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Procyon:
I thought the particle ha was to be written as wa. Maybe the bot can change " wa " into " ha "?
Nanashi:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems we all agree about the weird symbols, so that's one more issue out of the way.
As for katakana ー, I still say BOOKARU > BO-KARU > BOUKARU.
I'm opposed to BOUKARU because there really is no U in there, and opposed to BO-KARU because the roman - does not normally (e.g. in English) indicate lengthening of a vowel like the Japanese ー does. So essentially they're very different symbols despite looking similar.
--- Quote from: Procyon on July 24, 2009, 02:37:55 pm ---I thought the particle ha was to be written as wa. Maybe the bot can change " wa " into " ha "?
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Yeah, like I said, that was a mistake on my part. What we ultimately 'agreed' on was ha, not wa, but somehow I wrote wa in the second post by mistake. Sorry. :-[ About the bot, I'm afraid that's not possible, since it wouldn't be able to distinguish the particle はwa from the particle わwa.
RoninatorMarx:
I see that there. I tried using some online Kanji to romaji translation to convert kanji characters to romaji when I put songs into my MP4 (Because it can't read kanji). Before, 私はアイドル is converted to "watashi wa aidoru" but when I tried it just now, 私はアイドル translated is "watashi ha aidoru."
In case you wanna know what I use, I go to this site for my conversion needs: http://nihongo.j-talk.com/parser/
Laburey:
--- Quote from: Nanashi on July 24, 2009, 03:27:02 pm ---Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems we all agree about the weird symbols, so that's one more issue out of the way.
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I think you're right.
--- Quote from: Nanashi on July 24, 2009, 03:27:02 pm ---As for katakana ー, I still say BOOKARU > BO-KARU > BOUKARU.
I'm opposed to BOUKARU because there really is no U in there, and opposed to BO-KARU because the roman - does not normally (e.g. in English) indicate lengthening of a vowel like the Japanese ー does. So essentially they're very different symbols despite looking similar.
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Using a dash isn't a good idea in general, either, since it's often hard to know exactly which dash it is.
I'm fine with both OU and OO really, as long as the use is consistent.
Procyon:
I prefer OO too. I haven't seen any cases where OU would be better.
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