this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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Showcasing the brazen and nouveau in English communication.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was struggling to figure out why those words were relevant for a minute. Then I figured it out that, if you thought of someone saying the English word in the worst most racist Japanese accent it sounds like those words.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 22 points 1 day ago

Yup. Merry-Go-Round is called merigoraundo (メリーゴーラウンド) or merigorando (メリーゴーランド).