I've taken some Japanese too, and everyone I hear someone add an "s" on to the ends in order to form a pluiral for samurai, or manga, or... well, lol. One peeve I had with a British show about Japan that Terror had a while ago was the host insiting on calling one a "sam-yew-rye" (his essential, phonetic mispronounciation). It was a toss-up between tossing my cookies and laughing (because if you don't laugh, you cry--well, me, anyway, lol).
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Date: 2006-11-07 08:34 pm (UTC)