Apud Sean <notsean@notmyemail.com> (japan.lang.japanese) hoc legimus:
>My wife writes her name in katakana. マドカ　I'm not sure why her father
>decided on that; he's a bit of an eccentric.

>Ok, I just asked her. She said he originally wanted to write her name in
>romaji, because it would look good with UP down UP down Up down (Madoka).
>Also, he's a long-time member of some romaji society. He's also a member of
>some kind of kunreishiki society. He hates Hepburn, claiming it was the
>system imposed by MacArthur during the occupation.

I've heard that before. A giggle really, as the basis of what is now
known as ヘボン式 was established by a Japanese ローマ字会 back in Meiji
times (admittedly it had some gaigin members like Chamberlain.)

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
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