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Message:: [QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 3274187, member: 96635"]I find that if you convert Greek letters to Latin letters the the words should be written in Latin style as well. If I am going to use the Greek alphabet for this purpose, 80% can not read it, especially if I don't use capital letters. Also, you get an endless discussion about writing style. Ph and Ch for example are all Latin style. Did you know it is originally, Filippos II? And not Philip II. Yet I have never seen someone on this forum write "Filippos II tetradrachm" using the Greek style. Same with a name Christus, it is originally: Xristos. Yet nobody in the Latin world uses that name, even worse nobody can pronounce that. People with Latin alphabet will pronounce it like X ristos, a X in Greek is pronounced as a G and not as a X like in the Latin alphabet. Then actually a city like Chalkis should be written like Xalkis, yet I have never seen anyone here write it using that Greek style. Then why do people crossuse the Greek style K with Latin style C? Why do people use for the most part Latin style city names but sometimes Greek? In other words this discussion can go on for a long time. So I have chosen the Latin style because I am writing the cities in the Latin alphabet and it is more commonly used on this forum. By the way I am Greek I understand the Greek language no need for language explanations.[/QUOTE]