Jonathan Matthews
これわカタカナ質問です。 (ごめんなさいちょっとええ後です。) こんにちわみんなさん。私の名前わジョナタロウです。カタカナわ紛らわしです。私わタイプのええ後いまです。ごめんなさい。私の日本語わわるいです。 In katakana, the character ー is used to make vowel sounds longer. So in the name that I chose for myself, Jonatarou, why isn't it spelled ジョナタロー? I always thought that a 'u' after an 'o' in romaji was meant to prolong the vowel. 実例わケーキです。
2015년 5월 16일 오후 9:06
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Hmm...I think you're right, and it would be spelled ジョナタロー. Have you heard otherwise? Oh, and by the way, the particle "wa" is spelled with the hiragana character は but pronounced as wa. Example: ジョナタローのでんわばんごはなんばんですか。 Jonatarou no denwa bango wa nan ban desu ka? What is your phone number? As you can see in this example, わ is used for a "wa" sound inside a word. でんわ means telephone and is pronounced as "denwa", but the particle wa always uses the は hiragana character which is otherwise pronounced as "ha".
2015년 5월 16일
In my opinion, you can choose whichever you like, ジョナタロウ or ジョナタロー because it's like a nickname, TAROU is originally from Japanese and there's no specific rule in this case. However, for example, for New York, we shouldn't write ニュウヨウク because it's the English word(s) and we usually use "ー" for the long vowels. (It is used for "cake", too, because it's from the English word.)
2015년 5월 17일
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