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The name of the city is 東京 -- anything in Latin characters is a rough transliteration. Tokio was the common spelling in European texts until some time last cent
by qingcharles 2y ago
The name of the city is 東京 -- anything in Latin characters is a rough transliteration. Tokio was the common spelling in European texts until some time last century, and is still used regularly in continental Europe.
see also, e.g. Tokio Hotel
- Dilettante_ 2y agoA reference to Tokio Hotel was not on my HN bingo card
- echelon 2y agoThis is the first time Tokio Hotel has been mentioned on HN in over ten years. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22tokio%20hotel%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... That has me thinking of Neutral Milk Hotel. Totally different vibes.
- qingcharles 2y agoThank you for doing the background work. Wild they've never been mentioned before. And this time, not in relation to their music...
- labster 2y agoTokio is a different (masculine) name in Japanese, pronounced quite differently. /tokʲio/ vs. /to̞ːkʲo̞ː/. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_(given_name) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_(given_name)
- j16sdiz 2y agoWe are talking about the spelling centuries ago, when the romanisation were less standardised