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From: Kirk Bender <kbender@znet.com>
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Subject: Re: General public Yaroze FAQ & JapLish 101
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:28:56 -0800
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> DEnnis Brinkhuis wrote in message <1dmz8te.135rub8yhq0u4N@a1-88-
> >... but how do you pronoune Yaroze?
> 
> The five Japanese vowels have only one pronunciation each - the ones that concern us here:
> 
> a as in father
> e as in edge or melody
> o as in solo or oasis
> 
> Each syllable is given equal stress, so yeah, I'd say 'yah-row-zay' is pretty close to the mark.
> 
> Derek :^)

Yes, that's row like in row your boat. 
As I understand it,
for the o, don't round your lips as much as in english, and raise
the back of tongue a little more than in english.
For the Japanese word yaroze, it is actually a long o, meaning
it is held for two counts, twice as long as the ah.
To indicate this, the romanization (conversion to roman letters
from japanese hirigana characters ya, ro, u, ze) should really be yarouze,
which is how it appears sometimes so people wrongly
pronounce it like pound or sour. Other romanization systems would
have it yaroze with a bar over the o, or yarooze.

I asked my Japanese teacher how it would be used and she said
it's a rough word, for example, the Japanese Yakuza gangsters
might say "yarouze" ("let's do it!") right before they kill someone.


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