It’s amazing how many things happened so quickly, like the goldeneye multiplayer being a thing created over the weekend before launching or something.

There is something very serene about BotW. I was recently looking into some mods to see if I can get back into the game.

My brothers and I went to a neighborhood friend's house every day after school for months because he had an NES and this game!

For us in the west, lttp seemed like such a huge upgrade, because very few people here saw any of the evolution steps inbetween like Neutopia. It's a really fascinating to discover the things we missed in that era.

They do, because the Japanese table of phonemes is very limited compared to English.

But they will typically deemphasis the ru by making it quick and attached to ze.

“ZEru DA”

So, there's a fun fact about that related to the Zelda series. You know how the Hylian language kind of sneaks out in enemy names? Like, Stal- is a prefix meaning skeletal, -fos is a suffix meaning warrior, so a stalfos is a skeletal warrior? And a lizalfos is a lizard warrior? A stalchild is a skeletal child. -orm or -arm means worm creature, like Moldorm.

Well, in the games prior to the N64, geld- meant desert or sand. The geldarm is a sand worm creature, the geldman is a sand man like enemy from Link to the Past. Then in Ocarina of Time there's a race of women from the desert called Gerudo. Hmm.

Yeah but their R sound sits between an R and an L sounds. They don’t have a separate L and R sound. Hence when they transliterate foreign words they use ラリルレロ both for L and R sounds. It’s why Japanese mix up their Rs and Ls when they talk or write a foreign language like English or Spanish. It’s much harder for them to hear the difference since they didn’t grow up hearing L and R as separate sounds. But also the way they learn foreign languages doesn’t help either. Since they use their kana system to learn pronunciations.

But non native Japanese speakers also have a hard time pronouncing the R the Japanese way. It’s like a rolling R but only a single tap to the palate.

Basically. The R sound isn't the same as English's R so it's a bit misleading in romaji, but basically yes.

These things used to be funny and irk me a little, but everyone is on their phone and dealing with life, your mind read it the right way, who really cares.

I actually did proofread a few times. By now I think I’ve had to admit to myself that I may have mild dyslexia, and should see about getting diagnosed. I usually have to read through something multiple times, and even then, typos will remain. I do appreciate you pointing it out though! I’ve updated the title.

Mistakes happen mate. Not everyone can be as perfect as you.