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09-16-2010, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by CoolNard View Post
There are lines or small symbols, within a word, depicting if the pitch should be high, low, long or silent. For example, the "o" at the end of "ohayo" is supposed to be prolonged, when you say the word, so they add a sort of mini hyphen on top of that "o" to show that. "Z" and "J" are also pronounced the same way and according to my teacher, people use them interchangeably.
No, romaji has absolutely nothing to do with pitch. Pitch is not prolongation, and everything you posted after the first half of the first sentence has nothing to do with pitch.
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