In a message dated 9/24/2002 4:38:45 PM Central Daylight Time, Aleh@aol.com 
writes:

I get the distinct impression that Japanese have real trouble saying a
word that ends in a consonant without adding a vowel.  So if you ask a 
Japanese person to call you "Tach", it'll come out "Tachu".  Speaking of
which, the Kunos would probably have a foreign accent to their Japanese.

It would be said 'Tachi'; 'chu' in Japanese is a combanation of 'Chi' and 
'Yu'.

We seem to have a romanji meltdown here. I would pronounce "Tach" like the 
first part of "Taco" or "Tak" So I would think that Japanese would pronounce 
it "Taku" (which sounds a lot like otaku:-))However, if it is "Tach" with an 
actual ch sound then Japanese would probably pronounce it "Tachi" which is 
the principle's nickname for Tatewaki in cannon anyway. Tach with a k sound 
make sense to me as it could be short for Tachometer, a device for measuring 
speed of rotation (gelling with the skateboarder aspect of the new character) 
or even Tachyon, a nonexistent particle in Star trek responsible for time 
travel. 

Since at least part of this fic deals with the clash of American and Japanese 
cultures it might actually be a good idea to put some of this confusion into 
the fic.  



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