the lo is actually Ro but pronounced Lo, with athe slightest r ever, confused the hell out of me the first time and the u at the end of arigatou as you wrote is actually and extended o meanning it is spelled arigatoo when done properly. Or at least thats hwo we ar taught. I thought those kanji looked familiar.

 

thanks for the lesson xeros, but you might want to look at my location. Not implying that I am some sort of language master or something (I'm not), but I've lived here for four years - so I've worked out the basics, lol. My instinct, when posting this sort of stuff, is to convert katakana to english (in cases where it is usage is obviously and clearly borrowed from english).

whoever taught you should have pointed out that there are several methods for romanizing japanese (the hepburn system "?" would be a third version in this example). In fact (and this is just my opinion), the version you are using is the least correct - as it inaccurately depicts the original hiragana.

anyway, that's my 2c

btw: the ro/lo pronounciation differs considerably between individual speakers and dialects - some have almost no 'ro' inflection, while the majority stray somewhere in between.

 

the hepburn system would be an "o" with a stroke above it (my computer isn't displaying it now)

 

Greaaat...pissing match over who knows their shiat.

 

sorry :p being incorrectly corrected gives me the *****.

carry on! nothing to see here.

 

Japanese language lesson from a guy in Wisconsin or Kobe, Japan... hmm, I think I'll go with the guy from Japan - lol

 

Hahaha...no biggie. I know how it is on something you work so hard on. I was getting corrected left and right while I was in Japan.

 

For those of you in the US, how do you go about buying tickets for TAS? Where did you stay, would you reccomend somewhere else? Is this for consumers or vendors only?

 

first day is press day.

you can buy tickets at the door

I would simply recommend staying in central tokyo (for all the other fun stuff) - it's an easy train trip into chiba

 

Damn! The intake piping on that last one must be at least 6"

 

just go to a scalper outside TAS...get ten bucks off..

 

I love the first pic.

 

Link to the first car.

http://www.autoexe.co.jp/car/RX-7(FD)/index.html

 

thanks for the link that car looks dam good.

 

I'm sure some 3rd gen 20b guys would be interested in that v-mount for thier car! I wonder how he fit that all under the hood

 

Here's a link to photos of TAS 06 I took. all photos are 600x400, around 300 or so.
chuck


http://www.sleeper7.net/~nismo/Tokyo...ge/album1.html

 

I've already made plans with my fab guy to redo my setup for v-mount