FiveWeeksOneMinute wrote:Dr. Doom wrote:^^
Would be mocking Japanese. They lack the L sound, and default to their soft R sound.
Chinese lack the R sound, and default to their L sound. "I eat lice" jokes and so on.
Please stop posting forever.
Thanks.
Because? What I just said happens to be true. I studied Japanese for a fair while, the phonological range does not include the clear /l/ sound, so they will quite often seem like using soft Rs when communicating in English.
Chinese, specially Cantonese, is the opposite in that regard. L isn't an unknown phoneme, the reason why so many of their names even use that (Ling, Li, etc), whereas the R sounds aren't really common.