Someone get this person a Pulitzer.

Who are you talking about, Goku or Batman? :P

A lone H in Japanese words is a holdover from phonetic mistranslations that were common in the 1980s and 90s.

What it means is that the written Japanese for Goku translates (in Hepburn) to “Go Ku U.”

The last U means the speaker holds the end of Ku a little longer. This is different from a full-width dash ー meant to extend any sound that came before it, it’s an actual separate character that can be written as う in Hiragana (phonetic Japanese characters) but won’t always be seen when reading Kanji.

In the past, the presence of the U sound after another sound was often miswritten in Roman letters as H because that’s what it sounds like to a lot of people.

Example: Touzai used to be written Tohzai because to the western world, the latter is what it sounds like.

But these “extensions” of a sound can also be written with an accent dash over the previous vowel when written in Roman characters to make the word more readable.

Tokyo is actually suppose to be written Toukyou (To U Kyo U), if you look at the Hiragana spelling of the Kanji. So as a compromise, you can write Tōkyō to properly represent all the sounds presented in the original Japanese word.

(I am far from a Japanese teacher, but this is what I’ve learned over the years.)

The info wars are over. He lost.

They were more than Dabo girls, they were union women.

Single father representation in Anime has gotten so much better.

does this - no one honks

I assure you it can give you three different measurements from the same picture then go on to explain why it’s okay to eat the plywood.

This used to be called being a suck up.

The one time I waited at a bus stop in Germany:

woman comes up and speaks to me in German

Huh?

“Oh, sorry.” proceeds to speak to me in English like nothing happened

Are we abbreviating something into so. now?

He’s the Ray Kroc of streaming.

This is too real to be funny.

FOX: “Roll some B-footage of Trump at Mar-a-lago last year.”

What food group is that fork suppose to belong to?

After raising a barn, Brother Lazarus raised the roof.

Schrödinger did not have a backup cat.

Looks like it found you.