From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T11:16:54+09:00
Subject: Re: language transliteration help..


On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Robert Parker wrote:

> On 7/13/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nothing I know of but it sounds like a good thing to use a hash for.
>
> Maybe not. There is usually no 1 for 1 correspondence between words of
> different languages. It needs context to determine the translated
> meaning.
>
> Bob
>
Not words but phonetics. OP said transliteration.
A dictionary, would be words in language A to words in language B.
Translation would include grammar and context for a larger meaning.