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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Ramen should not be spelled with an R nor pronounced with an R sound. It is a huge mistake. It’s LAMEN.

Ramen should not be spelled with an R nor pronounced with an R sound. It is a huge mistake. Ramen should not be spelled with an R nor pronounced with an R sound. It is a huge mistake.

http://www.rameniac.com/forum/viewthread/83/

I am on a campaign to get the world outside Japan to start spelling ramen as lamen, it’s correct spelling, and to get people to say the word as “la men” it’s correct way, not the Japanese mistake of RAMEN. Since the Japanese do not have a R sound or R letter in their culture, they mistakingly changed the word they took from the Chinese in China and HK and Taiwan and turned it, incorrectly I might add, into RAMEN. No way. It’s lamen, always was and always will be.

So how to get the world to wake up and say the word and spell it correctly.
In English. In nihongo, it’s fine, in katakana hiragana, fine. But not in English: ramen is wrong wrong wrong. We don’t spell LOVE as ROVE, we don’t spell LUCK as RUCK and we don’t spell Linda and Rinda, do we? So we should change ramen back to the correct way. The Japanese made a collosal mistake. it’s not too late to change it in English.

Anyone want to help with this humorous yet serious quixotic crusade? It’s not anti-Japanese. I love Japan. Been there 5 years. love to eat “ramen” there. But in NYC and LA it should be spelled Lamen and called Lamen.

email me with help offers and ideas:

reporter.bloom@gmail.com

Danny

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