Talk:Burmese chronicles

Maha-Radza Weng
is currently reputably sourced as meaning the Burmese royal chronicles. Further, there are plenty of other hits for "Maha-Radza Weng" on Google apart from the EB that treat it as the "Burmese chronicles" or "royal chronicles". No, you don't just get to remove it. If the EB is in error, that's fine, but you need to address the title and confusion with sourcing in the article. Bonus points for giving the original Burmese and modern transcription as well, if you know it. — Llywelyn II   14:13, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok, found some sourcing and there's a separate article on it, so the Burmese can stay there. If Google's romanization is wonky, kindly repair it but don't just leave the Burmese without any transliteration. — Llywelyn II   14:36, 26 March 2016 (UTC)


 * A few points:


 * 1) Please see this discussion  on why it's royal chronicles of Burma/Myanmar.
 * 2) I'd be careful about using Google Translate for Burmese. It's only as good as people who have put in the values. As a native Burmese speaker, I can tell you that Yazawin literally/formally means history of kings (although it's used as shorthand for ancient history in everyday speech.)
 * 3) I'd be very very very careful about using Google's (any other non-academic entity's) transliterations. Because there isn't a transliteration standard in popular use—MLCTS isn't used outside academia—a Burmese word could have multiple Romanized forms, depending on the translator's knowledge of English. (English because most Burmese are Anglicizing the Burmese words. Most lay Burmese, I suspect, don't know or care the difference between Romanization and Anglicization.) Anyway, Google's "Myanmar Rarjawain Kyammyarr" is quite a bad transliteration. Painful. Compare that with the IPA in the article. Hybernator (talk) 03:27, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Lead
As well, the article should lead with the name of the article ("The Burmese chronicles..."). If that's not the most common English name for these books, that's fine, but then the page needs to be moved to address that. — Llywelyn II   14:14, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

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