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Brad Knowles wrote:
>         There is a Japanese word for thank you.  How do you think that it
> is properly spelled using what they call "romaji", and how is it
> pronounced?

"Arigato".

(Everyone knows "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto")

The more interesting one is the formal:

	"Domo arigato gozaimashita"

The interesting part is that "shita" is pronounced "shta".

Japanese is a much easier language to learn from Romaji texts if you
"happen" to have the full set of "Mangaijin" (pun on "Magazine for
foreigners"), and if you happen to know that it's SOV rather than
SVO order for most sentences.

-- Terry

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