(02-10-2019, 01:08 AM)Labster Wrote: I guess the extent of this is that I really don't like the macrons (#giletsjaunes) on the vowels; seeing the multiple letters for long vowels makes me take the time to pronounce them.
That's actually kinda the point. Hiragana and Katakana typically each represent a single 'beat', but the moment you hit a long vowel, that's 'two beats' instead of just one; you pronounce the vowel normally, only exactly like as if it was doubled-up in duration.
That's why Ryo-Ohki's name is typically romanized the way it is - it's the easiest way for English speakers who are not used to Japanese long vowels to render the phonetics properly.