Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site noscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sdcsvax!noscvax!cunningh From: cunningh@noscvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc,net.nlang Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'Honda' Message-ID: <195@noscvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Sep-83 05:22:35 EDT Article-I.D.: noscvax.195 Posted: Mon Sep 5 05:22:35 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Sep-83 22:50:05 EDT References: <357@mhuxj.UUCP>, <851@sdchema.UUCP> Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 9 One of the problems about pronouncing Japanese (besides the romanization of words) is the stressing of the various syllables. Japanese tend to stress all the syllables in a word more or less equally, while English speakers habitually seem to want to stress one syllable at the expense of all the others in a word. -- Bob Cunningham ...{ucbvax|philabs}!sdcsvax!noscvax!cunningh 21 17' 35" N 157 49' 38" W MILNET: cunningh@nosc-cc