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Arekkusu
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12 March 2010 at 6:26pm | IP Logged

IronFist wrote:

True, but if someone says "ha-SHI" or "HA-shi" I still know how to write it in hiragana :)

(doesn't one of those mean "chopsticks" and the other one means something else? I forget...)

Right, and once you've done that, you'll no longer know which one you wrote. Unless you know kanji...
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12 March 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged

Teango wrote:

"Scripts with a good grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence..."

And what about phoneme-to-grapheme correspondence?
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13 March 2010 at 4:33am | IP Logged

Astrophel wrote:

I'm in California and I both say and hear "ionno" quite often. I heard it in the Southern US too. I know it's not common in parts of the Northeast, though, where they tend to over-enunciate rather than slur.

I'd say it's more of an "iunno" sound, but I'm from the South and can't really speak for other parts of the country.
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13 March 2010 at 8:41pm | IP Logged

Arekkusu wrote:

IronFist wrote:

True, but if someone says "ha-SHI" or "HA-shi" I still know how to write it in hiragana :)

(doesn't one of those mean "chopsticks" and the other one means something else? I forget...)

Right, and once you've done that, you'll no longer know which one you wrote. Unless you know kanji...

Sure you can: Context!

"He was eating with hashi" = it's probably chopsticks.
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Message 21 of 21

13 March 2010 at 10:54pm | IP Logged

IronFist wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

IronFist wrote:

True, but if someone says "ha-SHI" or "HA-shi" I still know how to write it in hiragana
:)

(doesn't one of those mean "chopsticks" and the other one means something else? I
forget...)

Right, and once you've done that, you'll no longer know which one you wrote. Unless you
know kanji...

Sure you can: Context!

"He was eating with hashi" = it's probably chopsticks.

In that case, you could also write ashi, hahi, hyashi, etc.

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