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syllabic r (Score:0)
I guess the 'r' acts as a syllable itself, though. "errrrrh"
I wonder what all in English is difficult for non-English speakers. I'm sure the 'r' sound is, for one, as that seems to differ in a lot of languages (English (even American vs. British can be different), French (who sometimes approximate English 'r' with a 'w'), German (trills), Spanish (like a soft 'd'), Czech ("rzh" as in Dvorak), Chinese (a mixture of l and r) that I can think of all have different 'r' sounds).
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I guess he was thinking of Japanese. Remember that joke, which, if I remember it, asks a Japanese to repeat 'Flied lice' knowing they will say what sounds like 'Fried rice'.