Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:45:43AM +0900, daid kahl wrote:
> Well, I don't think "n" is really a syllable.  It's a sound, and it's
> the only part of the syllabary in Japanese that doesn't have a vowel.
> I'm not really convinced this is a syllable in reality.

It's certainly a syllable in their syllabaries, and their opinion is
all that counts ... it is *their* language ...

> The proper way to write Tokyo for syllabary would be to-u-kyo-u I

No, they don't have kyo in the syllabaries.  The furigana I have seen
say that is ki-yo, two syllables.

Now I may be full of it, as most of what I learned was 30 years ago,
and I never got beyond reading and writing at a third or fourth grade
level.  I imagine Japanese readers of this are snickering at the crazy
foreigners.

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