Re: uh?

The Wanderer <inverseparadox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been forced to conclude, after givning the issue a fair amount
> of thought some time back, that Japanese does not contain any way to
> represent several different sounds which in English are alternate
> pronunciations of the vowels.

Well, yes. How long have you studied Japanese?

There are only five vowels permitted in Japanese, and English has
dozens. (The fact that we have only around five symbols to encode
those sounds is, of course, a similar problem to the Japanese system,
but confusing in a different way.)

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