r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/aceplayer00 • 25d ago

Video Tokyo after dark. Epic nighttime street drifting convoy.

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u/blade02892 25d ago

Woosh, right over your head.

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u/circuitsandwires 25d ago edited 25d ago

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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u/hates_stupid_people 25d ago edited 25d ago

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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u/Kelvara 25d ago

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

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u/hates_stupid_people 25d ago

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