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When foreign names are written in Japanese there are a couple of ways of handling puncutation, and sometimes an equals sign is used. I hadn't actually thought a
by polm23 6y ago
When foreign names are written in Japanese there are a couple of ways of handling puncutation, and sometimes an equals sign is used. I hadn't actually thought about why it was used, but it seems an interpunct (・) is used where a space would be and equals can be used for an internal hyphen, or for words that are separated by a space but part of the same unit (de Niro).
- polm23 6y agoSome more detail on this, with citations, from an ask-a-librarian board (in Japanese). https://crd.ndl.go.jp/reference/modules/d3ndlcrdentry/index.php?page=ref_view&id=1000210282 https://crd.ndl.go.jp/reference/modules/d3ndlcrdentry/index....