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Field Note #5 — Lost in Translation (Sketchbook)

Some Linguistics humor to wrap up my day…

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(Puta means “whore” in Spanish.  While in English the /b/ sound is more firmly voiced and held longer, in Japanese it’s a softer, more “staccato” consonantal sound that’s very close to the Spanish bilabial stop /p/ —so the two come out sounding dangerously similar.)

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