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by stavros 1531 days ago
Certainly, and there isn't a canonical transliteration there either. There is some consistency, but the primary goal was that the words look good in the target language, which isn't a concern for me when I want to type my language in a keyboard that doesn't have Greek letters. For that case, multiple transliterations per letter exist, including some that use numbers (e.g. θέλω = thelo, thelw, 8elv, and any combination of those).
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Oh, I absolutely agree that they should list the original Greek titles. I was just addressing an interesting (to me) linguistic side issue.
Ah, yeah, I agree that the way that Greek words got transliterated is actually very interesting (doubly so when you speak Greek and can see the intent behind it).