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RE: a little japanese lesson
Posted by: J.T. McDaniel ()
Date: August 17, 2001 11:16PM

<HTML>Wouldn\'t that be Makudonarudo? One could also go out for some chocorateh isu kurimu.

When I was stationed there, the government said that the official Latin spelling should be \"Nippon,\" despite the fact that it was inevitably pronounced Nihon. Hense, Nippon Denso, among others. There was also Nashiyonaru, spelled \"National\" in English, and pronounced \"Panasonic\" most places these days. I also recall that the Emperor\'s name was officially transliterated as \"Hirohito,\" but pronounced \"Hee-rosh-toe.\"

The strangest, though, was sitting in a bar in Yokohama listening to a middle-aged Japanese businessman tell a story from a Zero pilot\'s viewpoint that I\'d already heard a few dozen times from the viewpoint of the truck driver. (Dad) I always thought it would be interesting to get those two together, but I never did.

J.T. McDaniel</HTML>

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a little japanese lesson kurt 08/16/2001 03:34PM
RE: a little japanese lesson walter M 08/16/2001 04:46PM
RE: a little japanese lesson Oliver 08/17/2001 06:26PM
RE: a little japanese lesson Saskia 08/17/2001 07:54PM
RE: a little japanese lesson oliver 08/17/2001 09:50PM
RE: a little japanese lesson J.T. McDaniel 08/17/2001 11:16PM
RE: a little japanese lesson Dave McQueen 08/18/2001 07:32PM
more Japanese kurt 08/26/2001 10:55PM


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