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To: Neocon who wrote (20952)	6/19/2000 4:46:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why did you choose to pronounce Takeshita wrong? In Tokyo dialect each syllable gets even stress and full value, so that the name would be pronounced ta-ke-shi-ta. There are dozens of names that contain the syllable "shi" (Shigeta, the famous post-war Prime Minister, and some of them are followed by a syllable starting with t. I love transliterating Japanese names into English and then mispronouncing them. My favorite is a radiator shop in Honolulu "Ifukyu."