Re:English-friendly Romanization system proposed for Japanes...
by pilaf on Monday January 06, 2025 @09:11AM
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When typing in Japanese I tend to type "tu" instead of "tsu" or "si" instead of "shi" because the end result is the same (つ/し) and I save a keystroke, I assume most people who regularly input Japanese with a QWERTY keyboard do the same. The revised romanizaton from the article prefers "tsu" and "shi" though.
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Re:English-friendly Romanization system proposed for Japanes...
by thrdbndndn on Monday January 06, 2025 @10:36AM
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That's true—the actual IME is much more flexible than this.
My point is more that this isn't really anything new. It's a fairly common way to Romanize Japanese in practice, even though it doesn't strictly follow Hepburn or Nihon-shiki. In fact, this style seems to be more widely used in the Western "fandom" world—on platforms like AniDB, Danbooru, and others—than the two "official" systems.