From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-03-10T10:03:30+09:00
Subject: Re: the name of Matz

On 3/9/07, Andrew Stewart <boss@airbladesoftware.com> wrote:
>
> On 9 Mar 2007, at 15:40, John Joyce wrote:
>
> > Very simple.
> > ma (as in mama)
> > tsu (as in tsunami)
> > mo (as in mold)
> > to   (as in token)
>
> Reminds me of the way George Bernard Shaw illustrated the
> difficulties of English pronunciation:
>
> gh (as in enough)
> o  (as in women)
> ti (as in emotion)
>
> => fish

One thing that Japanese has over English is VERY regular
pronunciation, there are a smallish number of syllables, and a 1-1
correspondence between each character from either hiragana or katakana
with the syllable it represents.

GBS would not have been able to make his point if he were Japanese
instead of English.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/