20:03 Mar 6, 2020 |
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5 | Yodo River |
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4 | Yodo River (Yodo-gawa) |
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3 +1 | Yodogawa (river) / Yodogawa river |
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Yodo River |
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Yodo River Explanation: I agree on redundancy. I would just say,”Yodo River” or Yodogawa for your river list. |
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Yodo River (Yodo-gawa) Explanation: I would follow a standard approach as above. Put "Yodo-gawa" in brackets and in italics. (BTW, I used to live on both sides of that river; it's very familiar too me, and you can find both examples on signs in the area) |
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Yodogawa (river) / Yodogawa river Explanation: "Yodogawa (river)" or "Yodogawa river" (the answer line above did not allow me to italicize) I think your approach of adding "river" is good but I would do with lowercase as "river" is not part of a proper noun. I would also italicize "Yodogawa" as a foreign name. Since "Yodogawa" is a proper noun, I think it should be one-word as is and "river" can be added to explain about the river and distinguish from Yodogawa-ward. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2020-03-07 01:19:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I think you are translating for non-Japanese speakers living in Japan so please ignore my comment about italicizing. |
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8 hrs peer agreement (net): +1 |
Reference: Yodo River Reference information: https://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/Yodo River/@34.7726559,1... https://www.tripadvisor.co.nz/Attraction_Review-g298189-d324... (Some of the photos show the river name signage put up by MLIT.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodo_River |
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