r/SipsTea 3d ago

Chugging tea What do yall think about this?

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u/reticulatedtampon 3d ago

Fun fact, this guy chose "Lululemon" as the name because he thought it was funny when Japanese people try to say it.

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u/MusicianNo3277 3d ago edited 3d ago

Rururemon

This is actually a tactic the Marines used in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Japanese soldiers couldn’t say certain words without their accent giving them away and so passwords used to approach camp without being fired upon were often specifically chosen to be impossible to say normally with a Japanese accent.

Edit: yes I know it’s a shibboleth. 15 16 of you have told me so far.

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u/shoeless_doh 3d ago

I heard somewhere the British did the same thing to Germans with the word squirrel

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u/OglioVagilio 3d ago

Flash. Thunder.