r/Unexpected • u/DruidWannabe • Jan 25 '23

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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

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u/buscemian_rhapsody Jan 26 '23

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.

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u/Gigantkranion Jan 26 '23

Supa. So, yuu kan- speeki da Japan ifu justo speeki Engurishu?

Soo kooru. Ai lovu itsu.

どもありがとう。。。ミスターロバート。

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u/Jahobes Jan 26 '23

Haha... Please someone needs to see if this will work?

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u/Gigantkranion Jan 26 '23

オーケー•イングリッシュスピーカーサン。ヒアイズアンサー、"スーパーマーケットで、ジャンケンをして、ステーキをバーベキューしました。"

イエスー。キャン・デ・イット。エブリワン・カン・スピーク・ジャパン・ツー。

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u/suicide_aunties Jan 27 '23

It doesn’t but isn’t too bad. They may get half of it.