Quote: Originally posted by Kimpatsu@May 19 2005, 11:39 AM
"jitsu", the onyomi of the character "sube" (skill, technique) is the pre-war romanization. The Japanese language was radically overhauled in 1948, with the addition of new kanji to the standard 2000 taught in schools, and the removal of some older ones. "-kai" (Organisation, viz., taikai, budokai, etc.) wa, pre-war, pronounced "kwai", and "kan" (budokan, etc.) was pronounced "kwan" (from which you can see modern-day Korean, "kwoon", as well).
HTH.
| As i said, i can read the Kanji but ain't no expert (actually my field lies more on Hiragana / Katakana). Does that mean that actually the whole 'Jitsu Vs. Jutsu' discussion is actually a bickering over the old score of 'potatoe Vs. potaatoe' (if you know what i mean?).
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