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this one is quite tough i will have to practice this one a bit more! ^^
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@GameShowGuy：granted, yes, but we're using an imperfect system of describing a purer language - I'd have it be done with greater fidelity to the original. Part of the charm of learning Japanese, though, is in it's ambiguity: it seems to follow the same inscrutability that some Japanese people have!
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@chillchillpill - Why does English have to, too, and two all written differently but pronounced the same? Why does "ough" have five different pronunciations, as in bough, cough, dough, rough, and through? It seems that regarding phonetic purity, Japanese commits far fewer sins than English does.
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@japaneseformorons: "oh" for を, (it's more phoenetically correct)"o" for お and "ō" for おう.
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WHY oh WHY oh WHY in the name of the sainted martyrs do they write を as WO? When I started studying Japanese I made the mistake of voicing the "W", and it took ages for me to unlearn it! it doesn't make sense to write it like that! Same as writing らりるれろ as RARIRURERO instead of LALILULELO: it's much more natural! No wonder people hate studying Japanese! GRRRRRRR!!
chillchillpill 1 month ago
@chillchillpill
Yes, writing Japanese using the English alphabet is problematic to say the least. But to answer your question it's to differentiate を from お.
japaneseformorons 1 month ago
@japaneseformorons: Yes, BUT! Isn't the whole idea of romanisation so that Japanese is accessible to non-Kanji/kana-familiar people being able to pronounce it accurately? There's a park in Tokyo that my oafish brother delighted in calling "Yama-SHITTER!" because of the way it was spelt: if it was me, I'd write it as "Yamash'ta", not Yamashita!
chillchillpill 1 month ago
@chillchillpill
OK, so how would you have them write を？
japaneseformorons 1 month ago