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   GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:21:30 JST GeePawHill

   No, wait, what?

   It's pronounced "roo-bee"?

   I been calling it rub-ee this whole time.

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     GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:21:30 JST GeePawHill

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     This is as bad as the whole jay-va/jah-va controversy.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:21:30 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     @GeePawHill I was going to think it weird but then I remembered that it originated from Japan.

     (I have a lot of casual exposure to Japanese phoneme rules through anime (and manga), since sooner or later one winds up trying to understand how non-Japanese words wind up being pronounced the way they are in the Japanese dialog. Sometimes this leads to comedy with translating into/back to English, as people try to work out the correct English/Latin-alphabet version of some non-Japanese name.)

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 09:22:09 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     @GeePawHill For example, one (human) person in a manga I am very fond of has a special supernatural status. The Japanese for it transliterates to 'surei bega' and the term was expected to be some English language term that had been transliterated into Japanese by the manga creator. It took a rather long time (and in the end the word of the creator) to work out exactly what English term it was.

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