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Old 2011-04-24, 20:33   Link #932
Proto
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: St. Louis, MO
Age: 39
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Originally Posted by Malkuth View Post
Not exactly Tooru* and Kou/Kō are 1-1, while Tohru/Koh and Toru/Ko are attempts at phonetic equivalents, ignoring the whole incontestably problem. Also being native a language that is butchered in transliteration, I am somewhat sensitive with this subject.

* I think I did explain some pages back that Touru/Tōru is different from Tooru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaniz...se#Long_vowels

Toh/Koh are non standard accepted romanizations. Not my favorite though, I can agree that much.

(Except for not marking the double vowel in any form like in Toru/Ko. That is just a mistake as you point out)
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