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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

well.. not really, it's the romaji spelling of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

of course, how else would non Japanese speaking people read it? Also the country names are on the easier side of pronunciation, so not much is lost when using romanji, it's not like in other SEA languages where tones are lost in Latin spelling