[Vision2020] Alaska vote count

[Ralph Nielsen]

I think you forgot the "v" sound, Ken. For some odd reason the Polish  
language uses "w" instead of "v". So Murkowski should be pronounced  
Murkovski, like another well known Slavic name, Tchaikovsky. All the  
other Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet use "v," not "w."  
So when you see a Slavic name or word with a "w" in it, it is Polish.
Ralph

Kenneth Marcy kmmos1 at frontier.com

Thu Nov 11 03:43:34 PST 2010

The answer to your question should be no, but on what a court might  
decide I
won't speculate. One does wonder, though, how far one might  
acceptably wander
with alternative spellings. For example, if one writes Murkowsi with the
International Phonetic Alphabet for American English as

mɜːʳcaʊsciː

(highlight, then change font to Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial, or Times  
New Roman
if you can't see the correct symbols)

is that an acceptable spelling? Even though the phonetic spelling may  
conform
exactly to an international pronunciation standard, requiring a  
particular
idiomatic, familial, spelling seems churlishly, and in the case of  
election
return counting, greedily, restrictive.

Aside from Murkowski's name, is a phonetic spelling of a word  
acceptable as an
individual's intent in a legal document, say, a contract, for example?

By the way, http://ipa.typeit.org/ with Flash, is a handy page to  
bookmark.

Ken


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