XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   Does anyone (with knowledge of phonetics, phonology)   
        care to comment on how the Anglo-American views about   
      
              Japs can't pronounce L's   (the Japanese convert L's into R's)   
      
                               have changed in the last 30 years or so?   
      
      
   Among those who know linguistics, and the lay public?    Any changes?   
      
      
   Among US-youths, the level of general interest (in the Jp lang)   
                has changed greatly, because of Anime and Jpop (City pop).   
      
   i'm hearing that fewer Americans are studying Chinese now.   
                                                How about Japanese, Korean?   
      
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