Re: Sidestepping Spelling Reform
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 29, 2004, 20:50 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
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> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Joe wrote:
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> > >_doing_ spelling reform: Replace the Romanji Aplhabet
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> I always thought the word was romaji. But Romanji makes more sense...
> (Either way it wouldn't've helped me link the name with 'roman' till I was
> explicitly told...) Am I utterly wrong here?
That's correct. Technically, it's roomaji, but long vowels are often
ignored in borrowing Japanese words. Derived from Rooma (Rome) + Ji
(character, letter). I've also heard Eiji (Ei = English), but that's
rather non-standard.
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