A suspension for this?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by javadog

Lidicurous would probably be closer. I have many Japanese acquaintances and friends and have flirted with the idea of picking up a little Japanese, so as not to be so useless on a future trip to Japan. They can pronounce L’s and R’s just fine, but phonetically their words are broken up into 50 or 60 syllables and there are a lot of English words that don’t lend themselves to speech patterns using those same syllables. It’s complicated.

Most Japanese words that I've run across are not much longer (syllable-wise) than most English words. I'd say that their words are mostly 1-6 with a few in the 7-10 range. Very few are much longer than that. And pronunciation is mostly very simple. Most syllables are 2 letters (a few are 1 or 3) and most of the time, every letter is pronounced. And the pronunciation at least for the vowels is the same as for Spanish, Latin, etc...
a - ah
e - eh
i - ee
o - o (like "go")
u - oo

To get other sounds, you may combine multiple vowels
ai = ah-ee which sounds more like "eye"

There are a few instances where a letter will be silent.

sukiyaki which you might think would be pronounced soo-kee-yah-kee has a nearly silent u, so it comes out more like skee-yah-kee.

Syllables of Japanese
wa ra ya ma pa ba ha na da ta za sa ga ka a
-- ri -- mi pi bi hi ni -- chi ji shi gi ki i
-- ru yu mu pu bu hu nu -- tsu zu su gu ku u
-- re -- me pe be he ne de te ze se ge ke e
-- ro yo mo po bo ho no do to zo so go ko o

-- rya --- mya pya bya hya nya --- chya jya shya gya kya --
-- ryu --- myu pyu byu hyu nyu --- chyu jyu shyu gyu kyu --
-- ryo --- myo pyo byo hyo nyo --- chyo jyo shyo gyo kyo --

[javadog]

A guy I once knew bought me a book on katakana, so that I could develop a little bit of speaking ability. I never got very far with it. I was fluent in several languages when I was a kid; as an adult it comes much harder. It would take a lot of work to learn Japanese, even to speak it. Reading it just would be Beyond my capabilities at this point.

I can write yo, shi, mu and ra... Only because they make up the name of a company I’m very familiar with.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

Let me see, They came to see Angel Cabrera hit his 500th home run and Shoei Ohtani the Japanese guy that is going to win the AL MVP award comes up to bat a hit his 40th home run of the season. Then he goes on to pitch a winning game. The homer guy on the Mic does his best rice accent to belittle him and he wonders why he got suspended. I watched the game and saw history

[stevej37]

^^^
Belittle him by saying "be very, very careful pitching to him"?
You know nothing about baseball.

[wdfifteen]

He got suspended for that? That was a rice accent? It sounded like Elmer Fud to me. Was he making fun of people with a speech impediment?

Taking offense is a choice. Jeezes, if I got my panties in a wad every time someone made a dumb hillbilly joke, or a “typical clueless man” joke, or laughed at my dancing my junk would be so twisted up it would take an hour to pee.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

Let me see, They came to see Angel Cabrera hit his 500th home run and Shoei Ohtani the Japanese guy that is going to win the AL MVP award comes up to bat a hit his 40th home run of the season. Then he goes on to pitch a winning game. The homer guy on the Mic does his best rice accent to belittle him and he wonders why he got suspended. I watched the game and saw history

That would be Miguel (Miggy) Cabrera. I call him Hugo.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

He got suspended for that? That was a rice accent? It sounded like Elmer Fud to me. Was he making fun of people with a speech impediment?

Taking offense is a choice. Jeezes, if I got my panties in a wad every time someone made a dumb hillbilly joke, or a “typical clueless man” joke, or laughed at my dancing my junk would be so twisted up it would take an hour to pee.

You're old, it probably takes you an hour to pee anyway. 😂

I hope I didn't offend you.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by masraum

You're old, it probably takes you an hour to pee anyway. ��

I hope I didn't offend you.

It only takes about 15 minutes - every hour.
Old guy jokes… I guess it’s inevitable.
Currently I do not choose to be offended. I may change my mind at any time, depending upon discovering any financial benefit copping an attitude might afford me.

[cantdrv55]

He got off light with a suspension. Imagine his penalty if the player was black and he spoke in ‘hood speak. BLM would be up in arms.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by cantdrv55

He got off light with a suspension. Imagine his penalty if the player was black and he spoke in ‘hood speak. BLM would be up in arms.

But he didn’t and probably never would.

I think his comment was not intentionally insulting. Dumb, yes. It was a bone-headed mistake and he probably knew it before he finished saying it.

It’s too bad, too. Jack is (was?) pretty much loved and respected by all of baseball as noted by Ohtani himself.

[cantdrv55]

I agree that he wasn’t intentionally trying to insult but BLM wouldn’t care. They’d have him fired and force the station to conduct sensitivity training at the least, after the protests and possibly riots.

[Crowbob]

Definitely.

That’s why he was canned. Baseball, Bally Sports and everybody else even peripherally involved wanted nothing to do with any backlash, or even potential backlash.

The comment was pretty benign, IMO, but the headache that could have resulted from it would be horrendous.

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

The homer guy on the Mic does his best rice accent to belittle him and he wonders why he got suspended.

You do realize how many insensitive things you used in just this sentence alone?

A rice accent?
Sriously?

Or calling some one a homer guy?
Common man...

Then you used the word belittle, that is disparaging to the vertically challenged.
There are other words in this day and age that should be used instead.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

You do realize how many insensitive things you used in just this sentence alone?

A rice accent?
Sriously?

Or calling some one a homer guy?
Common man...

Then you used the word belittle, that is disparaging to the vertically challenged.
There are other words in this day and age that should be used instead.

We're also going to have to destroy all black and white film and movies! Maybe we should just colorize them all. Wait, you can't call it that, "colorize," because that will trigger some folks.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

You do realize how many insensitive things you used in just this sentence alone?

A rice accent?
Sriously?

Or calling some one a homer guy?
Common man...

Then you used the word belittle, that is disparaging to the vertically challenged.
There are other words in this day and age that should be used instead.

Just feigning (aka trash talking) the same reason that Jack Morris (the homer) said what he did in the first place.
America's game is being taken over the by the Japanese dude up to bat who already hit 40 home runs and will have pitched better than he ever did by the end of his career.

[Crowbob]

Hugo hits a homer!

#500.

[speeder]

The bottom line is that racist, “slant eye” humor was never funny in the first place. Not 50 or 60 years ago and certainly not in 2021. The guy knew exactly what he was doing and anyone who says they don’t understand it is either lying or stupid.

Fk that guy and all of the other idiots with microphones.

[bkreigsr]

how about a suspension for this ???

[Racerbvd]

He got off light with a suspension. Imagine his penalty if the player was black and he spoke in ‘hood speak. BLM would be up in arms.

Well, white liberal politicians do that regularly and try and sound southern, the hilderbeast did it more than once. It was amazing how some of their accents varied depending on where they were and who they were speaking too.

Originally Posted by bkreigsr

how about a suspension for this ???

Actually, that is bagged.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by speeder

Fk that guy and all of the other idiots with microphones.

Francis, you know what I'm gonna say.