From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 28/06/2024 2:16 p.m., HenHanna wrote:   
   >   
   >  >   kelpie = KerupÄ«   
   >  >   omelet = Omuretsu   
   >  >   golem  = GÅ   
   remu   
   >   
   > this Moron Adam Funk  seems to be repeating:   
   >                Japs can't pronounce L's -- Japs convert L's   
   into R's.   
   >                Japs can't pronounce L's -- Japs convert L's   
   into R's.   
   >                Japs can't pronounce L's -- Japs convert L's   
   into R's.   
   >   
   >   
   > Does anyone (with some knowledge of phonetics, phonology)   
   >      care to comment on how the    most ignorant   
   >      of the White American bigots are still repeating this?   
   >   
   >                Japs can't pronounce L's -- Japs convert L's   
   into R's.   
   >                Japs can't pronounce L's -- Japs convert L's   
   into R's.   
   >                Japs can't pronounce L's -- Japs convert L's   
   into R's.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > this Moron Adam Funk's   use of   [Å   
   ]  [Ä«]   (to indicate Long vowels)   
   >              is also annoying...   
   >   
      
   No, I don't care to comment. I don't like your tone. Are you passing on   
   stuff from old Skumnutz the Jew-hater?   
      
   >   
   >   
   > On 27/06/2024 1:16 a.m., Adam Funk wrote:   
   >  > As I mentioned in another thread a few weeks ago, I've been watching   
   >  > the _Delicious in Dungeon_ anime, with Japanese sound & English   
   >  > subtitles. I noticed that a lot of the monsters & some other bits of   
   >  > D&D-ish jargon are clearly Japanese adaptations of English words. I   
   >  > clearly heard similar-sounding words for "undine" & "dungeon", and   
   >  > I've also collected translations from the list of episode titles.   
   >  >   
   >  > It makes sense to me that they would adapt words for monsters from   
   >  > "Western traditions":   
   >  >   
   >  >   basilisk = Bajirisuku   
   >  >   orcs = ÅŒku   
   >  >   kelpie = KerupÄ«   
   >  >   dryad = Doraiado   
   >  >   cockatrice = Kokatorisu   
   >  >   harpy = HÄ�pÄ«   
   >  >   griffin = Gurifin   
   >  >   golem = GÅ   
   remu   
   >  >   
   >  > and real foods of Western origin:   
   >  >   
   >  >   omelet = Omuretsu   
   >   
      
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