Just made a little thing for my group at uni, which happens to be group 1 (of four).
2013-09-01 24456, 2013
flamingspinach
oh
2013-09-01 24420, 2013
flamingspinach
did you want a romanization that would sound vaguely accurate if a non-Japanese speaker tried to sound it out based on English pronunciation rules?
2013-09-01 24419, 2013
Leftmost
Pfft. Not using Hepburn?
2013-09-01 24441, 2013
flamingspinach
hepburn is (nominally) the kind of romanization I just described
2013-09-01 24405, 2013
flamingspinach
personally I prefer a romanization scheme that's prioritized towards having a simple mapping between kana and latin digraphs
2013-09-01 24410, 2013
Leftmost
Fair enough. I tend to prefer Hepburn, since I'm more interested in something that's readable at a glance. I don't find that Kunrei-shiki or Nihon-shiki are that, for me.
2013-09-01 24439, 2013
flamingspinach
well, what do you mean by "readable"
2013-09-01 24438, 2013
Leftmost
I can interpret or pronounce it aloud without converting in my head.
2013-09-01 24448, 2013
flamingspinach
right
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flamingspinach
I think you'll want to eventually get to a point where kana itself is the most readable form of japanese syllables
2013-09-01 24422, 2013
Leftmost
Oh, I'm there.
2013-09-01 24447, 2013
Leftmost
I took three years of Japanese at university. I just haven't used it in... ten years.
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Leftmost
かながよく読める
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flamingspinach
IMO if you still find hepburn more "readable" than other romanizations, you're thinking about japanese pronunciation in terms of English sounds rather than as points on the 五十音 table
2013-09-01 24421, 2013
Leftmost
I'm not sure that's true. I think differently about romanization and kana.
2013-09-01 24434, 2013
Leftmost
They're different scripts and use different paths.
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flamingspinach
fair enough
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flamingspinach
so my primary association with ro-mazi is the fact that I use it to type japanese
2013-09-01 24440, 2013
flamingspinach
so maybe it's more closely related to kana in my mind (in that when I type ro-mazi kana appears on my screen)
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Leftmost
Heh, I still use Hepburn, or something close, when typing.
2013-09-01 24440, 2013
Leftmost
こんにちは -> kon'nichiha
2013-09-01 24423, 2013
flamingspinach
part of the reason for that is that it makes for a better rhythm when typing
2013-09-01 24452, 2013
Leftmost
Fair enough. I'm certainly not trying to sell you on what I do. :)
I don't agree that finding hepburn easier to read means you're still thinking about the pronunciation in terms of another language. any romanisation system has to be learnt, no matter how good/bad a fit it is for a particular language, so any you're not familiar with will be harder to read than one you are familiar with.
2013-09-01 24447, 2013
nikki
I mean, it's not like english's spelling is particularly well suited to english words, but if you rewrite english to use a more straightforward spelling system, it takes quite a bit of getting used to :P
2013-09-01 24403, 2013
nikki
even though you're presumably still thinking of it in terms of english
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CallerNo6 stumbled on a band called "ghoti hook"
2013-09-01 24451, 2013
nikki
ew
2013-09-01 24453, 2013
drsaunde
ocharles: still around?
2013-09-01 24418, 2013
ocharles
yea, on it
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culinko
reosarevok: ping
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reosarevok
culinko, pong
2013-09-01 24442, 2013
culinko
i just found a release date for one release you were editing in the past. i don't think the release date was here before, or something like that
i'm wondering, is it possible to have multiple mb accounts registered on one mail, or is it against the rules?
2013-09-01 24400, 2013
reosarevok
Certainly possible
2013-09-01 24405, 2013
reosarevok
Dunno if desirable
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culinko
well since you can't add artist subscriptions to folders and set them different options, like not to send it to mail, i was thinking about making another account, subscribing to all slovak artists and using reports with "Show only results that are in my subscribed entities." :P
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nikki
culinko: it's never worked that well for me, since you have to be signed in as one user to load the page but then you'd presumably want to edit using your normal account
2013-09-01 24428, 2013
nikki
but yes, you can do that if you want :P
2013-09-01 24435, 2013
nikki
some days I get three subscriptions emails :/
2013-09-01 24436, 2013
culinko
well i'll use ff and chrome
2013-09-01 24432, 2013
nikki
I used to use one for getting emails about the things I actually cared about, but in the end I gave up, turned off the option to automatically subscribe me to artists I create, unsubscribed from loads of stuff and then never got round to dealing with the other accounts >_<
2013-09-01 24434, 2013
culinko
i was just thinking about subscribing with my main account, but i don't want to get mails everytime somebody merges a classical recording (which happens pretty much every day) :/
it should be possible to subscribe to multiple at a time if you generate the urls yourself
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reosarevok
"Open 752"
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reosarevok
...
2013-09-01 24433, 2013
reosarevok
Why are there so many dupe relationships :(
2013-09-01 24441, 2013
culinko
they are waiting for you to increase your edit count
2013-09-01 24455, 2013
nikki
he doesn't need help with that
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reosarevok
I really don't :(
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ocharles
reosarevok: literally dupe?
2013-09-01 24439, 2013
reosarevok
Old with / without date ones, and then silly things like "chamber orchestra" vs "orchestra", or "solo piano" vs "piano", or "performer" vs "guest performer", or dated May vs dated May 5
