bob h <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:
: :-D  Sorry, I saw a great opportunity to have some fun and couldn't pass it
: up.  :-D

  Having studied some Japanese it's not strange to me anymore that they
don't distinguish very well between r and l.
  In fact, the syllables ra, ri, ru, re and ro are not pronounced neither as
with an 'r' nor with an 'l' as in most western languages, but a kind-of
in-between sound.
  When translitterating foreign words to katakana, both l and r are written
with ra, ri, ru, re or ro.

  By the way, Japanese is a very interesting language. If someone wants to
learn an exotic foreign language which is not too difficult, I recommend
Japanese. It's surprisingly easy to learn (specially compared to its
neighbour language, Chinese, which I think is extremely difficult).

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