Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ? Am I right??

--- D Tse <exponent@...> wrote:
> <<
> SuomenkieliMaa, do you know how the names are
> written in Japanese
> characters? This is what I get from JWPce's
> dictionary: I'm familiar
> with
> the characters for Tokyo and Japan, but Suginami is
> unfamiliar to me.
>
> "ú–{ Japan [nihoN\]
> "Œ‹ETokyo [to:kjo:]
> ?™•À Suginami [sMginami]
>
> (And are these IPA transcriptions acceptably close
> to the Japanese
> pronuncation?)
> >>
>
> I know I'm not the person to whom your question is
> directed, still, I
> can see the first 2 (nihon and tookyoo) written in
> ShiftJIS, but the
> 3rd one is not visible for me.
>
> Suginami, literally row of cedars is written
> ™•À in ShiftJIS I
> believe, though you may want to ask SuomenkeliMaa,
> being one who has
> presumably known the kanji for his place of
> residence having lived
> there for a reasonable amount of time :)
Thanks, D Tse.

Actually <embarrassed look> I never bothered to look
up the meaning of _sugi_ before, as I knew from the
radical for tree that it was some sort of tree!
(Figured it as a pine though..)

You've lived here (in Tokyo) before, though, haven't
you?  Was it near Shinjuku area or elsewhere?

Matt33



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