Re: Romaji question

From: Bart Mathias (mathias_at_hawaii.edu)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:52:23 GMT

Sceadu wrote:
> "Chris Kern" <chriskern99@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:qq7fv0d7hv2ojv8mknbbohi0b3uom5ti6a@4ax.com...
>
>>
>> [...] the Halpern kanji dictionary represents that
>> reading as "SAT-", which seems a bit odd, but I can't think of any
>> other good way to do it.

> I think the "t-" works okay, if you know enough not to pronounce it.
> Since it's more like a gottal stop, there may be a better way, like an
> apostrophe. O'!

Hey, there's not the slightest HINT of a glottal stop in 早速. I've
know "linguists" to say there is one in words like 学校, but if there
is, it's totally redundant. (That kind of reduncancy obviously occurs
in language, else no one would say "bottle," e.g., with glottal stop
instead of a [t] or a flap.)

Does Halpern indicate the reading of 学 in that word as "GAT-"? Or is
it inconsistent?

Bart

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