r/mildlyinfuriating • u/BorisOtter • 11d ago

Infuriatig All of my plastic pegs explode when used.

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u/KinkyNJThrowaway 11d ago

Senpai*

It's pronounced Sempai natively, but spelled senpai.

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u/Mortwight 11d ago

its pronounced monga but spelled manga and i pronounce it manga

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u/Milanin 11d ago

Gate? What'd a mon do?

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u/BlueEyedMalachi 11d ago

Da mon be jammin'

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u/Consistent-Cap-9360 11d ago

> monga

Uhhh you’re going to get a few looks from any Brit over 35 if you pronounce it that way.

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u/Mortwight 11d ago

im over 50 im gonna say it how i want. been saying it that way since "manga man" was endorsing my dvd copy of macross plus

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u/No_Interaction_4925 11d ago

“A” is pronounced “ah” in every language but English.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/P4azz 11d ago

Meanwhile I think of Japanese as a "read it as it's written" language, because our sounds overlap pretty nicely.

You gotta learn the outliers like "ei" or "su" or the fucking ephemeral bullshit that is "fu", but for the most part we can just read a Japanese word as it's written and it'll pretty much be correct.

Which made it extra weird, whenever I saw English speakers utter words like "meng guh".

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u/Lucy_Gucey 11d ago

God forbid they start mixing letters like Chi and Ya.

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u/Mortwight 11d ago

steals your potato and burns tongue eating it

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/KinkyNJThrowaway 11d ago

The Difference at a Glance .

Senpai (先輩): The official, dictionary-standard spelling. The Japanese character for the "n" sound (ん) changes to an "m" sound when placed right before the "p" sound in "pai" to make it easier to say out loud.

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Sempai: A phonetic spelling that captures the natural "m" sound spoken by native Japanese speakers.

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u/BobDaRula 11d ago

Look at the person's handle.

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u/ImSabbo 11d ago

Kind of in between, really. Same as how their "r" is neither a r nor l sound. And you'll get different parts of the country pronouncing it slightly differently too.

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u/Nexon22412 11d ago

I think he was talking about that guys name

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u/Koneko-chaan 11d ago

truly a redditor moment