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kazinator
10 hours ago
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Japan to revise romanization rules for first time ...
The difference in kana was not recently selected in order to represent a feature of the contemporary language. It is historic!!!
z500
7 hours ago
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I think the confusion here is in the placement of the vowels. おお and おう do sound identical when pronounced as a single unit, but the おう in 小売 (こ.うり) isn't a single unit, it's just a お that happens to be next to a う
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