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The proper notation would be "サラリーマン", with a bar between リ and マ which indicates an elongated sound. In fact, writing it as "サラリマン" actually evokes images of
by needle0 4y ago
The proper notation would be "サラリーマン", with a bar between リ and マ which indicates an elongated sound. In fact, writing it as "サラリマン" actually evokes images of a "caricatured western-POV stereotype of a Japanese stereotype salaryman" due to westerners frequently making this mistake.
- totetsu 4y agoThis same sound shift is why the escalator says babI-car and not baby-car
- rcoder 4y agoYep, you're right. My apologies. It has been about 25 years since I actively studied or spoke Japanese, and I was typing on my phone. My explanation was trying for "understandable" but may have veered into "problematically over-simplified," not to mention insufficiently copy-edited.