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Re: "karaoke" Reader Poll

Posted By: Gahalyn, on host 24.71.223.142
Date: Sunday, June 17, 2007, at 02:30:54
In Reply To: Re: "karaoke" Reader Poll posted by Adam Bomb on Thursday, June 14, 2007, at 14:29:53:

> I have been hearing Japanese and Japanese-sounding names mispronounced on TV a lot recently. I've heard "Naruto" pronounced "Nuh-ROO-to", "Hanako" pronounced "Hanna-ko" and "Garu" pronounced "Gare-u". Sometimes it bothers me that they do that.

What's interesting to me is that once you know the basics (each consonant/vowel combo is one syllable) you can really avoid a lot of the blatant mispronounciations like that. Not like English where there are approximately twelfty billion different rules, and an exception to sixfty million of them.

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