In a message dated 7/14/2008 1:53:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cdhowie@gmail.com writes:

I thought it became much more convincing about the time that the chart was introduced. Your apparent reaction suggested that the elementary process of applying an unambiguous function is not sufficient, which boggles my mind.>> --------------------------------------- If you review once more what I actually said, and to what I was actually responding you might reap another reward.

In the remark to which you refer, I was not addressing the introduction of the chart at all. Rather I was pointing out that asking for a source (and then receiving one) is not pedantic, abstruse, irresponsible or cloying. It is rather, the way in which we normally work. I don't think that, whether or not there is an unambiguous way in which to transliterate Japanese, is such common knowledge, that it can pass, while in the heat of argument, without a source.

Perhaps I should have said something like "thank you for the chart, but I don't thank you for the manner in which you deliver as well a back-handed slap along with it". That isn't appropriate.

Will Johnson

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