Re: TRANS: a haiku: retort

Barry Garcia wrote:
> Would the mora count for a word like "Shinbun" be four moras? Since n is
> considered a mora (from what I recall)?
Indeed, the writing system of Japanese would probably be better
described as a "morary" instead of a "syllabry", since one generally has
the same number of morae as kana (with the exception of clusters like
kyu or shu [syu]), while it frequently has more kana than morae.
Shimbun, for instance, is written si-n-hu(voiced)-n, two syllables but
four morae, and four kana.

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