Re: TRANS: a haiku: retort

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>In Japanese, haiku are not constructed according to syllable
>count at all, but according to mora count. So everyone who's
>arguing about how many syllables are in a haiku, you're all
>wrong. :-)
>
>Dirk
Correct this if i'm wrong, but:

Would the mora count for a word like "Shinbun" be four moras? Since n is
considered a mora (from what I recall)?


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