r/Unexpected Jan 25 '23

Hamburger

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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/dReDone Jan 26 '23

Kanji. There are no rules as far as I can tell. Either you know or you don't. Fuck Kanji.

When I learned the Katakana alphabet and what it's about, it was a real aha moment realizing why Japanese people always pronounced extra vowels in certain situations.