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Hi Yuki,
That was a very enlightening lesson, I really enjoyed it.
The British always (probably not anymore) had to do things differently than
the rest of the world.
Herbert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yuki Taga" <yukitaga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Herbert Elstein" <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] about the "Price" virus posted here yesterday
> Hi Herbert,
>
> Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 9:01:48 PM, you wrote:
>
> HE> THANKS YUKI!
>
> HE> By the way is your name pronounced Yooky or Yahky?
>
> Yahky (???)
>
> HE> My problem is if we're speaking European or American.
>
> We are speaking neither of course; we are speaking Japanese. ^_-
> Syllables (except double-beat syllables) are very short and
> 'clipped', compared to most Indo-European languages.
>
> Representing Japanese sound using Roman letters is always going to
> only be an approximation of course.
>
> Many English speakers think that "tsunami" is pronounced the same way
> in Japanese that it is pronounced in English, but that is not so --
> 'tsu' represents a Japanese sound not native to English, and there is
> no stress accent on *any* of the three syllables; Americans
> invariably say 'sue-NAH-mi', finding it difficult without a fair bit
> of practice to not stress any syllable in a three-syllable word.
>
> And speaking of three-syllable words that ARE NOT even three
> syllables . . . (^_-) very few English speakers even understand how
> to pronounce the capital of Japan the way it is actually pronounced
> in Japanese -- both syllables are double-count, so 'toe'-'kyo', with
> two double-beat 'O' sounds, and never, ever, 'toe-key-oh', or any
> other three-syllable abomination.
>
> But then, English has this perplexing tendency to mangle foreign
> place names, something I've never really understood (Athens, Paris,
> Warsaw, Munich and Moscow sound much different in Japanese, very
> close to the way they sound in their native languages, than they do
> in English). I've never really understood exactly why English cannot
> be a Hi-Fi language. ^_^
>
> But for my name, 'yu' is close to 'you' (just very short and
> clipped), and 'ki' is close to 'key' (again, shorter and clipped). It
> would be almost impossible to pronounce my name too quickly.
>
> Yuki
>
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