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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I can't type out the pronunciation but have you guys heard American people read Japanese names? My god, it is so weird. Say that to Japanese people and I bet half of the time they don't recognise what it is. The way a foreign language is being butchered is beyond imagination.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The one that keeps surprising me over and over again is Karyohkey instead of Ka-ra-o-ke.

Not sure about names, I feel like I have heard proper pronunciations of Akira and Tanaka in media, do you have some good examples of ones that are frequently wrong?

[–] isyasad 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Even something like "Tanaka" I often hear pronounced like ‹tə 'na kə› rather than like ‹ta na ka›
‹a ki ɾa› becomes ‹ə 'ki ɹə›
Not sure if the IPA is precisely correct in there but the schwa ə and the stress is what I hear oftentimes.

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