Talk:yonkai

yokai
See oujo--50 Xylophone Players talk 16:43, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I don’t understand what you’re driving at. —Stephen 17:12, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom, correctly spelled entry exists. Robert Ullmann 18:17, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep in accordance with the discussions we’ve had and decisions we’ve made over the past few years that included some Japanese scholars and linguists. —Stephen 21:16, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You don't understand what I'm driving at? What I'm driving at is that 2 words in Japanese (just presume for a second that yokai&yōkai are both (different) words) such as yokai and yōkai are often completely unrelated to one another, even though one who is unfamiliar with Hepburn might easily get them mixed up since the difference between them is just a macron and they are otherwise spelt exactly the same; see the two entries I pointed out in ojo. It would be hard enough for a person to associate the appropriate meaning with the appropriate word if they mixed up things like yokai and yōkai without them being under the delusion that those words were one and the same.--50 Xylophone Players talk 22:25, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, I finally figured out that that’s what you meant. We discussed this problem last year and, I think, the preceding year, and decided that the best way to handle romaji entries is like we do with Latin...that is, without macrons. Since there are usually several different senses for a given romaji entry, they are differentiated in the article using macrons in the head word and, especially, by placing the kanji, if any, at the beginning of each sense. This make Japanese more more accessible to those who don’t know how to type Japanese. —Stephen 22:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Discussion closed. The yōkai related definition is no longer in this entry.--50 Xylophone Players talk 11:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)