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[nursedianaklim.livejournal.com]

This is, perhaps, the stupidest question ever posted here. But it's something I've been wondering about for a while.


Okay, so, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home? Chekhov keeps saying "nuclear wessels" instead of vessels, and as I'm studying Russian now, I'm confused, because it doesn't look like there is a "w" sound in the language. (Unless I am completely stupid.) So what I'm wondering is if this is just absolutely horrid writing on their part or if there is a valid reason why a native Russian speaker would say "wessels" instead of "vessels".




I know, I know, I need a life.

Comments

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was about to explain that phenomenon too. It's so weird, because it's not as if English speakers can't say the flap [ɾ], they use it all the time in words like butter [bʌɾɚ] and ladder [læɾɚ], yet when they see the r written somewhere else like arigatou [aɾigatoː], they read the r like a retroflex English r [ɑɹigɑtoː] (not to mention they also usually don't pronounce the [a] correctly...)

[steppinrazor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that, or they hypercorrect and use the l (had a guy in my Japanese class that'd do that, and he drove me NUTS with all the "aligatou" and "kala"s XD)