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Am Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:38:39 -0500 schrieb Oliver Cromm:
> Mike Wright wrote:
>
>> Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>>> Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh LEE Sau Dan:
>>>
>>> > The Japanese do write 煙草 and pronounce it "tabako"!!! But nowadays,
>>> > the generate write it in Hiragana instead of Kanji.
>>>
>>> Hmm, not Katakana? Why not?
>>
>> My first theory is that the transcription of kanji is generally done
>> using hiragana.
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> I wondered about that one, too, and came to this conclusion, but I am
> not sure at all. Maybe it became common in Hiragana, before the
> Katakana-norm was established?
>
Which Katakana-norm? The current one says Katakana for western and
marked stuff, the rest is Hiragana. But few decades ago, Katakana +
Kanji was the norm for all official texts, wasn't it?
Joachim
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