[KS] dropping McCune-Reischauer for 20th/21st c. personal names

Frank Hoffmann hoffmann at fas.harvard.edu
Thu Dec 13 10:56:40 EST 2001


Michael Robinson wrote:
>I always thought that we used writers, artists, and other's ideosyncratic
>transcriptions if they are already published as so, or at least if we can
>find such a reference.  (...)


(1) I have not heard about such agreement. Guess it has been handled 
by everyone very differently.
(2) My proposal is to go ahead with such "rule" (resp. non-rule) for 
the names of every VSP, not just artists and writers.

Frank

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