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Iwo Jima WW2

BlkPny

BlkPny

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A4sForever said:
Since you're good with this ... a question:

I always thought Japanese to Engrish :) "transliterations" had to end in a vowel ... i.e., Toky"O" ... Osak"A" .... Kansa"I" ... and so on. Everything I've ever read or seen from the Japanese in ended in a vowel in the English.

So how does the navigation waypoint "GOBOH" (about halfway from Osaka to Kagoshima) sneak in there .... hmmmmmmmmm - "O" ??? :)
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Actually, I believe "Goboh" is a transliteration for "Joboy", a Japanese National hero.
 
jdnew

jdnew

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I thought that the majority of the japanese alphabet was either a vowel or a consonant paired with a vowel.
a, i, u, e, o, are the base vowels and the rest of the alphabet is those vowels paired with a consonant. ka ki ku ke ko..etc. of course you have exceptions like with (s) sa, shi, su, se, so, but for the most part you dont see many consants beside one another. Japanese was my foriegn language in college, but I don't remember a whole lot of it.
 
BeanFighter

BeanFighter

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The deal with the "h" after an "o" to signify a long vowel comes from a modified Hepburn romanization sometimes refered to as "passport Hepburn".
 
Skippy

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BeanFighter said:
Translate this...

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HAHAHAHA, That would read "Baka Gaijin" -- stupid foreigner(s). The Japanese Naval Ensign in the background just sells it. If that were on a t-shirt, I would wear that through Shibuya station and see how many people laughed at me when I pretended I didn't know what it meant.

Since BlkPny brought it up, you might find some nice cases of translation gone wrong at engrish.com.
 
RedDog

RedDog

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Agreed!!!!


feddoc.....from just looking at the photo, I can assure you that WalMart sells lighter fluid and lighters that can solve that problem.......
 
B

bert

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As a side note, among the upsides of FDNF tours is the chance to volunteer to assist on some of these recovery missions.
 
brownshoe

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Ron,

Some really great photos there. Thanks for posting.

Steve

(Too cold for fishing? My ass! Get up here from the Keys and help us dig out! :) I'm sorry to hear about Debbie's hip problems. I hope all goes well.)
 
Fog

Fog

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Great photos. I've likely posted this before, but my dad was an AMS in a Navy PB4Y2 (Privateer) squadron that was part of "McArthur's Navy" and which operated alongside AAF squadrons from New Guinea, to Morotai & on to the Philippines (not Iwo). He always maintained that the AAF, if given enough gas, would crash every plane they had in a matter of weeks. I still have pics of him sitting in P-51 cockpits & standing beside B-24s, B-25s & other AAF planes. Typically, in the land bases they flew from, the AAF was on one side of the field & the Navy squadrons on the other.
 
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