I am hanging out with a cis dude who is a big "manga" fan (he pronounces it in exactly the way you think) and has already made at least 1 racist joke and keeps talking about how much he loves the most basic shit imaginable

I want to do a murder

@junebug I... the thing is I actually can't tell if this is the "mango-with-an-a" or like OVERLY CORRECTLY saying it.

Both of these are horrible dudes but they're different horrible dudes.

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@Draekos @junebug i used to attend an anime club with a dude who insisted on pronouncing anime with an "ah" sound for the a

@Draekos @junebug he never corrected others but he always pronounced it that way himself. never made a point of it either

also the dude was like, a couple decades older than me probably, i think a "former student who still lives locally" type, he was probably an anime watcher from vhs times so maybe that's just how it was said when he got into it

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