No, of course not. It's about the closest あなた can get to the Japanese pronunciation with English phonemes; why would it? I don't understand what people have against this...
posted １年以上前
Because in the asian language, there is no long a sound. therefore words are incorrect if spoken witj 発言しました sound and are supposed to be pronounced with a short a.
Yes, I understand; I speak Japanese, but the... I don't know, type of a is non-existant in English, as far as I know. Unless my mind is being stupid and playing tricks on me, but I honestly don't mind how people pronounce it. Yes, it's a word in another language. I don't expect everyone to get the pronunciation perfect if they don't speak it. Sorry if this makes no sense, I can't think straight at 2 AM.
No. マンガ can be pronounced either way. I pronounce it with a long A cuz thats how あなた say it in America!! ^^ People prounce アニメ with a short A, but thats wrong. Because 'anime' is short for 'animation'.
I never pronounced it right until two years ago. I finally got into the habit of pronouncing it right a 年 ago. Therefore, i dont have the right to be annoyed.
I had to look up what the long "a" sound was x_x Haven't heard it worded like that since Elementary school and it doesn't really make sense since I take the same amount of time to pronounce it long または short ;P
ANYWAYS, no it doesn't bother me. If they don't know the language how are they supposed to know how to pronounce it correctly and what sounds do または don't exist? I didn't get mad at my dog the first time she peed in the house when she was a puppy. Many of us don't speak Japanese so our mouth muscles have trouble forming sounds that aren't comfortable and/or don't roll off the tongue as easily as in our mother tongue. For a lot of people m-a-nga is もっと見る comfortable than m-ah-nga.
YES. I'm a real stickler for proper pronunciations, spelling, grammar, and language rules. I don't know why, but people misusing language, it's something that's always bugged me. = /
