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Originally Posted by Ookami Blue
Okay I can get blasted out of the water for saying this but it has been bugging me sense the first part of City at War.
I by no means know tons about Japanese culture or anything, but I watch anime and I thought that "r"'s in Japanese are pronouced as "l"s.....
So in fact Karai should be pronouced "Ka-la-e" or something simliar....
Kind of like how on Inu Yasha Kirara is pronouced "Ki-la-la"
I could be wrong..... but I had to say something its been driving me nuts *lol*
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I do know Japanese culture, having lived in Japan and all. I won't say I'm a PERFECT source as it WAS years ago, but the pronunciation of Karai sounded correct to me...it's not that r sounds like l but that l and r are just interchangable to the point that usualy you can't tell the diffrence when you say it. I mean try saying Cal-eye normaly (or quickly without putting much thought into how you say it), without putting emphasis on the L and then do the same with Car-eye. You'll notice while they might not sound exactly the same they sound just enough alike that they can be VERY easily confused with eachother. The L/R thing is ESPECAILY apparent in a name like Leni/Reni.