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Thank you all!
“texi” and “thi” are combinations that work.Joel, I mentioned the site, because I think this is site specific setting. I practice at my workplace sometimes, and it doesn’t have any IME (let alone Japanese) installed. Sites like RealKana, iKnow, ReadTheKanji and such don’t require Japanese IME to work, only the correct letter combination. What they think is “correct combination”, that is XD
They want you to answer in romaji? Seriously?
> They want you to answer in romaji? Seriously?
I can only speak for iKnow. You type in romaji, as you would with any qwerty based IME. The text on screen is automatically converted to kana as you type.
Essentially it has its own built in IME, so doesn’t require one to be installed on an OS level.
Oh, I sees. I guess that makes some sense.
On a side note, why exactly does “thi” work? I mean, it works for me too, but why should “thi” become ティ? The English th sound is usually represented by an s- or z-series character.
“Thi” was a suggestion from Japanese friend. He says its’ a “rule for writing”, even gave me a chart: http://www.hachinohe.ed.jp/hens/ad/keyboard/keyboard05.htm
There are “dhi” and “twi” combinations in the chart, so I guess “thi” has little to do with pronunciation, it’s more like all other logical combinations (ti, tei) are already taken.
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