AW: Help

[Aaron Gerow]

On Feb 14, 2010, at 3:50 AM, Roland Domenig wrote:

> in the magazine Nippon eiga (which - another pitfall - is often  
> wrongly transcripted as Nihon eiga)

This is actually just as difficult a problem. "Nihon eiga" is how it  
is catalogued in the Diet Library and how most of the libraries in the  
world render it (though some add Nippon eiga as an alternative  
reading). That may be a matter of convention--the US Library of  
Congress, for instance, stipulates rendering $BF|K\(B as Nihon unless  
otherwise specified--but it has also become the conventional reading.  
I always render it Nihon eiga because if my readers want to look up  
the journal in the library, that is what they should look under.


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