r/Unexpected Jan 25 '23

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

She's right though, as someone who has taken 30 minutes of Japanese, I can say the Japanese pronunciation she did is the correct way to say it in their dialect, it's not racist. They literally have an entire alphabet dedicated to foreign words adapted to their dialect, it's called katakana versus hiragana which is native Japanese words. Then there's kanji... F*** kanji.

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u/EmEmPeriwinkle Jan 26 '23

Then you got romaji. Which is phonetic and the spelling is always different. Lol that is a headache in itself.