Yeah, that's a closing L.

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Jun 4, 2020
8:00:16pm

SinkingQuffa Walk-on

Falcon does have some funky consonant combinations even for English.

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SinkingQuffa

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the_byu_flash

6/4/20 6:44pm

RE: Just saw a Tesla with the license plate “Tesra”. An Asian lady was driving, and

byuluvr

6/4/20 6:44pm

Yes. But since she put the license plate on her own car. You're probably ok.

Blue Ghost

6/4/20 6:45pm

No. This can't be true

TNT

6/4/20 6:46pm

Maybe her rines were crossed

TNT

6/4/20 6:46pm

RE: Just saw a Tesla with the license plate “Tesra”. An Asian lady

Zaphod

6/4/20 6:46pm

The only racist jokes I know, I heard from my black, Mexican, or Japanese

CougarTwins

6/4/20 6:55pm

Yeah my black parents are the worst with racist jokes.

coug almighty

6/4/20 7:06pm

There's a difference between laughing at yourself and laughing at someone else

Tricky

6/4/20 7:11pm

I know that Eddie Murphy's bit on why Asians have the eye shape they do wouldn't fly now.

No touching

6/4/20 8:18pm

Agreed. We had a black kid on our wrestling team who constantly asked me to

Santos L. Halper

6/4/20 7:36pm

It's really a Japanese thing, not an Asian thing. Chinese uses the "L" sound

chilango

6/4/20 7:03pm

I don't know - my Chinese SIL can't say her L's either.

Santos L. Halper

6/4/20 7:34pm

I think the English L is a bit of a different animal than the Chinese L.

SinkingQuffa

6/4/20 7:46pm

Maybe it’s only hard in conjunction with another consonant, as in “close”. They

chilango

6/4/20 7:51pm

That's probably right. I don't think Chinese uses L as a closing sound either.

SinkingQuffa

6/4/20 7:54pm

That’s weird, since Li (or Lee) is one of the most common surnames in China,

chilango

6/4/20 7:49pm

My SIL is from Shenzhen, and their family couldn't name their dog "Falcon" like

Santos L. Halper

6/4/20 7:58pm

Yeah, that's a closing L.

SinkingQuffa

6/4/20 8:00pm

Sounds like the issue isn’t the L sound itself, but the combo with the C, and

chilango

6/4/20 8:26pm

It's sad Mr Magloo has been banned as reruns. 🙁

SinkingQuffa

6/4/20 7:40pm

It's a Korean thing, too.

Boxey

6/5/20 2:57pm

I know of a Japanese guy that had a Lexus. Plate was Rexus.

sanitarium

6/5/20 2:42pm

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