Grammar pedants - help please.

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Cerrertonia 18 Oct 10:49am, 18 Oct 2024 22,118 posts	0 Cerrertonia larkim wrote:how the accepted pronunciation of Latin letters is ignored sometimes when the native language is written down. English 'th' is of course a good example of this - used to represent two clearly different sounds (eg in thin and then) neither of which is anything like the Latin t or h.
LindsD 18 Oct 11:24am, 18 Oct 2024 70,433 posts	0 LindsD In terms of transliteration, there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between sounds in languages which leads to variation: see different spellings of Muhammad. E.g. the 'o' in Moscow is somewhere between an o and an a.
Cerrertonia 18 Oct 11:30am, 18 Oct 2024 22,121 posts	0 Cerrertonia Yes and that's particularly an issue for Chinese. The Chinese consonants now represented by q and x don't have an equivalent in English and the letters d and t represent two different sounds that would both be considered as a t in English.