XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: rh@rudhar.com   
      
   Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:17:30 -0700: HenHanna    
   scribeva:   
      
   >   
   >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?   
      
   See Wikipedia, it has a fine article about Japanese phonology, with   
   lots and lots of details. There is no separate r and l in Japanese,   
   they are allophones of a single phoneme.   
      
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