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Serious question: what is the point of doing this?

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Why do so many people transliterating Japanese words and names (I'm looking at you TokyoPop) use "-h" to indicate extended vowel sounds? If I see "toh" I think of that as a SHORT sound, not long.

"h" is an unvoiced sound. Try pronouncing it by yourself and you'll sound like you're wheezing or something. Now try transitioning from a vowel (voiced) to that unvoiced wheeze. What do you get? A sudden cutoff, and NOT an extension of the vowel.

As an example of English usage, "ah" is a very quick expression, with a short burst of "a" cut off suddenly. "Aah" would be used to indicate a longer vowel sound, though still with the "-h" to indicate that it stops rather than trails off.

Why then do people get it so horribly wrong with Japanese transliteration?

tl;dr: "-oh" != "-ou"

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a­nimooted

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That's all.

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