Q: A password prompt in Japanese

[Tom Zurinskas]

> Nobunaga.

Hmmm.  ~noebunnaagu (stress on ~nnaa with ~aa as in "Saab")

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> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:37:50 -0800
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> Nobunaga.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
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> Joel S. Berson wrote:
>> If you were part-Japanese (but not fluent) and were using "oda" as a
>> prompt to remember a computer password (presumably both being
>> Romanji), what would the password be?
>>
>> This is a serious question, although probably unanswerable, as the
>> person who chose the password is no longer accessible. Online
>> Japanese-English dictionaries don't yield any self-evidently obvious
>> candidates. Except perhaps "odaki" ("greater waterfall [of two]"),
>> which might be a pun on "key".
>>
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