You didn't even notice the bit about the child bride note or the fact that Hash is not a Japanese name , did you? Lucas, that this man is Japanese and he has difficulty getting his tongue round his r's. Serf-demonstlating velsion hele.
Where a joke is made about pronouncing "Rs" and "Ls" incorrectly in Japanese, or other pronunciations. When this trope is used, the letters are often reversed where the sounds they are making are not ones that would cause that problemβe. The above is a bit extreme, but there is some truth to this : Japanese has neither the English R nor the English L β it has a sound that might be best described as a combination between an R and L, note This sound does exist in several dialects of English: it's the alveolar tap used to make the quick "t" or "d" sounds in words like "better" or "rider" in North American or Australian accents; and certain Scottish accents may pronounce R with this sound.
The way in which this sound is pronounced can best be described as a "flicked R", as it requires one to rapidly flick the tongue off the roof of the mouth while pronouncing an "R" soundβthink of trying to say "P r ince of P r ussia" but actually saying "P d ince of P d ussia". The biggest hurdle for Japanese natives is often making the tongue movements necessary for a sound that simply doesn't exist in their native language equivalent foreign phonemes that English speakers struggle with are things like French "r", note A uvular trill made with the back of the tongue against the roof of the mouth, somewhat like a rasped "g" or Welsh "ll" note A lateral fricative made by pressing the tongue against the palate and hissing air past the sides of it.
The same is true of Korean β it has Rs and Ls, but these are different allophones of the same phoneme, which is pronounced as an L when it's at the end of a syllable which doesn't happen in Japanese. Occasionally, even written English signs in Japan will somehow mix up Ls and Rs due to this confusion. Exactly why the creators of Romanization decided to just use Rs for everything is a mystery for the ages. Likewise, there's no sound for "th" in Japanese, so S sounds are used instead.
Unsurprisingly, this is a big hurdle for Japanese natives learning English; e. However, this particular example rarely occurs as a mistake. The Japanese language is made up of "mora", each of which consists of either a vowel on it's own "a" , a consonant followed by a vowel "wa" , or the letter "n" by itself.
