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From: takashi@rlgvax.UUCP (Takashi Iwasawa)
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Subject: Re: San Jose is "San Joz" if you are in Illinois...
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Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 13:57:21 EDT
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I wonder what a Japanese restaurant will bring you if you ask for Sak-a?
Sorry, Donald Eastlake, but for those people who might actually go to a real
Japanese restaurant, I feel I should correct your article.  The Japanese rice
wine is pronounced sa-ke; the 'a' is pronounced like the 'a' in "accent" or
"around", the 'e' is pronounced like the first 'e' in "eclectic" or
"essential".  In general, Japanese words are rendered phonetically when 
written in the Roman alphabet (because there is **NO** other way to do it).
Unforunately, even after you learn the rules for phonetic transcription,
you still have to figure out how to say it.  I suppose it's inflection and
pitch (I don't know anything about phonetics), but depending on how you say
"sa-ke" you could get rice wine or salmon.

                     It's been twenty years but I still remember a little bit.
                     Takashi Iwasawa