At 00:09 28/07/96 -0700, you wrote:

You are right about the "ma" part.  I accidently read the name backwords 
while playing the RPG on import.  I forgot that an alternate 
pronunciation of that kanji is "UMA".  The "U" must have been dropped for 
euphony.

Good, you didn't need to know the lanuage to know that the ma is horse...
Simple deduction...

However, I do know that it is NOT pronounced "Lanma".  There are NO L's 
in Japanese!  When Japanese folk try to pronounce foriegn word with Ls in 
them, they replace the L's with R's.  This includes English, Chinese and 
other languages ( in contrast, there are a lot of L's in Chinese).  The 
singer of the theme song were trying to sound Chinese for some reason, so 
they pronounced the R's like L's.

It that there is no R's in japanese, they become L's...

That why they all yell

"LANMA!"

Or It's "Sheala-Sheala" or countless others...

And the fact that Japanes  poeple I know have said "Lumiko Takahshi" to
me...while etlaking english...
                        

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