Hepburn Romanization: How to Read Japanese in the Latin Alphabet

Re:Hepburn Romanization: How to Read Japanese in the Latin A... by lyall on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:24PM (#49667251)

I'm surprised that articles like this that are pretty clearly AI-generated get any sort of traction here. Is it because people think the topic is interesting but don't actually care about the content?

> Three Japanese words, three Hepburn transcriptions. The letters you already know, telling you what they sound like.

I mean come on.

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Re:Hepburn Romanization: How to Read Japanese in the Latin A... by japgolly on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:10PM (#49667580)

Detecting AI writing is a skill that not everyone has.

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Re:Hepburn Romanization: How to Read Japanese in the Latin A... by refactor_master on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:27PM (#49667270)

> The letters you already know, telling you what they sound like

So… letters?

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Re:Hepburn Romanization: How to Read Japanese in the Latin A... by Timwi on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:47AM (#49738447)

> Is it because people think the topic is interesting but don't actually care about the content?

I'm having difficulty seeing where you draw the line between “topic” and “content”. I found the article interesting as it taught me a few things that I didn't already know. I did notice the one egregious AIism that you pointed out, but the rest was readable and informative. (Although I stopped at the point where it started talking about their software Fink.)

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