The Tyrant Pax wrote:

Ok. Ok. Maybe in proper Japanese, R's sound like L's. It's possible.  
Their H's sound like F's.  But I do know that it is not always the case 
because I own the subb of Tenchi Muyo and "Ryoko" IS "Ryoko" NOT "Lyoko"! 
 And I have 2 romanized Japanese dictionaries and niether of them have 
L's in them!

Actually, the pronounciation is more of a cross between "L" and "R" (as well as 
"D") than it is towards either one.  If anything, a lot of non-Japanese tend to 
distinguish themselves as such by their pronouciation of "R".

It's romanization that trips things up, and standard romanization schemes tend 
to lean heavily towards "R". 


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