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From: luke@boi.HP.COM (David Luke)
Subject: Re: happy birthday!
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In article <3khp0n$dqr@charles.cdec.polymtl.ca>, shogun@step.polymtl.ca (Simon Kaczor) writes:
|>  smandel@scunix4.harvard.edu (Susannah Mandel) writes:
|>  >        Hello, All. ;)  I have a request to make.
|>  >A friend of mine is having a birthday this Wednesday.  I and several
|>  >others are making a card for him; I should like to be able to put on my
|>  >section the simple sentiment "Happy Birthday!" in a number of different
|>  >languages.  Can you take a moment to give me some suggestions?
|> 
|> In Polish you say : Wesolych urodzin (you put a / on the l)
|> 
|> In Japanese, they say: Tandjoobiwa omedetoo (in roman characters, of 
|> course; instead of doubling the o, it is better to put a hat on the first 
|> o and forget the second one)

Actually, it's "o-tanjoubi omedetou (gozaimasu)".  The question of what is
the "best" way to Romanize it is a hotly debated one, and an issue that
really is moot, since the original poster wanted greetings in the native
script...

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