• CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      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?