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Having heard enough Americans cringe-inducingly mangle Japanese, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I had someone serve me an order of ’guy ohza’ ju
by YurgenJurgensen 2y ago
Having heard enough Americans cringe-inducingly mangle Japanese, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. I had someone serve me an order of ’guy ohza’ just a couple of weeks ago. If the people selling the products can’t even pronounce the names correctly, I definitely don’t want to hear the customers’ attempts.
- GreenWatermelon 2y agoNo, this is just how languages generally work, how loanwords come to be, and how cultures influence each other.
- treyd 2y agoWhat's interesting to me is that a "good enough" approximation of Japanese phonology is pretty easy for native English speakers to express. The issue is just they have to understand the really consistent syllable structure to parse it out of the romaji.
- jhanschoo 2y agoYou have a point, English proper lacks the semivocalic-i after a consonant (as /Cj/), except where followed by /uː/. So also "Bee-ORN" for Björn, and "MA-fee-uh" instead of Italian "MA-fya" for mafia.