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09-28-2011, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Jorg View Post
So you'd pronounce "trophy", "torohwi-"?
Correct. That is the closest one can get without using sounds that are not used in Japanese.

It is not only Japanese in which this sort of thing happens. I absolutely had no idea what they were talking about the first time I heard an American pronounce "karaoke" or "kimono". So it is all fair.


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Last edited by masaegu : 09-28-2011 at 01:26 PM.