Ryoga should really be Ryouga)

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Someone else will no doubt say "DO NOT use the Viz translations!!" but 

that's

the beauty of so many diverse personalities, right? :-)

The difference between Ryouga and Ryoga should indicate the difference 
between a long and a short vowel sound for the 'o', right?  But since 
the transliterations are principally for english speakers, and every 
english dialect would pronounce Ryoga with a long vowel anyway, the 
Ryouga spelling, while probably a bit more accurate, becomes redundant.  
Nightmares like Jyuusennkyouu occur when you try to put every nuance of 
Japanese pronunciation into an english transliteration.  It seems like a 
waste of time.  English speakers are just going to pronounce it with 
their bad english accents anyway, so might as well make it easier to 
read.  Japanese speakers will undoubtably recognize the word anyway and 
know how to say it correctly.



Joshua Dyal
j-dyal@geocities.com
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/1958/


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