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by ehnto 954 days ago
You might find Japanese interesting, they invented a whole alphabet for loan words, and Japanese doesn't always have the phonetic range to pronounce things as it would sound in the language it was loaned from, and they also make certain aesthetic decisions when loaning it. You COULD say Smart Phone as Sumarto Fuon or a few different ways, but it is Sma Ho in Japan, because that's just ehat caught on when it was introduced. Probably by a marketing campaign for that word in particular.