On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Ok so he says that the katakana, hiragana, etc. transliteration is unambiguous, and all I have to do to counter that is to say, "No, it's actually ambiguous".
We don't demand sources for how to count to 2 or how to look up Morse code, simply because someone says "no, I don't believe that" and claims that saying so makes it into a dispute that needs a source. A dispute is at minimum a *sincere* disagreement, not simply a way of using a rule to make people jump through hoops.
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However, it is rather an assumption of bad faith to state that a dispute is -not- sincere. It really is pretty clear-if the material is likely to be challenged, or -is in practice challenged-, source it. If it's really blatantly obvious, sourcing will take all of five seconds. With some very simple searches, I can source that the Earth is round, orbits the sun, and that the chemical formula for water is H2O. If you have to argue about sourcing it, it's probably not as obvious as you thought to begin with, and then it really -is- good to go find a source. If it's that blatantly obvious, you'll find a source quickly.