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by lhnguyen09 4461 days ago
The Japanese pronunciation of Godzilla is "gojira". How is that a bastardization?
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toufka 4461 days ago
It's not even just the 'Japanese pronunciation', but the original name of that monster was ゴジラ - 'gojira' (gorilla/kujira (whale)) - which was anglicized into 'godzilla'. There's nothing racist at all about 'jira'.
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