It’s an older article, but the point stands!

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    22 years ago

    That’s the japanese. They like to put foreign words into their own syllables. I call it katakana English.

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      22 years ago

      Yeah it makes perfect sense once you realize there are almost no lone consonant phonemes in Japanese.