Doritos or Doritosh--as long as they are tasty, bring them on!
You'll need to enlarge it in viewer to see the spellings lined up. Find them in the first word of the respective ingredients columns on the left-hand side of the Doritos wrapper. Because it is a foreign word, the person who transliterated "Doritos" into Hebrew used the samech /s/ instead of the sin /s/, so that there is no question that the last sound is an /s/, and not a shin /sh/. The Arabic transliterator used the sin /s/, and leaves it to the reader to be familiar enough with the word to know that it is not "Doritosh,"
You would get different results if you were to use the Spanish or English pronunciations to transcribe the words. The main difference in American English is the flapping [D] of the last "t," which makes it sound like the first trill of a rolled-r; in Spanish this "t" is often the voiced inter-dental, which can be written in Arabic as ث. The second difference is that the English ends the word in a [z] rather than the spelled "s"; Spanish uses a devoiced /z/ that sounds s-like. Apparently, both Arabic and Hebrew use the /s/.
Thanks as usual to the keyboards at
http://www.muftah-alhuruf.com/
and http://www.mikledet.com/ Enjoy the (Latin alphabet) phonetic option on the latter!
You can find the front side of the wrapper on my Hebrew language blog. Yum!
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Showing posts with label _ Transliterate. Show all posts
Friday, September 7, 2012
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Manual Transliteration Systems I have used
Arabic:: Library of Congress , International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) (scroll to yellow), Foreign Service Institute (page 13 of Smith's 1969 Modern Written Arabic)
YIVO for Yiddish and Hebrew
YIVO for Yiddish and Hebrew
Persian: SDSU Language Acquisition Resource Center LARC transliteration system and Dr. Atefeh Oliai's variations on this
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Russian: IPA
American Sign Language (ASL): SignWriting as used by researchers at the Salk Institute (La Jolla, CA)
Handling special characters
Embedding IPA and non-Latin characters so they display on a screen using Unicode
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