Just curious what you mean by this. As far as I can tell, unless I'm missing something, Hepburn does map directly to kana, in the sense that given the Hepburn romanization it's possible to unambiguously reconstruct the kana spelling of the word. (The exception being the alternate kana for the syllables ji and zu, but then that seems to be true for most of the other systems you linked to too.) Is there something else you meant, or is there something I'm forgetting or don't know (which is entirely possible)?
(Oh, wait...come to think of it, I guess there's also sort of an issue with long e and o, isn't there? Or is there something else too?)
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Date: 2005-07-06 10:22 pm (UTC)Just curious what you mean by this. As far as I can tell, unless I'm missing something, Hepburn does map directly to kana, in the sense that given the Hepburn romanization it's possible to unambiguously reconstruct the kana spelling of the word. (The exception being the alternate kana for the syllables ji and zu, but then that seems to be true for most of the other systems you linked to too.) Is there something else you meant, or is there something I'm forgetting or don't know (which is entirely possible)?
(Oh, wait...come to think of it, I guess there's also sort of an issue with long e and o, isn't there? Or is there something else too?)