Japanese 1 The annoyance of "oo"

Is Shachoo spelled しゃちょお or しゃちょう? I was under the impression that if two "oo"s where present I'd have to put a う at the end but apparently that is not always the case.

Do you mean a company president?

社長
しゃちょう
Shachou

=O.O=

>>1
That sort of funny spelling tends to have historic reasons behind it. Compare the ways (yes, plural) "oo" gets pronounced in English; "boot" vs "foot", I've heard at least two ways to pronounce "poor"…

>>4
Nah, in this case, you can just chalk it up to "lol romaji sux"

>>1

don't worry too much about it; the only exceptions worth noting are おおく and おおきい・おおきな

>>1
Selling is shachou しゃちょう.
Shachoo is しゃちょお.
But whichever you can pronounce
native can understand what you wanna say

>>6
The exceptions are おおい.

Just use macrōns you faggot.

How does that help, cuntlips?

Thanks fellas.

Another question when it comes to katakana how do I spell words like reezun and chaahan?

レーズン　AND　チャーハン　OR　レエズン　AND　チャハアン

>>11
This is silly. Why did you learn all this in romaji to begin with? Katakana uses extensions, so it's レーズン and チャーハン. Also, チャハアン is wrong even if you weren't using extensions.

Sounds OP doesn't know how to actually read

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>>5
No you can't, because しゃちょお and しゃちょう are romaji-ized in different ways, as shacho and shachou. At least for anyone who knows how to write romaji.

>>16
I don't see how your point is relevant at all.

1. why would you even romanize しゃちょお
2. I was responding to >>4 ("historical reasons")
3. nothing you wrote refutes the "lol romaji sux" point at all

>>17
I just meant that romaji is okay when it's used correctly, but most people don't follow exact rules. (So you were right, it does suck.)

>>17
The "historical reasons" I mentioned, explains how things are spelled differently than they are nowadays pronounced. In the English example, "oo" once had uniform pronunciation in "foot"/"boot"/"poor".
Similarly, the Japanese articles "wa" and "o" are still being written "ha" and "wo" in kana, because that's how they were once pronounced. I imagine it's the same with the "ou" spelling of long o's.

Oh and btw, Romaji hardly sucks at all when ppl will just, like, actually follow the rules. (ちょお="chou", ちょう="choo", for starters. "Chō" is useful for showing pronunciation, especially to Anglophones still stumbling over how they pronounce things.)

I like stapler

>>19
actually follow the rules
ちょお="chou", ちょう="choo"

giggle giggle

>>21
Yeah, typos can fubar your shit if you're not careful.