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[Jerry McAllister]

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> On Feb 23, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> > [*] Kame is Japanese for turtle, or more precisely it's an English
> > transliteration of the Japanese for turtle.
> 
> No, it is one of the Romaji transliterations [may be the only one since 
> it is a simple word, but there are multuple systems] for the japanese 
> for turtle $B55!!(Bor $B$+$a(B
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> The roman alphabet is one of the accepted alphabets and is used in 
> writing japanese, by japanese, with English out of the question, when 
> they cannot write kanji/hiragana/katakana.

Exactly right.   Japan has 4 "alphabets" (if you can truly call Kanji
an alphabet).    You will often see all four used together on a sign.

////jerry

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