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    5 days ago

    every language says ‘a’ like ‘ahh’, in English it’s ‘ayy’ which sounds closer to ‘e’ and the English ‘e’ sounds like ‘i’ in Turkish, and Turkish is phonetically accurate like Japanese, where you can see how it works out with the words ‘istanbul’ and ‘anime’, but English is weird again by prolonging the ‘e’ at the end of anime

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        Fuck I accidentally used vowel harmony with Lois, you’re correct, I am wrong when I used Lois as an example.

        I am struggling to find an example where a single letter being switched allows you to full comprehend how to pronounce Yaoi

        Let’s make up an exercise

        The ‘a’ in Yaoi is pronounced the same as the ‘a’ when you say ‘ahhh’ in an exasperated tone

        The end of Yaoi Sounds similar to ‘ie’ in English, so ‘oi’ => ‘(w)ie’

        So, it becomes like:

        Yahh-wie