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Kougeru wrote:

Brittney is legitly bad. She can't pronounce her characters' names properly in most of her shows despite being in the buisness for 10 years. She's an uncaring, bad anime voice actress. I don't watch dubs because most are terrible but I'll be very happy if she doesnt come near this

Dunno why people get too hang up on names. [...examples...] As long as it's not too unrecognizable but close enough.

A voice actor's job is to speak. Pronouncing words correctly (and with proper emotional inflections) is their job. So doing it incorrectly does make them "bad at their job". (And boorish.)

Other people who have "speaking" as a job (say, sportscasters) tend to get names correct. Even if it means "call this 'Daisuke' guy by his nickname, Dice-K".

And it's not like Japanese is filled with phonemes that English speakers are unfamiliar with. Skip the "R/L" thing, and just use the English "R", and you're pretty much there. (We have "TS", we just don't start syllables with it, so that's not something new to learn, just a new use for something we already know how to pronounce.)

As mentioned, something close is fine, but it works both ways.

Although I'd weep if ya guys try to pronounce some of my Chinese friends' original names.

Skip the "R/L" thing, and just use the English "R", and you're pretty much there.

Mikeski wrote:

Skip the "R/L" thing, and just use the English "R", and you're pretty much there.

Actually, using L would be more correct, as Japanese natives never roll their tongues when they speak.

Hopefully you don't mean that in a Black Lagoon sense. But what else can it be but that as that is the only way that "she is a bro" computes

Mikeski wrote:

Skip the "R/L" thing, and just use the English "R", and you're pretty much there.

Actually, using L would be more correct, as Japanese natives never roll their tongues when they speak.