Tag: bilabial stop

• July 10, 2019

  Field Note #5 — Lost in Translation (Sketchbook)

  Some Linguistics humor to wrap up my day… (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.)