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Old Apr 4, 2012, 03:17 AM
Cedille Cedille is offline
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This may go into a somwhat philosophical question, as to why we romanize stuff. I for one guess that's because raw characters from a foreign language are just too alien us (for me, it's like looking something like "موسيقى لعبة فيديو"), so we have to render them in a more familiar form. I see why feeling like "weird" matters here, since it may even catch the the essence of romanization. By this argument, we don't need to romanize stuff that was to begin with borrowed from the Roman word. This is just my two cents, though.
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