Hacker News: stumulo_robhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stumulo_robHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:32:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by stumulo_rob in "Hepburn Romanization: How to Read Japanese in the Latin Alphabet"]]>AI slop aside, everybody seems to talk about romanization exclusively from the perspective of Japanese learners, while the biggest problem with Kunrei-shiki and Nihon-shiki is how they've been sabotaging Japanese people's ability to learn and pronounce English correctly. Hepburn is anglocentric and that makes perfect sense given how deeply embedded English is in modern Japanese.

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