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Originally Posted by DrMike
Whoa...
I think I might use both options 
Thank you very much for you help.
BTW, is there a significant difference between the two version of Shpil-sher offered to me? |
Yeah. The one you likely dislike for looking "plain" and "not exotic enough" is more "correct." The one with all the complex characters looks really Chinese but isn't Chinese. It would be if I wrote the dog name "Fido" as "Phydeaux." Same sound, different writing, and both are "correct" spellings of a sound but only one is considered "correct" by 90% of the population.
No offense to tipsygypsy of course! I only put "correct" in quotation marks because I don't like calling anything correct when dealing with language since "correct" is only "what most people say is correct."
Neither has any meaning, though. They both are phonetic. The complicated looking ones ostensibly have meaning, but it's like gibberish meaning. Well, except for "Karen," which does mean "pitiful" there.