Why did ancient people mishear foreign words so often.Peking raviolis are named after someone who thought Beijing was named Peking because he didnt hear it right.Genies started as some guy who heard arabs say djinn and he misheard it and then he made up a lie about genies living in a lamp. Lol.
Different languages have different sounds that aren't in the listener's language. Chinese and Arabic are particularly cromulent examples.
>>18456456Japanese people still struggle pronouncing the letter "L". Sometimes it's less mishearing things and a combination of people struggling to pronounce sounds or tones of other languages and needing to transcribe said languages into an alphabet that might not provide a real equivalent to those foreign pronunciations.
>>18456466https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ3fRZ6E4P0&t=790
>>18456456They don't "mishear". They just pronounce them in their own dialect and thus naturally incorporated a foreign word into their language.It's not fucking normal to speak with a normal English cadence and then suddenly loudly pronounce MAO ZEDONG like you think a Chinese person would pronounce it. This is borderline mentally ill stuff, if it was actually applied consistently. People wouldn't be able to have conversations anymore.
>>18456576I don't know how the fuck croissant is supposed to be pronounced in any language due to this faux-accent shit.>kwa-saunt>krass-aunt>kwass-on>krass-on
>>18456456It’s much easier for a word to become corrupted when it’s spread through writing or word of mouth and people don’t have instant access to people pronouncing it correctly through the internet.
