Date:    Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:42:55 -0500
<br>From:    frank abate  abatef[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]COMPUSERVE.COM 
<br>Subject: Re: Nagano
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<br>Dear Kusujiro Miyoshi
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<br>Thank you very much for your reply to the Nagano question.  It seems to m=
<br>e
<br>that your answer clarifies the matter very well.
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<br>I now conjecture that the written pronunciation of the name "Nagano" was
<br>Anglicized (according to normal English stress-pattern rules) in older
<br>English dictionaries, with stress on the 2nd syllable, and that 
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Japan(ese) (2)
<br>  2. [ha:di]
<br>  3. HELP! Truncation continuing!
<br>  4. canoodle and chum
<br>  5. Call for papers
<br>  6. cut (2)
<br>  7. "hissy fit"
<br>  8. Monkey is dead?
<br>  9. Call for papers, ANS-MLA
<br> 10. Nagano
<br> 11. cut verb & modifier
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<br>Date:    Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:25:09 -0600
<br>From:    Mike Salovesh  t20mxs1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Japan(ese)
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<br>Larry Horn wrote:
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<br>         snip, to save bandwidth 
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<br>  Maybe someone figured
<br>  if it's OK to have "Colorado Rockies", it's OK to have "Japan Alps".  But
<br>  at least the former has an esthetically pleasing trochaic rhythm, while the
<br>  latter just sounds (if you'll excuse the technical vocabulary) silly.
<br> 
<br>  Larry
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<br>     Silly or no, those mountains were called "the Japan Alps" in
<br>English-language publications in 1952/53 when I was there.  They are so
<br>cited in an edition of __Japan: The Official Guide__ of that era. I
<br>still have it around the house somewhere.  (I was there courtesy of
<br>Uncle Sam and the Korean War.)
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<br>--  mike salovesh                                salovesh[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]niu.edu 
<br>    anthropology department
<br>    northern illinois university                     PEACE !!!
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