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  • July 30, 2016 at 9:50 am #49450

    Trey
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    I must admit, so far I have very limited vocabulary and stuff, so I’m going only from sample of size N=2, but still:

    です pronounced ‘des’
    たすけて pronounced ‘taskete’ (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnLGWph0VZ0&feature=youtu.be&t=515 and in bunch of other anime(s? is it animes?))

    So is common pronunciation ‘s’ and ‘su’ only in some cases? Or the other way around and I just have bad sample?

    Thank you for help :)

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    July 30, 2016 at 6:59 pm #49455

    Joel
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    Basically, it’s pronounced whichever way makes it easier to hit the next syllable. As, the power that generations of lazy speakers has over etymology.

    すし, for example, is “sushi”, otherwise you’re trying to say “s-shi”.

    July 31, 2016 at 9:05 am #49459

    Trey
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    Hm, I guess I need to be more lazy to get into Japanese ;)

    Thanks, you are very helpful :)

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