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日語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread2 質問

Name: Anon 2008-03-22 1:37

If you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

Japanese - Ask questions thread
http://dis.4chan.org/read/lang/1174719097/l50

Name: Anonymous 2008-05-22 5:22

Added note to >>172:

According to my wife (No. she is real, Japanese, and has a bachelor's degree in Literature and teaching qualification in junior high Japanese class), the rules are explained in detail here:

http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000061/files/377_2754.html

Note that the article is an uber-wall of text in Japanese (I gave up after the first few lines).

Today I happen to be staying at her parent's house and had a chance to ask them the pronunciation of 水族館 (sui-zoku-kan, an aquarium), which consists of three on-yomi kanji but seems to satisfy the simple condition at the 族館 part. Their answers are:

Her parents: suizokkan.
Her sister: The pronunciation is suizokkan, but you write it as すいぞくかん (suizokukan) in hiragana.
My wife: Finish your lunch already!

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