21 Sep 2004 11:09:00 +0100
От: ***
До: ***
Тема: Re(2): [ProZ.com Mail] transliteration of bulgarian into roman letters Детайли

Dear Mr ***,

I am grateful to you for your time and trouble. Your advice is very much
appreciated.

As you will no doubt be aware, the accession treaty for Bulgaria (and Romania)
is currently underway and one of the issues is how to handle Bulgarian names
and data in other language versions. The approach I (and my language
colleagues) favour is to follow the practice for Greek and to write text in
Greek (in all language versions) followed by a translation in the target
language. Your explanation reinforces this opinion as regards Bulgarian as you
make it clear that different target languages would prefer different
transliterations and in an EC multilingual context, where for example the names
of institutions and ministries are reproduced in the original name in alll
language versions, such an approach would run into serious problems.

I am feeding your explanations into the discussion and know that they will be
highly appreciated.

It is hoped that the draft treaty can be ready some time next year and, if all
goes well, there will be a need for Bulgarian linguists.

Thank you again,

Best wishes,

***