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From: Philip Newton <pne-news-20011120@newton.digitalspace.net>
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Subject: Re: Hiragana Characters (1/3)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:22:40 +0100
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:58:19 +0100, "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt"
<lastfuture@lastfuture.de> wrote:

> +------------------+
> |        ZA        |
> +------------------+
>         `;,         
>          ;;     \\  
>         ,;;,;;;'    
>     ,;;;';;'        
>          ;;         
>         ,;;         
>     ,;''  `         
>     ;;              
>      `;;;;;,        

I think those two \\ should be missing (thus changing the 'ZA' back into
a 'SA'), since I suspect "Taliszanna" is pronounced with an /s/ sound
(as if it were Hungarian, where <sz> = /s/) and not a /z/ sound. So
"Tarisana" would be closer than "Tarizana".

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.li>
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