From: Seiya Nishizawa <seiya@...>
Date: 2005-06-01T11:22:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] "Tollkit" vs. "Toolkit" (Was: [ANN] Ruby-VTK-0.2.0 was released)

Hi,

Thanks Josef for your brief lecture.

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:

>Sorry for using ISO-2022-JP but it is essential for this message needs
>to contain some Japanese.
>
>At Mon, 30 May 2005 11:42:32 +0900, Seiya Nishizawa wrote:
>  
>
>>Ruby-VTK is a ruby wrapper of VTK (The Visualization Tollkit:
>>    
>>
>As a rule of thumb, two identical vowels mean a long vovel - this is
>pretty much the same in Japanese. One transliteration for おおどり 
>（大通り） therefore is "oodori"[1]. Two identical consonants
>following a vowel indicte a short vowel. One transliteration of the
>word あっぱく （圧迫） therefore is "appaku". HTH.
>
>じゃまた、
>
>Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
>
>[1] It took me some time to find a word that starts with oo (to make
>sure the first "o" is an "お" and then to make usre the second "o" is
>an "お" and not a "う". (Could anybody please check if I got the a/an
>issue right?)
>
>  
>
You are right in meaning of starting with "oo".
But actually it isn't "oodori".
The correct transliteration is "oodoori",
and it incidentally has two "long vovle" ;-).

Seiya