Re: [tlug] Japanese Encoding - which one?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Lyle" writes:

    Lyle> I'm no master of the Japanese language, but to my ears, the
    Lyle> way some old men say it I would say the ending is "ja" and
    Lyle> not "jai".  I've heard the "jai" ending too, but much more
    Lyle> often the "ja" ending.

You see it occasionally even in writing, in the form "no de wa".  They're
all the same grammatically AFAIK.  I don't know what it means, though.

I think Stuart's point may be that the "no jai" form is even more hougen
than "no ja", and thus would be funnier?

It's like, you know, totally!

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