Quoting Sean Spillane <toku@nycap.rr.com>:

If you are using the romajii or the pinyin spelling, then that is 
correct. However, a native english speaker will have an easier time of

pronouncing it with the "h" at the end as it signals one to keep the 
mouth open longer.

Whether that's true or not, it's not generally considered good practice to 
change the spelling of words to match their pronounciation. If you did this in 
English, yore riting mite bee a littel hard too reed. Even with Japanese words, 
this is recognized as not a good thing. Nobody, I should think, wants to read a 
scene in which Ranma calls Akane cow why coo nay. (The correct spelling, of 
course, being "uncute.")

The only time this sort of thing *is* done is when you're translating an accent 
or other unusual way of speaking. (Yes, Shampoo has an accent, but only while 
she's speaking Japanese.) It would be reasonable to have Shamps say "Aiyah! Ah 
do declaih!" if you were doing a Ranma/Gone With the Wind fusion. :)


Garee Klep-pee
http://www.garykleppe.org/comics.html

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