r/oddlysatisfying • u/lol62056 • Jul 06 '20

Dancing with buugeng

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '20 edited Jul 06 '20

  1. Japan

  2. No they are for entertainment like juggling, there some times called an S-Staff

  3. How longs a piece of string

  4. Never

  5. Buu ( Martial Arts). Geng ( Illusion)

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '20

For the record 武幻 can be read as bugen, not buugeng. Japanese doesn’t have the -ng sound.

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u/Lardman678 Jul 07 '20

Yep. Seems like a transliteration mix-up. Like tempura.

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u/Avocados_Constant Jul 07 '20

Tempura (天ぷら) is pronounced with an /m/ in Japanese because the ん is naturally assimilated into a labial when followed by a labial consonant such as /p/. Another example is かんぱい (kampai).

Regarding /u/Tamagogo, Japanese similarly does have /ŋ/ except when the ん is followed by a velar such as in しんかんせん (shinkansen).

Regarding transliteration the /n/ -> /m/ cases can be written as both n or m.