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About English speakers' pronunciation

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-07 0:15

A Japanese guy: "Ai emu Japaniizu man. Ai emu rukkingu foowaado tsu nowingu yuu. Letto'su speakingu!"

An ignorant prick (most likely American): "Haha! Look at that stupid Japanese speaker trying to pronounce English! Ain't it funny! LOL! brb gonna go masturbate to sum tentacle hentais and them read my mangas"

Hey English speakers! You are just like the Japanese: you can't pronounce foreign languages for shit.

Be it German, French, Finnish, Japanese, Chinese, Telugu or motherfuckin' Esperanto, English speakers simply sound awkward when they try to pronounce them (and believe me they try...). I haven't met (or more like heard) a single English speaker, trying to pronounce Japanese, who didn't try to sound like whatever stupid anime character they decided to ape (even saying that they sound like anime characters is an exaggeration; more like anime characters with downs).

Americans are the worst offenders, although the British and other anglophones are not doing a good job either.

Seriously guys, the world is becoming less and less anglophonic. Already westerners are scrambling to learn the languages of tomorrow: Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian. But no one will take you seriously with your muddled pronunciation, just like you can't take the Japanese seriously and mock them while you dream of fucking their women.

You can't pronounce ü, you can't roll your r's, your l's are weird, your k's and t's are always aspirated, your vowels are nothing but diphtongs which make you sound no better than the Japanese who can't pronounce consonants without attaching vowels to them: you always try to cram the diphtongs everywhere. You're incapable of pronouncing pure vowels, and believe me, it shows. Even the purest e's, a's, o's and u's you can produce have a certain unnatural tang to them.

Look in the mirror the next time you make fun of the Japanese and their pronunciation. Or better yet; record your voice, play it back, and weep.

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-13 13:06

>>49

Japanese is even worse than Chinese where you at least have some opportunity to guess character reading by its side radical

You can do that in Japanese as well actually. 系 and 係 are both pronounced "kei"; 正, 証, 症 and 鉦 are all pronounced "shou"; 青, 精, 静, 清, 錆, 晴, 請 and 靜 are all pronounced "sei"; 辰, 振, 唇, 娠, 震 and 賑 are all pronounced "shin".

>>50

The change of orthography is a highly unlikely event. /cry

I don't understand people like you. English has one of the most beautiful orthographies that expresses its long, colorful history. Why get rid of that? And it is somewhat logical, as >>49 said, but you have to learn some arbitrary spelling rules first. It really does become intuitive later on, though.

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