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Why do japanese mix up L and R? Obv they can make both sounds
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:10 PM Author: Trip Rehab Sandwich It’s not a situation like a German who doesn’t have the “th” sound in his language and so needs to replace it with a “Z” sound. Where does the L/R mixup come from? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181612) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:13 PM Author: multi-colored mischievous heaven hunting ground does their arphabet have characters that sound like R or L? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181618) |
Date: August 13th, 2025 12:12 PM Author: Ivory big location They can't make both sounds generally.
In Japanese the sound denoted by "r" is halfway in between "l" and "r", and there is no separate sound denoted by "l". |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:12 PM Author: Balding Demanding Bawdyhouse Chad I don't think they do have both sounds, they have one sound that sounds 1/2 way between L and R e.g. in the name of the city Sapporo the 'R' sound is just the tongue tapping the roof of the mouth, neither an L nor an R but a little of both (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181617) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:13 PM Author: ocher principal's office mad cow disease they don't mix them up, it's only one sound in japanese
the swapping in both directions thing is just a meme |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:18 PM Author: topaz trailer park definitely not "just a meme" that they get them confused when trying to say english words
not just japanese ive heard koreans do it too |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:19 PM Author: Ivory big location They don't "get them confused".
They're just mapping both the "L" and "R" sounds in English to the same Japanese consonant sound, so they don't distinguish between the two. |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:21 PM Author: topaz trailer park maybe its not as common as what youre talking about but i absolutely have heard shit like "lever" being pronounced "revel" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181647) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 3:48 PM Author: Ivory big location all in your head (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49182228) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 4:02 PM Author: topaz trailer park not at all. it was mostly older ones. names especially theyd try to pronounce with proper english l/r sounds. like the example the other guy said about larry/rally
the oldest memory i have of this was a neighbors japanese grandma who would stay with them for months at a time. she could rarely get "levar burton" right and theyd always be giving her shit about it when reading rainbow or star trek TNG was on tv |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:27 PM Author: lascivious sapphire point Was self studying Japanese phonology for a while and this is the answer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181659) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 2:22 PM Author: Trip Rehab Sandwich No, they sometimes really do swap in both directions. I have a Japanese client who pronounces “Larry” as “Rally”. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49182023) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 2:26 PM Author: topaz trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49182033) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:13 PM Author: Ivory big location It's very confusing for them when they try to play SNES or N64 games. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181622) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 4:01 PM Author: Domesticated dashing dopamine lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49182247) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:15 PM Author: internet-worthy nowag den Both sounds are similar (all languages) in that you make them by letting air pass over your tongue with little or no friction in any part of your mouth ('liquids' or 'glides' in phonology) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181629) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:16 PM Author: Electric private investor They do it just to fuck with birdshits (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181630) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:22 PM Author: Arousing black woman saw a jap lawyer with his Arren Edmonds on the wrong feet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181648) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 12:23 PM Author: Vibrant Claret Regret Don't you mean "mix up err and all" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762013&forum_id=2...id#49181652) |