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   I just finished my first year of Japanology, so to me it’s quite interesting. Apart from the wonky translations… (構内 and 社内 I get as “within the premises” and “within the company”.)

   And personally I would prefer a Hepburn variant for transliteration.

   Comment by Jacke — June 15, 2006 #

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   nihongo ga wakarimasen.

   Jackie- the “shanai” on the poster is not the same character you used, and you ignored the “eki” kanji on the poster. Why?

   Comment by Roger — June 15, 2006 #

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   You know, I didn’t even mention the big black title on top. The あってよかった thing written 逢って好かった。

   I have never seen 良かった written with that 好き Kanji. What’s up with that?

   I think it is 嫌がらせ。

   Comment by harvey — June 15, 2006 #

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   Hey. What is a Hepburn varient for transliteration?

   Comment by harvey — June 15, 2006 #

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   Because I just copy-pasted the “shanai” from the post. And then in a failed attempt at logic I ignored the “eki” since I didn’t see how it fit together with pachinko. Hope my response satisfied you rogerino.

   You could probably find more at wikipedia, but the Hepburn romanization styles emphasize more how the words sound when read, ie. は as a particle becomes “wa”, しゃ becomes “sha”, etc.

   Comment by Jacke — June 15, 2006 #

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   Hm. That last comment got fudged up. I shouldn’t try to use html at 3 am, I guess.

   Comment by Jacke — June 15, 2006 #

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   I see, thanks for the hepburn explaination.

   I never did much with roomaji in my studies, so it’s all funky and 適当。

   Where were you copy pasting roomaji in to get translations? All the online dictionaries I am familar with work with Japanese text.

   This is cool. I wonder how many other people on this blog study Japanese…

   Comment by Harvey — June 15, 2006 #

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   i just started studying it.
   or rather i have been on and off for about a year. more off than on till recently.
   and my classes start in a couple months.

   Comment by Jakal — June 15, 2006 #

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   Yo!
   i can read hiragana!! letz see how much i can remember once am out of Nippon!
   BTW u know any good “interactive” sites to learn this amazing language??

   Comment by Karth! — June 15, 2006 #

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    Jackie, try using “Rikai.com” and go directly from the kanji to English. Romaji will just screw you up, as it is ambiguous (sha is 社 and 車).
    The transliteration style Harvey is using is basically typed Japanese, and how actual Japanese people would write it.

    Comment by Roger — June 16, 2006 #

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    Actually as I was studying Japanese, my teachers went straight to Hiragana and Katakana, and never once had us memorize any proper form of roomaji.

    I understand why not, it would create the same kinds of problems that Japanese who learn language like French or Spanish in Katakana have.

    Because of that though, it took me forever to learn how to input characters like づ (typed: du, pronounced like zu) and katakana contraptions like ウィ (typed: wi, pronounced ui, like French ‘Oui’)

    As for online places to learn Japanese… I honestly… Don’t… Know! I’ll do some research on that. For Chinese I know plenty…

    Comment by harvey — June 16, 2006 #

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    haha, good idea to learn Japanese.
    If I go to Japan again, I would open my eyes on anything.
    Hah, Harvey. I think if you were in China, all the pics would be Chinese.

    Comment by Shuming — June 17, 2006 #

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    “try using “Rikai.com” and go directly from the kanji to English. Romaji will just screw you up, as it is ambiguous (sha is 社 and 車)”

    That’s what I did. Either it was changed afterwards or FF somehow mysteriously displayed the wrong kanji. (Btw, you keep misspelling my nick.)

    Comment by Jacke — June 17, 2006 #

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