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Her nonconformist style tempts critics to place her in categories where she doesn’t belong — she’s no dull neo-formalist, though she takes pleasure transliterating Shakespeare’s sonnets, delights in reworking phrases from Yeats.

From New York Times Jun. 24, 2020

“Simply transliterating Mitsuha and Taki’s star-crossed friendship into English, relocating it to the Pacific Northwest, and hoping for the best would be a disaster of its own,” David Ehrlich wrote on the IndieWire website.

From The Guardian Oct. 2, 2017

Almost certainly, a native Russian speaker wrote the original material, correctly transliterating the Russian “f” as “ph”.

From The Guardian Jan. 12, 2017

Arabic writing does not include most vowels, and he’s transliterating the language in his head.

From Washington Post May 4, 2016

When transliterating a multi word phrase, the transliteration is done using the Hebrew word ordering of right to left.

From Rashi by Szold, Adele