ext_134912 ([identity profile] ronsard.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] gold_panner 2009-12-21 01:05 pm (UTC)

No, I know what you mean. I was trying to give a... counterexample? Because it would weird if I started calling her Lee-ah, people would wonder where the 'a' came from? So if the Japanese name is 'Ria' and we somehow pronounce it as 'Lee', where did the 'a' go?

Whoever did the translation was obviously afraid of people reading stuff into the name ('cause you know, we do). Whore.

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