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Mr_hulk88 posted...

I mean..I'll put this out there, japanese is by no means the only language americans can't pronounce correctly (or even close to the phonetic sound). So I don't know why you'd be so conflicted about the word karaoke in particular.

I guess because I'm full Japanese, raised in a Japanese household with Japanese speaking parents in a state with the most Asians per capita, and thus know the language well enough to be a bit annoyed by such horrid mispronunciation? I know that so many words get mispronounced all the time. And I'm sure that people of those cultures cringe a little inside too when they hear the verbal butchering of their language.

But mainly like I said, because it's so horribly mispronounced. I'll take an-ee-may, kah-muh-kah-zee, foo-gee, and all that other shit without blinking an eye.