Timeline for How do I write sounds that don't exist in Japanese?
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| Feb 18, 2019 at 16:00 | history | edited | Earthliŋ♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2019 at 21:58 | history | edited | Earthliŋ♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2018 at 22:37 | comment | added | Earthliŋ♦ | I only said it is good to be aware of other spellings, not to necessarily follow their lead. Indeed, such spellings could have been chosen by people completely ignorant of the actual pronunciation. | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 22:29 | comment | added | ericfromabeno | here's the problem with that, though: you don't know whether those famous people chose that spelling, or if it was forced on them by Japanese people, for example bloggers or reporters, who don't understand that Ä and Ö do not actually sound like A and O. Emmi is specifically trying to avoid a romaji or katakana spelling that would result in a bad association: "vaino" - "persecution". Maybe halfsize "ne" is "wrong", but it would get a Japanese person to stop and really think about the pronunciation. Katakana is all about loanwords/emphasis in modern Japanese, so... | |
| Apr 18, 2018 at 22:16 | history | edited | Earthliŋ♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 18, 2018 at 20:57 | history | answered | Earthliŋ♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |