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Subject: Re: [9fans] is nickle plan9 acceptable?
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:14:34 -0800
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I think the "N before M,B or P" rule makes sense.

Although I'm not a linguist, I speak a couple-or-three and I think
the rule has to do with the physiology of the mouth and is
a practical matter. Farsi has the same rule, e.g. Panbeh (cotton) or
Doshanbeh (Monday) are correctly pronounced Pam-beh and Doe-sham-beh.

At 11:00 AM 1/29/2002 +0900, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
>>Yeah, but I think that's a silly sheme.
>
>Curious.  I've thought anyone familier with English would like Hepburn style
>Romaji than that of formal one.
>
>For an example, when we say Kanpai, we close mouth for 'n' in KaNpai,
>whence, I believe, James Hepburn thought it should be KaMpai.  However,
>formal one is Kanpai, of course.
>
>Kenji   -- Sorry, for very local topic. :-)