Talk:Santanu

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[edit] Santanu or Shantanu?

Is the name of the focus of this article Santanu or Shantanu? If it's actually Shantanu, the page should be moved. jareha 20:32, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

"Shantanu" is the better transcription. It seems that some people on Wikipedia are consistently favoring transcriptions in which "sh" and "s" are merged. This is contrary to Sanskrit pronunciation and writing. I favor spellings like "Shantanua", "Dasharatha", "Kaushalya", "Shiva", "Krishna" etc. which distinguish between "s", on the one hand, and the two "sh" letters, on the other. This is still imperfect as the "sh" will stand for two sounds and letters that are distinuguished in Sanskrit, but it's still better than having three letters and sounds merged into a single "s". I suspect that those who favor using only "s" and not "sh" are native speakers of Indian languages in which all three sounds/letters are merged. Interlingua ^{talk email} 23:42, 18 November 2006 (UTC)