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Weeaboo-Revised Hepburn

While at work today I was spending some time thinking about stuff that happened in the past and I recalled several incidents involving me and internet arguments over proper romanization of Japanese.  Such arguments have happened because of things I said on several occasions.  Or just someone ‘correcting’ my romanization.

Part of this problem arises from my non-acceptance of the existence of correct romanization.   The kana system was derived to service the Japanese language, and has been modified over the years to reflect changes in the language.  The Latin alphabet, however, was created without Japanese in mind.  Hence, all romanization attempts have various weak and strong points.  Kana is made for Japanese.  The Latin alphabet is not.

Despite this, the weeaboo community as a whole has decided that there is a correct romanization scheme and anything that does not follow those rules is wrong.  Most interesting is that this romanization scheme is not really accepted anywhere outside of this community.  It is found only in anime, manga, and game translations.  And usually only in fan translations.  Official translations tend to use more commonly accepted schemes.  The weeaboo romanization is a revised version of Hepburn, but as there already is a romanization scheme called Revised Hepburn I had to think of another name.  So I settled on Weeaboo-Revised Hepburn.

Hepburn was first made to be easy for English speakers to be able to pronounce. Even so, without training, English speakers weren’t going to pronounce these words properly.  Intonation, vowel length, and the alveolar lateral flap in particular would cause problems, and as time has passed it many, many simple words have been badly mispronounced simply because English speakers don’t understand the rules.  Even using Hepburn and Revised Hepburn.

Brainal Functions

One of the annoying things about my brain is that when sober my ability at judging alcohol intake is very good.  I know how much to drink and how much not to drink.

However, once I have a couple of drinks, I cannot for the life of me figure this out.

So, unless I set an a fixed amount, and have a good method of measuring that, once I get a little tipsy I completely loose my ability at figuring out a good place to stop.

Ah, why did I decide that that bottle of brandy needed to be finished off?  I would have been fine had I not done that.  But no.  I think, “Stupid bandy, I should just get rid of it.”  So I do.   And then an hour later I’m like, “Whoa, that was a really bad idea.”

I is smart.

Videos, Images, and Memes

I remember this commercial. Rachel remembers this commercial. Andrew and Paul do not. Thus I must discover if Katie remembers it.

This commercial has two sequels: Eagleman 2 and Eagleman 3. I don’t remember either of those. Eagleman 3 is horridly disturbing.

A few days ago I got rickrolled to the following video, and discovered an amazing song. The video is very eighties, but the song is awesome. It’s Rick Astley’s song Never Gonna Give You Up.

Finally there is Mima’s Twilight Spark from a soccer video game. It’s absurdly ridiculous for a soccer game. Which makes it funny. Embedded video is disabled, though.

Anyway, on to the images.

Heh

So I’m sitting at my computer at 1:30am and I hear Andrew say, “Maggie, don’t squirt water into the chicken!”

Lol.