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Originally Posted by masaegu
lol Did I sleep kindergarten through university?
愛 is a two-syllable word, period. It's counted as two in literature where syllable counts matter as in poetry AND it's pronounced as such in the daily lives of us native speakers.
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It's counted as two moras in poetry, not syllables. This is exactly what I was talking about. It's one "syllable" if you look at it as a native speaker of English.
Similarly, would you consider the word はい a two syllable word? I certainly wouldn't.
With that said, if a combination like あい is a monophthong according to Decimus, then how could it possibly consist of two syllables? You guys are mixing up syllablse with moras, plain and simple.
The dipththong thing can go either way in my opinion (I wouldn't say that あい is a dipththong thoguh).
Three simple dipththongs in Japnaese や ゆ よ. Depending on how you say them, you can make them super dipththongy as well.
Masageru, with all do respect please check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_(linguistics)
Look at the Japanese portion of the article and what it says about haiku.