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>Remember, the Japanese are the people who say "n" because they're too lazy to say "no." "n" is just as long as "no", so the only reason they do that is because it's easier to say. >How in the hell does removing a syllable make a word harder to say? It's a lot easier to go from the "a" sound to the "t" sound without having to move your tongue into position for the "n" sound in the middle. Glottal stop. The pronunciation of pattsu is not the same as patsu. >It has *one* more stroke, and besides, we're talking about ease of speech here, not ease of writing. Abbreviations also exist to make writing easier. >If you're really going to be that god damned picky, I'm going to count the "p" sound and the "tsu" at the end as part of the word "Sports." Why would there be any reference to the first word when the second word already begun? Also, you're hardheaded. A very farfetched idea about an abbreviation that doesn't really make sense unless you really stretch your mind versus a bastardisation of an English word whose meaning got corrupted, which is something that has happened before (bloomers, gravure, cunning). Which is more likely?
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