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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On September 05 2015 13:46 KazeHydra wrote: Are you one of the people who use google translate subs to watch anime? Nope. In this instance, I'm going by the OP titles for the characters. Though, technically, it should probably be Sōma. Best would be 創真. The only place I've seen it as Shokugeki no Souma is MyAnimeList; everywhere else I see it as Soma. | ||
Souma
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
TL;DR: America enforces dumb Hepburn system. There are tons of romanization systems however. There is no 'correct,' there is only 'Hepburn is poop and stop bastardizing my name.' | ||
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
On September 05 2015 14:30 Souma wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese TL;DR: America enforces dumb Hepburn system. There are tons of romanization systems however. There is no 'correct,' there is only 'Hepburn is poop and stop bastardizing my name.' Even in Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki (from your link) I'm not seeing a shift to an "ou" from the ō. But, a Japanese friend of mine tells me that it doesn't matter, any romanization system is wrong. (Then again, she lives in Okinawa. And complains that the romanization of her family name is always wrong when she's dealing with English speaking institutions. And as Americans prove, being a native speaker doesn't always confer academic understanding of one's own primary language.) Not unlike my Greek friend, that will curse you if you refer to it as Istanbul. This is why it's best to use 創真. But either way, it was a good episode. And that's the important thing. | ||
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Souma
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
And JSL is what utilizes the double vowels. As I see it, completely removing a character just to make things easier for whities is a dumb way to go about things. It makes it harder for people to distinguish certain readings (oo from ou; how does someone know if it's supposed to be 'Souma' or 'Sooma' without looking at the kanji (let alone actually knowing the kanji)?). It also sucks when you're trying to learn how to type the language and people don't know how to actually spell out the character properly (why in the world would you use "o" instead of "wo"? JSL does this too which is dumb; Nihon-shiki got it right there). None of the systems are completely consistent which sucks. I use what I call the SoUma Romanization System and don't chop off letters just for the heck of it. The furigana of 創真 is そうま. Which means it's Souma. ze endo. | ||
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Sentenal
United States12398 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
In other news, am I the only one in this thread watching Aoharu x Machinegun? Or Classroom Crisis? And it's Saturday morning, where's Gate? | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
Gate got delayed by a day. | ||
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Souma
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
On September 05 2015 15:11 Sentenal wrote: ou is just ō, but with actual english alphabet characters, rather than special long and short vowel characters. IDK why this is even a discussion lol oo is also ō which is lame. Spelling it out ftw. | ||
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plasmidghost
Belgium16168 Posts
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Spazer
Canada8033 Posts
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IceHism
United States1903 Posts
On September 05 2015 15:11 felisconcolori wrote: Long vowels versus multiple letters versus spoken versus written versus... In other news, am I the only one in this thread watching Aoharu x Machinegun? Or Classroom Crisis? And it's Saturday morning, where's Gate? I'm catching up with classroom crisis right now. since i paused it for a while after episode 5 | ||
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
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Unleashing
Denmark14978 Posts
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
 Free the u, burn down everything that uses Hepburn. But then again I see emnjay on irc writing "NANE?" and just doubt it makes a difference at all. But hepburn is indeed stupid. Why would anyone even bother with trying to find that stupid accent on their keyboard... On September 05 2015 14:55 Souma wrote: [...]It makes it harder for people to distinguish certain readings (oo from ou; how does someone know if it's supposed to be 'Souma' or 'Sooma' without looking at the kanji (let alone actually knowing the kanji)?). [...] Or Soma for this matter since no accent in the title (at least HS versions iirc) so it could be all three of Souma/Sooma/Soma  | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
nsfw + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/VHIX9Ty.jpg) | ||
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KazeHydra
Japan2788 Posts
On August 17 2015 18:09 KazeHydra wrote: + Show Spoiler [Charlotte] + Well it's been heavily implied that time travel plays a role in the plot so she probably wouldn't die, even if she died. | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + That elf has some unspoken of mental trauma doesn't she. | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
On September 06 2015 02:26 Slaughter wrote: GATE 10 + Show Spoiler + That elf has some unspoken of mental trauma doesn't she. Not that I've seen the episode yet, still waiting for Emnjay but, + Show Spoiler + When she was rescued you could see her being pushed down into that well by her father. She keeps on saying "Dad" inbetween and there was that scene when they first arrived at the refugee camp when chibi-soldier asked Itami why the Elf keeps asking for 2 sets of clothing. Itami answered with "Maybe she has an imaginary boyfriend?" because he doesn't know about the flashback and her saying "Dad" is supposed to be inaudible for everyone else. So yeah. | ||
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
On September 06 2015 02:31 Toadesstern wrote: Not that I've seen the episode yet, still waiting for Emnjay but, + Show Spoiler + When she was rescued you could see her being pushed down into that well by her father. She keeps on saying "Dad" inbetween and there was that scene when they first arrived at the refugee camp when chibi-soldier asked Itami why the Elf keeps asking for 2 sets of clothing. Itami answered with "Maybe she has an imaginary boyfriend?" because he doesn't know about the flashback and her saying "Dad" is supposed to be inaudible for everyone else. So yeah. The end of this episode makes it more clear I think. | ||
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