Re: Origin of 'hoomu'

"necoandjeff" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
Sean wrote: 
intended, many do, and it is quite different from バンクーバー. IMO, that
ヴァ 　ヴィ　ヴ　ヴェ　ヴォ stuff both looks and sounds horrible. (Jeff, now
it's time for you to push your nutty idea again.)


Dude, my idea is the bomb. You'll see. One day soon you will be teaching
your students to write words like レンタル"・ヴィデオ and ヴァイオリ"ン.

There comes a point when he'll be better off just saying "Write the damn thing in English!" (except that he'd be saying it in Japanese).
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