A question for speakers/writers of Japanese and Chinese

Mark A Mandel mam at THEWORLD.COM
Fri Oct 11 14:43:17 UTC 2002


On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Mike Morgan wrote:

#(almost?) always writen in hiragana). Numbers are written either in kanji or
#in romaji ('Roman' letters, not to be confused with our Roman numerals).

Surely you don't mean the letter string, e.g., 'three'!! Are you talking
about Hindu-Arabic numerals (which we usually call "Arabic" in English),
the digits 0 through 9? I wouldn't be surprised if those are comprised
in the definition of "romaji", but then romaji is a superset of the
Roman alphabet.

-- Mark A. Mandel



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