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Subject: For those of you who can speak Asiatic languages...

...I have a question. When writing an East Asian language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) the symbol used to signify a word has nothing to do with its pronunciation, correct? If this is the case, how do people know how to pronounce new proper nouns? Say some Japanese company marketing person creates a name for a new product, how would he be able to write it down in a way that would make sense and in a way that someone else is able to pronounce it?

[Edited on 12.05.2012 6:43 PM PST]

  • 12.05.2012 6:42 PM PDT

Da Husk.

Sushi is the only answer.

  • 12.05.2012 6:59 PM PDT

From what I understand OP which for all I know could be entirely wrong the symbols do represent sounds/syllables.

  • 12.05.2012 7:01 PM PDT
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  • 12.05.2012 7:01 PM PDT
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KiLo SiErRa 13

Many new words adopt the english pronunciation.

Theres also another dialect to help pronounce the words, sort of like how difficult kana symbols have hiragana pronunciation near it to help readers in japanese text

  • 12.05.2012 7:04 PM PDT