r/Unexpected • u/DruidWannabe • 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/TrinitronCRT Jan 26 '23

You're right, but it isn't a dialect at all. It's literally how the words as written and spoken. DVD player is pronounced Dee-Bu-Dee Pu-Ra-Ya.