanization Question

[Kuperman, Aaron]

Of course it’s not solved.  Romanization is inherently unwise.  A user will be looking for the original script.  How often have any of use ever looked up an English word based on how it is written with Hebrew characters?

Aaron Kuperman, LC Law Cataloging Section.
This is not an official communication from my employer


From: Heb-naco [mailto:heb-naco-bounces+akup=loc.gov at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Neil Manel Frau-Cortes
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 3:32 PM
To: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel
Subject: Re: [Heb-NACO] Romanization Question

… 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
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone (301) 405-9337
nfrau at umd.edu

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.

Stanford University Libraries

Stanford, CA 94305-6004

ph: 650-725-9953<tel:650-725-9953>

fax: 650-725-1120<tel:650-725-1120>

e-mail: lerner at stanford.edu<mailto:lerner at stanford.edu>

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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

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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
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