Talk:Wuji

Moving Ooje to W.J.? Frankly, I'm not all too happy with the current romanisation myself, but I'm not gonna question it. For all purposes it's the best we got. That said, W.J. may have been the intent, but for pronunciation vs. spelling it's a linguistic nightmare (like B.H. was). The real problem is that we no current valid romanisation for the name in a language other than English, like we did for B.H. (Germanic) and Arc (French). If there's a language that has "Wu" and "Ji" as valid standalone letters I'm interested in hearing it.

Don't you just love Japanese and it's word games? :P JelZe GoldRabbit 15:55, 27 May 2013 (EDT)

I very badly want to be able to justify moving this to "W.J." and Sou to "Sw", since that's clearly what they're getting at, but it isn't what they got at, so I think it's probably outside our "authority", so to speak. -LV 16:25, 27 May 2013 (EDT)

French has "ji" for J, although the W still eludes me (but sometimes Japanese uses "ji" for words that end with a "j" sound, like Ravage). I just feel like the romanization should incorporate W in some form, because the intention is pretty obviously a "wu" sound. It's just that Japanese can't say "wu", like how they can't actually say "el". It can be "Wuji" or whatever. Mimi 16:32, 27 May 2013 (EDT)

In the case of Sou, I think he could be reasonably moved to "Saw". At least we'd get one part of the pun. Mimi 16:37, 27 May 2013 (EDT)

Except "saw" is properly rendered in Japanese as ソー (sō) and not ソウ (sou). I know, I'm being pedantic (not to mention it wouldn't matter spelling-wise in hiragana)... JelZe GoldRabbit 11:01, 28 May 2013 (EDT)

ソウ (映画) Mimi 11:18, 28 May 2013 (EDT)

ミュージックソー Musical Saw. So both ソウ and ソー are valid. Bleh. JelZe GoldRabbit 11:53, 28 May 2013 (EDT)