<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257737.msg12833687#msg12833687">Quote from: Cassandra LeMay on 11-12-2016, 00:45:29</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Panties are a perfectly normal piece of apparell. Nothing wrong with talking about them unless you think there is something wrong with it - a knave who thinks ill of it.  :D  ;) <br/><br/>Serenade, I think I see what you are getting at. I don't have much of a telent for languages (picking up English took me long enough), but I think I have some idea when the U in Japanese words (as transcribed in Roman characters) is silent.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Is the U actually silent, or is it really just so fast you don't really hear it?<br/><br/>Sorry, I just find languages fascinating.  I started drawing hiragana in a notebook for a while to practice even though I'll never actually learn Japanese in any meaningful sense.