romanization issue

[Wakannai]

forum group TJP e yokoso.

Should be youkoso right?

[chikara]

Yes, or yōkoso or ..........

[jimbreen]

Yes, or yōkoso or ..........

Back in the old days on the SLJ group we used to joke about the "Holy Romanization Wars" because there were some 訓令式 devotees who'd insist on Huzitu, etc. etc.

I avoid ローマ字, but when I am forced to use it I prefer ワープロローマ字, i.e. "youkoso" instead of yōkoso. Why? Because it's what you type into your IME, it accurately represents how it is written in kana, it is "round-trip-safe" between ローマ字 and kana, etc. etc. I like to be able to paste ローマ字 straight into an IME or dictionary program and get the correct kana.

I don't give two hoots about whether it's tsu/tu or sha/sya. Both work fine - it's Tookyoo that pisses me off. As a dictionary compiler, one of my pains has been (and still is) people work off ローマ字 and try and put in a "new" entry of ろおにん or こおじょお because they simply don't know how kana, i.e. *real* written Japanese works.

I'd encourage everbody to learn kana ASAP and avoid ローマ字. (The only time I use constructs such as yōkoso is when I'm writing something to be read by a non-Japanese aware audience.)

[Wakannai]

I don't give two hoots about whether it's tsu/tu or sha/sya. Both work fine - it's Tookyoo that pisses me off.

don't forget ei > ee. Lots of dictionaries don't catch that. And of course, looking up ei and finding the word under ee is highly annoying for me.

[chikara]

... I avoid ローマ字, but when I am forced to use it I prefer ワープロローマ字, i.e. "youkoso" instead of yōkoso. Why? Because it's what you type into your IME, it accurately represents how it is written in kana, it is "round-trip-safe" between ローマ字 and kana, etc. etc. I like to be able to paste ローマ字 straight into an IME or dictionary program and get the correct kana. .....

ワープロローマ字 is my preference also.

... I'd encourage everbody to learn kana ASAP and avoid ローマ字. ....

Hear, hear!