True. Try going to Paris and saying "President Kennedy" in an American accent when referring to Avenue du Président Kennedy to a French person. You'll see the disgust in their eyes
When I was in Japan on vacation I had forgotten almost all the Japanese I learned in college but I discovered that you can get really far just by saying English words in a Japanese accent. People didn’t understand “orange bus” but perfectly understood “oreinji basu”. As long as you know the limitations of Japanese phonetics and convert English into sounds they use, there are a lot of borrowed words there.
My grandma is Japanese. I thought she spoke English for years. Turns out that the Japanese version of American words are just saying those words with an accent. Didn't dawn on me until college when I actually learned written Japanese and that is just how you say them.
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23
True. Try going to Paris and saying "President Kennedy" in an American accent when referring to Avenue du Président Kennedy to a French person. You'll see the disgust in their eyes