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...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]