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Proper formatting of transliterated Sanskrit

I've not changed any of the verses, they are correctly spelt, but I've reformatted by putting hyphens in to show compounding of some of the words, as per standard editing practices for transliterated Sanskrit. opfallon (talk) 11:34, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've tidied up a lot of the formatting in line with the MoS, especially as far as italicizations of the Sanskrit terms is concerned. LeamingtonLemur (talk) 16:52, 13 April 2022 (UTC)LeamingtonLemur[reply]

Thanks. However you've also introduced some American English and have wrongly put some standard yoga terms like asana and vinyasa into double quotation marks. These will need to be removed. You have also applied formatting changes within direct quotations: if someone is quoted as writing "20th" or whatever with non-standard formatting, we keep that formatting. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:13, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK, shouldn't practice/practise then be Britishized if the article is in American English and not British English? LeamingtonLemur (talk) 17:16, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I just wanted to make asana and vinyasa italicised throughout... I didn't mean to put any terms in quotation marks. I also accidentally logged out and made a further edit from a different IP. Sorry for my errors, I'm still learning. LeamingtonLemur (talk) 17:17, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thoughts. Yes, all usage should be BE. All common terms like asana should be in roman type not italics: it ha been in wide use in English for many years, so we write it and pronounce it as an English word, no diacritics, no IAST, no Devanagari script, ie English not Sanskrit. Same goes for asana names. All the best Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:17, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, noted. I suppose we could argue that the more obscure yoga pose names could be italicised, but I'm sure uniformity across the page is best.

Happy to Britishise "practice" as "practise" in the article where it appears as a verb - currently the American English spelling is used throughout. All best LeamingtonLemur (talk) 16:41, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Editors may like to note that usages like "asanas" and "vinyasas" --- formed as English plurals --- indicate that these words have been assimilated into the English language. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:18, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]