On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Sean Barrett <sean(a)epoptic.com> wrote:
Ken Arromdee arranged electrons to indicate (back on
07/21/2008 06:46 AM)
that:
Good call. Someone already put up screencaps of
episode titles that
contain
the word; they are at
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x51/sparktg/tessaiga1.jpg
http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x51/sparktg/tessaiga2.jpg
Where do I find such people?
I read Japanese well enough to transliterate hiragana, and those
screenshots clearly show a "chisai tsu" less than half as tall as the
"te"
preceding it and the "sa" following. Accordingly, those five characters
should be read as "te s sa i ga."
Which doesn't mean the article should be moved! As someone else pointed
out, our article on the big guy is at [[Godzilla]], not [[Gojira]].
Disclaimer: I know nothing whatsoever about anime of any sort, and I am
nowhere near fluent in understanding Japanese (but I don't need to be to
simply map one character set to another).
Godzilla is a long established error -- so well established it's even mocked
in at least one of the remakes. ("it's GOJIRA, you idiots") or something
rather like that. It's actually an interesting question: at what point does
Wikipedia accept an obvious mistake as fait accompli?
--
--jpgordon ∇∆∇∆