Aya Hirano Mocked on TV – “She’s a Bit of an Idiot”

If you chat with real japanese people using romaji, they say "chyotto" instead of "chotto", and a lot of other spellings which we aren't used to. I had a hard time understanding this initially, then I got used to it.

It seemed to me that the japanese have a different way of seeing romaji as we nihongo learners see it.

After all, "cho" is made up of "chi" and yo".

Well, I would've corrected Darkrock too if I hadn't known this fact. But he isn't wrong

^ although Japanese people use it it's still a common mistake. Yes it can be pronounced correctly this way, but under the most commonly used romanization it is written wrong. If it was written on a language test it would be marked wrong.

If it appears in romanization system I have never heard of, or is some kind of rare exception to these rules, I apologize.

I guess next time I shouldn't post anything even If I'm just trying to be helpful.

So even if you write chiyouttou it would still be correct?

not really,Chottouちょうっとう and Chiyouttouちようっとう is a bit different

ちょうっとう - is that even a word?

Isn't is supposed to be ちょっと？

Not trying to be a smart-ass or anything. I really just want to know if there is some kind of misunderstanding on my part.

ちょうっとう...超...糖? 超っ糖? Lol, that's some pretty awesome sugar.

If you are really good in japanese, why not help us do some fansub and translation?
No offense but I have no idea why would someone want to correct something so small like ちょっと.

If you are really good Japanese, why don't you help use some fansubs and translation instead?
No offense, but I really don't understand why would someone correct something so small like ちょっと.

^^^^ hahaha fail! comment delays suck huh.

@Anon 3:08;
No official test is actually ever in romaji. Romaji sucks. Not to mention there are indeed several different romaji systems.

But who cares? Why did this conversation even crop up? Don't correct Darkrockslizer; it was one fucking letter! /smack

Yes there are several different systems of romanization that have come and gone over the years. I have an old J-E dictionary from the turn of the last century that spells things very strangely.

The Japanese are notoriously poor with their English, due in no small part to outdated textbooks and teaching methods. Perhaps this is why many write "chyotto" instead of "chotto" to this day. Another common one is "Inouye" as opposed to "Inoue."

>Romaji sucks.
Maybe so, but not half as bad as our own writing system. When I think back on all those wasted hours...

"Romaji" is called so because it uses the Latin alphabet, which dozens of other languages also use, all of which with their own pronunciations and phonetic conventions.

Wikipedia even says the first Romaji systems were based on the orthography of the Portuguese language. In fact, reading Romaji with my own language's phonetic conventions i automatically produce the correct Japanese pronunciation.

As expected there's still plenty of people believing everyone else in the world is trying to uniform to the english language, helplessly failing in the process...

I'd like to add that curiously I get an -almost- correct translation of pronouncing them the German way, too, if you only keep like four or five little rules in mind.

Learning romanization with Aya Hirano. O wait..

Also, her work as Haruhi (regardless of that endless eight nightmare) was good but Konata was AWESOME. Anything else he does besides being a seiyuu is irrelevant after that.

Er... SHE does. It's a she right?

I actually think there are some executives trying to deter her into going back to pure seiyuu work in a very underhanded manner.

If she complains, she'll just get kicked out. If she quits, they'll win. If she stays there and suffers humilliations, they still have their fun at her expense.

It's an easy win for them and a very bad scenario for Hirano.

Even if he romanized it with the rare form it would still be cyotto. I didn't say it mattered you apparently thought It did. It's just a simple correction didn't mean any thing by it. No need to freak out.

So why are you ragging so hard?

I wanna say stuff to agree w/ ur first statement but.. I've already said it all hours ago on a comment which is seriously delayed. So I better wait, than looking stupid in the future, saying the same thing twice.

~sigh~~~ >_> damn delays

Hepburns romanization is almost a standart.
Exemple from Wikipedia :
"the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requires the use of Hepburn on passports, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport requires the use of Hepburn on transport signs, including road signs and railway station signs."

Oh and anon 2:25?

You said "Actually it's chotto baka."

-You were correcting him.
-There was nothing to correct.
-That's because his statement was already correct.
-The way you said it made it appear like he was wrong.

Do we really have to spell everything out for you?

^ I was correcting his statement because it WAS wrong in Hepburn romanization it would be written as "chotto" in Nihon-Shiki it would be written as "tyotto". He wrote it as "chyotto" which is wrong in either sense.

I apologize to Domo-Kun because I also made a mistake, I wrote "ragging" when I meant raging.

Geez guys cool off I meant no ill intentions just thought maybe he was learning Japanese and wanted to know he made a common mistake.

true that(that means "agree",ami I right?)

Oh god, anonymous above is irritating...

Japanese media has always been somewhat... special, it's something to love and hate...

All the fuss over a bikini... Sigh.

She's so cute... :3