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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by singold on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @08:42AM (#10338415)
OT: In spanish Kajita sounds like Cajita (little box), so there's a joke about this being a PR campaing of McDonalds.

Also Kajita should be happy because of this achievement :P

Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by kragen on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:31PM (#10340671)
Well, it looks like it should sound like "cajita", as in "cajita feliz" ("happy meal"), but actually his name is pronounced [kadʒita], not [kaxita]; think "callita", like a small digging stick, but pronounced with a Rioplatense accent. Japanese transliteration is misleading in Spanish!

(You could kind of make the same complaint about pronouncing "tomato" as [tə'meɪɾoʊ], since the second vowel in the Nahuatl word is very clearly [a], but I think you can make a reasonable case that "tomato" is an English word with several centuries of history whose pronunciation has simply changed, while Kajita is not a Spanish word, but rather the name of a Japanese guy who's in fact not even dead yet. So if you pronounce it [kaxita], you're just mispronouncing it, that's all.)