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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (3 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.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I had a (white American) friend who insisted on pronouncing every Japanese word he got to in a sentence with the proper heavy Japanese accent/pronunciation, and he sounded like a fucking idiot. It's a strange phenomenon.

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I have not, but now I am interested. Any idea where I could hear the difference between the correct Japanese way and the butchered American way?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.