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To me names of things are like pronouns, why would you change it? Feels weird to me. Though I guess it's weird we didn't do that a lot of Chinese dishes. Soup
by tayo42 3y ago
To me names of things are like pronouns, why would you change it? Feels weird to me.
Though I guess it's weird we didn't do that a lot of Chinese dishes. Soup dumplings instead of Xiao long bao. Idk how to even properly pronounce that.
- imp0cat 3y ago> Idk how to even properly pronounce that. And there's your reason why we say dumplings and not xiao long bao! :)
- hnick 3y agoI think a big part is that Japanese is a lot easier to pronounce for westerners. We won't get it fully right but there are no tones and it transliterates to English pretty well, compared to pretty much every other Asian country.
- ajmurmann 3y agoThe "X" in general is like a "chi" with a lisp.