Posted by Dan Vine on October 18, 2002 at 10:58:50 from 213.2.151.138 user dan.
In Reply to: Silver Liver-Missee Lee posted by Ed Kiser on October 11, 2002 at 14:42:58:
I read somewhere that in oriental languages, /l/ and /r/ are perceptually part of the same phoneme, so they're more interchangeable.
(Now try swapping the l's and r's in the word "parallel" :)