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panvani · 2 years ago

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I will say I'm not the best at foreign orthography but I am still shocked whenever someone very badly mispronounces a romanized Japanese word given that romanized Japanese is very common esp in online spaces and Japanese (Hepburn) romanization is incredibly straightforward and intuitive for English speakers

#logxx #Like Gavriel was giving me shit for not getting German orthography which I will grant is well made but not actually #Esp intuitive to English speakers. Esp because it involves a number of exceptions or changes in pronunciation #Based on position #The only time I can think of where Japanese romanization is inconsistent is the use of ou #Which is generally a long o sound rather than an o u (oh oo) sound #But other than that I mean. Hepburn is very good at intuitively communicating Japanese phonology to English speakers #And Japanese just doesn't have that many sounds. And rly only 2 sounds (initial ts and the tapped r) aren't present in English #The initial ts is pretty easy for Eng speakers to learn ime and the tapped r can be replaced w an l to sound almost the same

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