[sumo] News Compot

[Moti]

----- Original Message ----
From: o s aka <oshakam at hotmail.com>
To: Sumo Mailing List <sumo at webtrek.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:59:50 PM
Subject: RE: [sumo] News Compot


> From: Sumocypher at aol.com> > In a message dated 11/11/2007 1:36:15
 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > kintamayama at yahoo.com writes:> > Some
 stuff::> Hamakaze Oyakata, ex-Gojoorou, has moved from Magaki beya to
 Sadogatake> > > Who is Gogoorou? Are we takomg "Gojoro" a little too far? If
 not. why not > Goojooroo? or Goujourou? or., of course Gojourou? Wha?> >
 Good question!  Here is a another one, aren't oh, oo and ou just a
 matter of how you finish saying the letter o?  And since it is a sound,
 why is it being used in an e-mail?  If that is the case, shouldn't the
 line read "Hahmahkahzeh Ouyahkahtah, ex Gohjoorou has moved from
 Mahgahkee behyah to Sahdougahtahkeh"?  Oh, how I long for the days when it was
 spelled the same way on the NSK website and in an e-mail.
 Not flaming, just asking.
 Aloha, o s aka (or if you prefer, ohsahkah, but I pronounce it osaka.
  By the way, that is not where I am from, it just happens to be my
 initials and the start of my last name.)<<



All shikona have a hiragana reading alongside their kanji reading, as they can be read in many different ways. I just transliterate the hiragana. Magaki and all the other words you used with a quaint spelling above (Oyakata, Hamakaze, Sadogatake) are written that way in hiragana as well. As for Osaka, Oosaka is the way it's written in hiragana, but I don't do places, I just do shikonae, the only reason being it may help people pronounce those shikonae correctly. If you pronounce Osaka with a short o, it's the wrong pronounciation, if you mean the city.  It's simply pronounced Oosaka with an elongated O, and it is written that way in hiragana. If I had that elongated sign over an o that some use on MY keyboard, I would probably use it. But I don't.
I just take the hiragana and use the English letter for each Japanese one. Only with the shikonae. 

Kintamayama




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