My girlfriend: Why does Toyota keep naming their cars things that would be hard for a Japanese speaker to pronounce? Like "Prius."
Me: They put "R" in there.
She: Japanese doesn't have the "PR" sound.
Me: Nevermind "PR", it doesn't even have the "R" sound of English.
She: I mean it doesn't have the P+R combination.
Me: It doesn't even have the P+Any Consonant combination. Japanese doesn't have those kinds of consonant clusters.
She: Yeah.
Me: They don't have the foresight to name the car something that would be especially easy to pronounce, like the "Toyota Kaka."
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