Do we use Grade 1 indicator before freestanding Spanish letters? Nemeth in UEB

[Clara Harris]

<p style="text-align: left;">Hi Cindy,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Interim of Foreign Language 1.6 considers important the use of ELI to distinguish letters from words.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In a Nemeth within UEB transcription I have labels: a, b, c, etc. and coordinates y, x.</p>
Do I use the grade 1 only on the y to distinguish from the Spanish word y. Or do I use it for EVERY standing alone Spanish letter.

TkU,

Clara

Attachments:

You must be logged in to view attached files.

[Patrick Janson]

Hi Clara,

Sorry for the delay, but I wanted to communicate with some committee members as a Foreign Language guidebook has yet to be published to handle such matters. Our consensus is:

Since the book seems to be all in Spanish, the same rules apply to English and single letters: any letter such as "y" that can be misread as a word in Spanish should have a grade one indicator. So, yes on "y" and no on "x".

Hope that helps!

Patrick

[Clara Harris]

Hi Patrick, greetings from Louisville,

Thank you for getting back to me.

It definitely helps to know that we ALL are on the same page.

Best,

Clara

[Author]

Posts