Ben Poplawski jazdy:
> With the velars, it's [-i:ta] and [-i:da] -- long vowels.
No, I'm more than sure they are short.
> Hmm. I learned those forms as the -te forms. The plain past -ta isn't used
> much in my experience, especially by gaijin. ;)
I learnt some Japanese mostly for reading technical texts, so my knowledge
was rather passive. But in that style plain verb forms are abundant. Surely
in oral language a gaijin should use other forms.
> you
> didn't point out the -su > -shite form.
From the viewpoint of diachronic phonology it is vanilla plain clear.
Saw kal,
-- Yitzik