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Are you sure that Joi and Junsaa are "plays" on Japanese words? I thought they WERE just the Japanese words, and that each individual nurse and officer didn't actually have names.

Junsā is not the same as ''junsa'' -- length matters in Japanese. As for Joi - it sounds different from how I would pronounce ''joi'' - I would pronounce it with a clear syllable break. - [[User:Zhen Lin|振霖]]<sub>[[User talk:Zhen Lin|T]]</sub> 00:17, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that the way '''you''' would pronounce things is the be-all and end-all of Japanese pronunciation. Not to mention, I've heard characters saying "jo-i" AND "joi", both with and without the syllable break.

And also, why does everyone doing romanisation here insist on using bars over letters? Those won't display in the browser I'm using. Why can't we just use double vowels and call Jenny "Junsaa"? Besides the I with the bar over it is fugly and rarely used anywhere but here. --[[User:Ketsuban|Ketsuban]]

Because [[wp:Hepburn|Hepburn romanisation]] is what is commonly used and it suggests macrons, not circumflexes nor doubling. As for '''ī''', I quote "In words of ''Japanese or Chinese origin'', the long vowel '''i''' is written '''ii'''." (emphasis added).

Also, I don't think you'd address a female doctor as ''joi'' any more than you would address a male doctor ''isha'', a teacher ''kyōshi'', your own mother ''haha'' or father ''chichi'' - instead, you'd use the titles ''sensei'' for the former two and ''(o)kā(san)'' and ''(o)tō(san)'' for the latter two. This strongly suggests that ''Joi'' is her name.

As for your browser problem, it may be linked to not having the fonts installed or using Windows 9x. - [[User:Zhen Lin|振霖]]<sub>[[User talk:Zhen Lin|T]]</sub> 01:54, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I just checked the credits and ''Joi'' is actually ''Jōi'', so that makes all this talk rather irrelevant. - [[User:Zhen Lin|振霖]]<sub>[[User talk:Zhen Lin|T]]</sub> 02:06, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)