Re: [OT} Why is Japanese radio so unbelievably bad?

Sean wrote:
On 7/15/06 8:04 AM, in article
f3cbea9f0b007f313d7f3fddce327636@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dan Rempel"
<drempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
Ben Bullock wrote:
I drove to Chiba today to go to Ikea (pronounced イケア in Japanese, by
the way), [...]
How else would it be pronounced in any language?
A lot of people say "eye-keah".
Around these parts people say something like "eye-key-ah," which I
suspect won't help our reputation as staunch defenders of the English
language.

Why not? We're not defenders of the Swedish language, are we?

Que?

Dan

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