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New romanization just dropped (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Hatchet@kbin.social to c/japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz

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[–] qwertyasdef@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I think that's a British influence. Rs in English words tend to get transcribed into katakana as long vowels to resemble British pronunciation, like parking → パーキング or art → アート. For a Japanese person who hasn't formally learned a romanization system but knows a decent amount of these English → Japanese word pairs, it seems pretty reasonable to try to reverse the process by turning long vowels into Rs when writing Japanese in Romaji.