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It's more the l than the r, the pronunciation is also otherwise completely different in Japanese, because they don't have consonant finals, only nasals. You end
by microcolonel 10y ago
It's more the l than the r, the pronunciation is also otherwise completely different in Japanese, because they don't have consonant finals, only nasals. You end up with ro-rahn-doh.
- gozur88 10y agoThat's what I was thinking. If he really wanted a name that would be the same in English and Japanese, he would have nixed the "d" at the end and called the company "Rolan".
- yongjik 10y agoI have to wonder if something like this exchange ever occurred: "I named it Roland because I wanted it to sound the same in other languages..." "But, but... English speakers read it as Roland. Japanese speakers read it as rorando." "Yes, exactly. Same thing."