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[Video] How to pronounce some Japanese cubers names - Sinpei

Zubon

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Why are all the Japanese names written in the more modern Hepburn Romanization of Japanese but Shinpei Araki uses Sinpei?
It is a little strange that he writes the sound 'Shi' the old way as 'Si'.
 

Suraimu

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Why are all the Japanese names written in the more modern Hepburn Romanization of Japanese but Shinpei Araki uses Sinpei?
It is a little strange that he writes the sound 'Shi' the old way as 'Si'.

○ Sinpei Shinpei Shimpei Simpei
× Simpai Shimpai Sinpai haha. XD
 

Zarxrax

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Why are all the Japanese names written in the more modern Hepburn Romanization of Japanese but Shinpei Araki uses Sinpei?
It is a little strange that he writes the sound 'Shi' the old way as 'Si'.

From my experience, a lot of Japanese just don't use hepburn. The other way is probably easier for them. And from an efficiency standpoint, writing "shi" instead of "si" means typing an extra letter just to write the same Japanese character.
 
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