my serbian parents struggle saying the 'th' sound, because that sound doesn't exist in Serbian

and English speakers struggle with a lot of sounds themselves, like the trilled r.
We should never make fun of people for not being able to pronounce a sound - they just grew up used to a different language
#linguistics #etymology #language #japanese #stereotypes

[wiikoolaid]

Wait, Ramen comes from lo mein. This guy making connections I never even considered

[tuca]

Kind-of like how people with a lisp can't say the word lisp correctly

[hoiming]

Ramen is actually from 拉麵 (la mian /Lāmiàn in Mandarin) meaning pulled noodles. Lo mein is 撈麵 is different from the Chinese and Japanese lamian/ramen.

[Clownish.mp]

as a serbian, OH MY GOD. i hate the 'th' sound, i always struggle with words like 'teeth' and 'death' (also you have serbian parents?? i never knew that!)

[hanneslundin]

In Swedish we don’t have the English “j” or j-like “g” sounds. Instead we just use the j-like “y”. So for example, “joke” would be pronounced like “yoke” and “Joe Biden” is pronounced “Yo Biden”

[snai]

i love watching this guy talk about anything he's so smart

[cactusjuiceenthusiast]

that’s some D1 racism coming from the lululemon founder💀

[totallynotpaul]

Lmao, the Lululemon founder is a pretty out of pocket guy.

[rchnda]

Fun fact! The Japanese word for “trans” is “Toransu” (pronounced toh-ran-soo). It was borrowed from the English word Trans but changed because of this exact problem. However, since the Japanese word for Tiger is “Tora”, Tigers have kinda become a trans symbol in Japan as a pun. I guess if you consider this and how the Blahaj has become a symbol for trans people in the west, then Tiger Sharks must be the ultimate trans icon.

[Tristan_lam]

Actually the lo in lo mein is the Cantonese version from the word 捞 lāo which is the word to dredge or to fish up while ra from ramen comes from 拉 lā which means to pull however both men and mein do mean noodle. However men is derived from mandarin 面(mian) and mein is the Cantonese version of that word.

TL;DR lo mein is Cantonese for stir-mixed noodles while ramen is Japanese for pulled noodles

[msjkramey]

Wait... why did he want that though? That's so weird

[cheese_breeze]

did you really just con me into sitting on my bed and saying for two minutes looking like an absolute fool

[efi]

As a Serb, the fact you're also Serbian makes me so happy!! So proud of you!

[deathdrone]

Ramen actually originated from a northern Chinese immigrant making "La Mian" noodles, which is not the same as the southern Chinese noodle "Lo mien", two different noodles that happen to sound similar.

[bishop]

the different ways people pronounce r within the same dialectic groups of english speakers is way more variable than people within each group realizes

[wtfschmuck]

RAMEN AND LOML MEIN MEAN THE SAME THING???!!!!

[SamiTheAnxiousBean]

today i learned you're serbian

neat! as a Bosniac i couldn't tell by voice alone !

[akirachisaka]

I feel like Lululemon feels super intuitive to pronounce in Japanese?
Like it’s just ルルレモン, which sounds almost identical with the English pronunciation.
Meanwhile, “LuruLemon” would be an actual nightmare lol.

[JessieWinitaCook]

Almost every non-anglphone nation struggles to pronounce dental fricatives to be honest, perhaps with the exception of the Spanish, Greeks and Icelanders. Some pronounce "think" as "tink", some as "fink" and some as "sink". Similar goes for "W" - from experience, most Czech people pronounce it as "V", as Czech doesn't have a "W" sound. What's even more interesting, is that Czech people sometimes even mispronounce schwa, as Czech doesn't have a schwa sound (this is true for a lot of other english vowels too, like strut. Czech only has the vowes /iː ɪ ɛ a o u ou̯/, plus the long forms of /aː ɛː oː uː/ and /eu̯ au̯/, in loanwords).

[grotesqburlesk]

also explains why proto indo-european root *lewk- (white; light; bright), which gave light; lūx; λευκός (leukós), became रोचः [রোচঃ] (rōcaḥ; vedic: raucaḥ) in sanskrit because sanskrit frequently turned original l into r