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04 Nov 2017, 11:33 pm

curiously, my father related a story about the japanese during WW2 which was to do with forming passwords at check points.

the japanese could not pronounce the letter "L" properly, so a password may be "little lucy lied"

the japanese tend to approximate the "L" pheonetic sound with "R" so you get "riddle rucy ried"

the chinese on the other hand have a problem pronouncing "R". "fly lice" for fried rice" etc.

how can they have equally opposing linguistic shortcomings?

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05 Nov 2017, 8:46 am

b9 wrote:

My parents told me the same story about passwords in the Pacific Theater of WWII. You would make up a password like "lollapalooza" because a "Jap" would say "Rah Rah Pah Roozah".

But that thing about how "the Chinese say L for R, and the Japanese say R for L" is....I dunno...probably an urban myth.
They probably both do both things because both nationalities have trouble with the way R and L are deployed in English.

Kinda like how the Japanese have imported many concepts, the words for the concepts, from America. Like "girlfriend", "boyfriend", and "baseball". But in the Japanese language words hafta be consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel. So those words become "girlfriendu", "boyfriendu", and "basahboorooh".

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06 Nov 2017, 2:00 am

their tech is roughly a decade or more ahead of ours in terms of development/advancement. for example, they put active noise cancellation in their cars at least 10 years before we did.

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Great technology and the three peas in a pod symbol. Japanese people are also mostly Sweet Peas.

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