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You also mostly can’t have consonant clusters in Hangul. It’s not a problem for Korean because they don’t have them to begin with. This means that when Koreans
by changoplatanero 4y ago
You also mostly can’t have consonant clusters in Hangul. It’s not a problem for Korean because they don’t have them to begin with.
This means that when Koreans adopt an English word that has multiple consonants not separated by a vowel then they need to add in some new vowels to be able to pronounce it. Thus words like Starbucks have two syllables in English but six in Korean.
- jinwoo68 4y agoCorrect but with a minor correction. Starbucks becomes four syllables in Korean. A vowel (ㅡ) is inserted between the 's' and the 't' in 'star', and also after the last 's' in 'bucks'.
- terrorOf 4y agoI came to say the same thing. wondering how he counted it as six.
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- a1369209993 4y ago> need to add in some new vowels to be able to pronounce it. The fancy/searchable term for this is epenthetic vowels / epenthesis, FWIW.
- robocat 4y agoI though the same thing happened often in Japanese where vowels are added into English words, for example Starbucks becomes Sutābakkusu, or Englishman becomes Igirisu hito.