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Question to Teacher: How come ファックス isn't FUAKKUSU?
Course 2 Lesson 3: Which 'Item'
Question to Teacher: How come ファックス isn't FUAKKUSU?
Course 2 Lesson 3: Which 'Item'
| Ron | Post Date: 2002-07-13 10:18:38 |  save to notebook | saved questions | ||
 member since 2002 Apr 24 Questions: 12 Comments: 2 | In the Japanese katakana for fax, the first symbol is Fu yet the spelled out word is Fakkusu rather than Fuakkusu. Does this happen to other words, or is this a singualar situation. Thanks Ron | ||||
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| JFZ_George | Post Date: 2002-07-16 04:25:46 | ||
 member since 1997 Aug 25 Questions: 22 Comments: 2701 |
Well you have to look at the symbol being used. The first symbol is ファ (Fa) and NOT フア (FU A). That is one of the Katakana Compounds. The second portion of the symbols is smaller than the first and all the other Katakana in the sentence, well except for the ッ which is the the double consonant KK used in ファックス (FAKKUSU). So the answer to your question is: Yes this is common but it is not a special thing to look out for since your didn't probably notice that a Compound Katakana was being used.
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