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[-] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Transliteration is another thing entirely: it's translating the sounds. "I'll beat you so that the lights in your eyes go out" translated to Japanese is "君の目の光が消えるまで殴ってやる". Transliterated back, it's "Kimi no me no hikari ga kieru made nagutte yaru".

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a bit more complicated: if you're dealing with the sounds it's transcription, if you're converting from writing system into another it's transliteration.

So for example, what you did is transliteration. But if you were to record some Japanese guy speaking and wrote it down (in kanji+kana, Latin, or even IPA), or if you handled how it's actually spoken, it would be transcription.