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What is the most appropriate way to indicate a long vowel in Katakana?
What I was taught ages ago, and what seems to be borne out by the things I've read and pored over through the years, modern katakana uses the 長音符【ちょうおんぷ】 (literally, "long sound mark") or 伸【...
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