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Isn't it basically just Wāpuro rōmaji, i.e. how you input Japanese using romaji with a keyboard. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C4%81puro_r%C5%8Dmaji http
by thrdbndndn 2y ago
Isn't it basically just Wāpuro rōmaji, i.e. how you input Japanese using romaji with a keyboard.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C4%81puro_r%C5%8Dmaji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C4%81puro_r%C5%8Dmaji
- pilaf 2y agoWhen typing in Japanese I tend to type "tu" instead of "tsu" or "si" instead of "shi" because the end result is the same (つ/し) and I save a keystroke, I assume most people who regularly input Japanese with a QWERTY keyboard do the same. The revised romanizaton from the article prefers "tsu" and "shi" though.
- thrdbndndn 2y agoThat's true—the actual IME is much more flexible than this. My point is more that this isn't really anything new. It's a fairly common way to Romanize Japanese in practice, even though it doesn't strictly follow Hepburn or Nihon-shiki. In fact, this style seems to be more widely used in the Western "fandom" world—on platforms like AniDB, Danbooru, and others—than the two "official" systems.