Re: Whatever happened to Aelya?

Tim May wrote:
> a) In Japanese, the, uh, "long vowel mark" (I don't know the Japanese
> name) is only used when writing in Katakana (as standard).  In
> Hiragana, you double the vowel, or use a "i" after "e" or (mostly) "u"
> after "o".  I don't know whether people make this distinction when
> using -.
I've only seen - being used to render the long vowel mark.  Such people
would write, for example, arigatou, but konpyu-ta.  They'd write
arigato- only if the writer in the Japanese used that (and
occassionally, that mark is used in hiragana, even tho its nonstandard)

Incidentally, there are a few words written with _ee_ for long e, like
_oneesan_

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