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gmbteach said:
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I can see the Japanese characters.

The Japanese have one consonant that is about halfway between "R" and "L."

So when you use either of those consonants, to a native Japanese speaker, the sound maps to that one consonant, and most of them can't distinguish between the two.

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hurtinbuckaroo said:
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Witch hunt! Fake news! Why isn't the FBI investigating Hillary instead? She's the real criminal! Benghazi! Uranium ONE!!!!!11!!!!!1!!!!oneoneone [/conservolibertarian]
 
Underseer said:
gmbteach said:
View attachment 14828
Click to expand...

I can see the Japanese characters.

The Japanese have one consonant that is about halfway between "R" and "L."

So when you use either of those consonants, to a native Japanese speaker, the sound maps to that one consonant, and most of them can't distinguish between the two.
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The Chinese also have the problem and I don't know why.

My wife insists they have no "r" sound--but they do. Google: "two" = "Èr".

I do agree that the two mapping to one bit is at the heart of things where a certain group consistently makes certain mistakes, though. Consider Chinese speakers and gender: The only gendered words in Chinese are family relationship words. Furthermore, Chinese *never* modifies words. "Waiter" has to be translated as "male waitperson". Thus, if their mother tongue is Chinese they will have the concept "waitperson"--which can map to "waiter" or "waitress". Note that the same thing applies to pronouns--he/she/it are all the same in spoken Chinese. (They do vary in written Chinese.)
 
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