Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tilde Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Japs can't pronounce L's (the Japanese convert L's into R's) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 22:19:36 -0600 Organization: squiggle Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 06:19:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="beb89e4e787ccba64d80b7d2f531d016"; logging-data="389158"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX188glmCwKw1/mc5BeDJx4bi" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.14 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MmjuTRkCiOT4VPXxY8z4pZr7TDY= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1299 HenHanna wrote: > > 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) "japs" ????? really?