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Anglicized pronunciations

Hello. I have taken the liberty of reverting several of your edits to various articles relating to Japanese words, into which you had inserted "anglicized pronunciations". While there is nothing wrong with that per se, I find the notability or accuracy of your anglicizations somewhat questionable. While the correct Japanese pronunciation of a Japanese word can be easily determined from the phonological rules of the language, especially given its shallow orthography (かな, anyway), a corresponding "standard" anglicization is never something that can be deduced simply by looking at the spelling. For one thing, most English speakers cannot read かな, and so any such anglicized pronunciations would be dependent on what ローマ字表示法 was used in the transcription of the word into the form in which the English speaker had first read it. For another, as English orthography is deep, most English speakers do not consciously hold a ruleset for the decipherment of English spelling, which leads to significant divergence, especially (obviously) when they attempt to decipher words which are recent borrowings or generally from a linguistic source not common in the English lexicon (such as Japanese). Indeed, an anglicized pronunciation of a non-English word needs to be shown to have a wide acceptance among the English-speaking population, or at least that subset of the English-speaking population who use the word in question, before it can be considered in any way "standard" (and thus encyclopedic). Since you provided no sources for your anglicizations, I thought it best to remove them. I hope you understand. — flamingspinach | (talk) 06:02, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Edji

I am almost positive this is in no way part of Hepburn romanization, even though it probably should be. I am reverting all of your edits that changed "ejji" to "edji" (or whatever word it was on the pages).—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 00:06, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I am going to bring up a discussion on WT:MOS-JA on this, as it may be helpful but it is simply not part of the Hepburn romanization.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 00:29, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

A Hanamaru Grammar

Though it may or may not be true that the "A" is unnecessary in Hanamaru Kindergarten's episode title list, it is the official English translation.AppuruPan d talk b 07:43, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Where can I see the official English translation? --Unnecessary stuff (talk) 21:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Crunchyroll licenses Hanamaru outside Japan, and they translate the episodes. You can check the episode names here.AppuruPan d talk b 21:50, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk page editing

It is the general practice to leave the section title in the edit summary when you add to a conversation on a talk page. This way, the conversation you contributed to is linked to in the article history.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 07:36, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

June 2010

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles), you may be blocked from editing. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 05:45, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Yod-coalescence

The English example at voiceless palatal fricative is uncited either way. If you can find a source that talks about it, you can more convincingly prove your point. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi]} 19:45, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Wi & We

It does not make any sense to have i and e on the same line as wa and wo. I don't have to source the fact that these are the wi and we kana.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 19:17, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

And rather than deal with you on 3 pages, I will begin a discussion at WT:MOS-JA for how to deal with these two kana.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 19:23, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Is there a reason you completely blank the edit summary when you comment in a section on talk pages? You know that it is really disorienting to have you respond but not have a link to the section in which you are responding. Just leave the "/* [foobar] */" in your edit summaries in the future. I am pretty sure it is part of common talk page etiquette to do so.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 20:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

January 2011

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Before saving your changes to an article, please provide an edit summary for your edits. Doing so helps everyone understand the intention of your edit (and prevents legitimate edits from being mistaken for vandalism). It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you.  Chzz  ►  20:48, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Please leave edit summaries. It is difficult to tell what you changed when you blank them.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 04:24, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Wu

This document uses "ウゥ" as wu. And in practice, I have seen "ウー" as "wu" such as the approximation of the Chinese name Wu (all over Google and at the Japanese Wikipedia article for the Wu-Tang Clan), the works of Eiji Tsuburaya (see Bio Planet WoO's Japanese language page), and where the word "woman" has been written in katakana (ウーマン). So how should this be dealt with?—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 05:44, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Chinese wu is not [wu] but [u]. And ウー merely indicates long u (ū), not wu. Anyway, since wu doesn't appear on American and British standards, it should not be given a beige shading. --Unnecessary stuff (talk) 05:52, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

But ウー is used to approximate the [wu] sound anyway, as well as representing [uː].—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 06:04, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Extended Hepburn System

Hello Unnecessary stuff san. This is KMNS Tsw, a Japanese old boy. The latest explanation of EHS is dated December the 10th, 2010. You can read it at halcat.com

In it is mentioned [國土地理院] and [文化廳の外國人のためのハンドブックの方式].

Please select the English version of the latter and go to the chapter 4. It is a separate PDF file. And look at page 37 (numero 165), and you should be surprised how so called long vowels are treated.

The article of Romanization says "Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, for representing the spoken word." But there were no known method of transliteration system, and I have believed EHS is the first one. But I was wrong. 朝河貫一博士 tried one in his 入來文書 the Documents of Iriki (Yale University, 1929).

If you are interested in it, my report is at the end of [「頂門の一針」に書いたこと（六）]. Kmns tsw (talk) 11:21, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

（ & ）

Could you try not get rid of every ideographic parentheses when you edit Hepburn romanization?—Ryulong (竜龙) 23:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

There's no reason to use those fullwidth parentheses.

1. Fullwidth (ASCII) characters only exist for vertical writing. When writing vertically, halfwidth "abc123?!" gets rotated 90 degrees but fullwidth "ａｂｃ１２３？！" does not. But parentheses are rotated 90 degrees regardless of their width, and we can even say those fullwidth parentheses are duplicates. It is better to use ASCII-compatible characters when possible. (Also, since we are writing horizontally, this vertical writing issue doesn't really matter.)
2. A single fullwidth character takes 3 bytes in UTF-8, but an ASCII character takes only 1 byte.
3. You said "full width parentheses to 'encode' properly in the nihongo template," but this has nothing to do with encoding. Rather, fullwidth characters can result in mojibake, but ASCII characters do not.

--Unnecessary stuff (talk) 06:02, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Yurei moji

Your Yurei moji article is awesome, mind if I move it over to Yurei moji? Jpatokal (talk) 04:27, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

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