A thing to consider not doing around me

[azurelunatic]

There is a thing that sometimes people do, to be funny or for emphasis or whatever. It is the thing where they substitute the letter L for R in words, such as "VICTOLY" for "VICTORY".

There are many possible places and reasons to have picked up doing this, including the ever-popular "somebody I know was doing it and it seemed like fun".

The roots of this substitution is making fun of people with no distinction between R/L sounds, which is common when people whose first language is Chinese learn to speak English.

Which is why I cringe every time I encounter it, and would prefer that people not do this around me.

Comments

[momijizukamori]

Yeah, my understanding is that it was from either Japanese media translations or random insertion of English words into Japanese media in contexts that don't completely make sense, and most of the people I see using it do it more as a silly/cutesy thing (along with inserting Japanese words into English in contexts that may not make sense)

[azurelunatic]

I'm glad that most of the contexts you see it in are people who mean no harm.