Anyone who makes fun of eastern Asian languages for not differentiating between L and R has never compared romance languages.
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its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Don’t even get me started on Colonel.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Which romance languages, at that! They’re all different! Haha
Linnce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In Portuguese it’s spelled coronel and pronounced just like that, with the R in the middle. I can’t think of a single word where the L and R interchange. I can’t speak for other romance languages though.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m not thinking specifically of colonel. There are things with Spanish vs Portuguese like plato vs prato, playa vs praia, etc.
Colonel is also actually an example since it uses an L in French but an R in Spanish and Portuguese.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wait until you hear about “boatswain”.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 month ago
I always thought colonel would be pronounced colonel, but it’s colonel instead!