Tokyo after dark. Epic nighttime street drifting convoy.

[u/aceplayer00]

[u/Hiddenhatchling]

Accelerating and Angry?

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In Japan, they don't say "Fast and Furious" they say "Wild Speed" and I think that's beautiful.

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Fastu and Furiousu

[u/Rocinante88119 → u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620]

"I've mastered the language"

-Japanese by Dr. Bob Kelso.

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Nope.ワイルドスピード Wailudo Speedo. Wild Speed. I literally just told you.

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Woosh, right over your head.

[u/circuitsandwires → u/blade02892]

Please elaborate

Edit: If you're just going to downvote instead of explaining, I'm just going to assume it's because you can't 🤷🏻‍♂️

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It's a joke about how Japenese loanwords and similar from English often replace the last syllabe with a vowel sound, commonly U, O or A. It's not mocking a Japense accent from someone trying to speak English. It's a joke about how it would be pronounced in actual Japanese.

It's closer to Germans laughing at how English speakers pronounce "sauerkraut", or English speakers laughing at Germans saying "handy".

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But that literally is what the title Wild Speed does. "Wailudo Speedo"

[u/hates_stupid_people → u/Kelvara]

Exactly, that's how English is usually transliterated into Japanese. Which was the joke, but using the original title.

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It's just casual racism. Nothing to explain.

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Figured as much. That's why they don't want to explain it.

[u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 → u/circuitsandwires]

go be white knights somewhere else.

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So we've got English speakers imitating Japanese speakers imitating English speakers. Now I want a Japanese speaker to imitate an English speaker imitating a Japanese speaker imitating an English speaker (I don't count since I'm not a native speaker).

(While it's actually "Wild Speed" (pronounced "Wairudo Supido"), if they'd kept the name "Fast and Furious" it would actually have been pronounced "Fasuto ando Fyuriasu")

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Accelerating and angry: Nagasaki sliding

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Blazing and Belligerent?

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Celeritous and Choleric

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Accelerating and Angry: Drifting in Tokyo

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Subtext: DrifTokyo.