On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
And not one single time have you ever shown that there is any evidence for your position. You just keep declaring it to be true, declaring it to be true.
Kana are unambiguous. There's no way to translate the kana other than Tessaiga; it's like the Morse Code example. When you say that I've shown "no evidence", what you mean is that I haven't quoted a source which specifically says "this word spells out Tessaiga". But as I just finished trying to explain, that kind of information is not found in sources, because it's the result of doing "look up each kana in a table" several times. I could, if you wish, quote a separate entry in a table for each kana, the same way I could "quote" the meaning of a Morse Code word by quoting a table entry for each individual letter of the word. Would that be acceptable?
Common sense says, your hand is empty.
That is because you are demanding that all evidence follows the rules.
It doesn't make any sense to demand that evidence for a common sense exception to the rules must follow the rules. if it did, it wouldn't be an exception.
The kana in the original translate only as "Tessaiga". However, mistaking a small 'tsu' for the very similar looking large 'tsu' would result in "Tetsusaiga". That should be enough to treat it as an error unless we have some specific reason to believe otherwise. Rules or no rules.