#i also don't like ㅜ = oo because like... it makes things longer? please embrace ㅜ as u. YKNOW. THE WAY YOU DO WITH URI.

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And What If I Told You. There's No 'W' Sound In 'Wooyoung'

#shrimp thoughts #there just isn't! no 'w'! #it's not 'woo' like the romantic verb! #ever since i took that one month long korean course in 2018 looking at what kpop does to korean romanization has been so painful #like. hobi has ㅓ in his family name and it gets romanized as u but another ㅓ in his given name is eo. ???????? #i also don't like ㅜ = oo because like... it makes things longer? please embrace ㅜ as u. YKNOW. THE WAY YOU DO WITH URI. #i have Never seen 우리 romanized as '(w)ooli' so WHAT'S UP WITH THAT. #and don't get me started on ㅗ. when they romanized jin/soul's name they kinda had the right idea in that it's a more rounded sorta 'o' #compared to ㅓ (during korean classes we called them low o and side o lol) BUT THEN. wy has the 'ou' in his name BUT IT'S ㅓ. #this is all to say your little guy's named uyeong. sorry #i feel like basing the romanization of korean on english is sorta stupid because they're different languages but ALSO because phonetically #english is in NO way consistent. so ㅓis 'u“ (jung) but also it's ”ou“ (wooyoung) and “eo” (hoseok). girl whatcha doing #when it's like. ʌ in ipa. sun + son + young. but it's ONE (1) SOUND. HELL ON EARTH. #post is sponsored by a youtuber saying wy's name with an audible W sound and me being like This Is An Easily Fixable Issue! but also #i do Not believe i can physically point that out to anyone without sounding like a total asshole (see: this post) so #(of course it's all nice and proper in like actual korean romanization systems like the revised one BUT kpop notably does NOT use the #revised romanization... sunmi actually had to explain that her name's not pronounced soon-me. which could have been avoided #if they just spelled it seonmi lol