Re: Korean politeness levels ( wasRe: Tonal Languages taken to extremes)

--- Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...>
wrote:
> At 11.24 p.m. 2.10.2001, you wrote:
> >--- laokou <laokou@...> wrote:
> > > ("funiki" in Japanese)
> >
> >Minor thing, but I think you should transliterate
> this
> >as "fun'iki" -- otherwise, it seems like "fu+ni+ki"
> >and not "fu+n+i+ki".
>
> I was taught to transliterate syllabic n as N, thus
> fuNiki (and, say
> koNpyuuta). or is this just a different scheme?
Actually, I am not certain about this!  I just know
that, in Japanese script, there is a difference
between n+i and ni.  Would anyone else be of help on
Tristan's question?

Matt33

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