Re: What is the accepted katakana for the English alphabets?

From: necoandjeff (spam_at_schrepfer.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 23:57:47 GMT

"Chris Kern" <chriskern99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:30:54 GMT, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
> posted the following:
>
> >"JohnDeCarlos" <yuetwah2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:d2005bc8.0407051222.73996afb@posting.google.com...
>
> >> How do most japanese people actually pronounce $B%t!"%t%'!"(B $B%t%#!"%t%)(B
> >> do they actually pronounce bu, be, bi, bo?
> >
> >I think more and more are trying to pronounce the "v" sound (particularly
> >those well educated in English of course) but the vast majority still
> >pronounce it with a "b."
>
> This sometimes has a negative effect because they end up pronouncing
> $B%t%#(B as two syllables (bu-i). "bi" would be preferable to that, I
> think.

But then you can't distinguish it from B. I don't like the bui thing that
much either but I accept it as a necessary evil and even use it myself,
depending on who I'm talking to.

Jeff

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