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[[Fleece Tyler]] is not a legendary freestyler like it sounds. He is actually just an extremely obscure internet meme that only freestylers are likely to have encountered, while using [https://translate.google.com/ Google Translate] to translate Japanese freestyle-related web pages (such as [http://freestyle-sk8.com/ freestyle-sk8.com]) to English.  
The name [[Fleece Tyler]] sounds like a legendary freestyler, but he is actually just an extremely obscure internet meme that only freestylers are likely to have encountered while using online translation services<ref>[https://translate.google.com/ Google Translate]</ref> to translate Japanese freestyle-related websites, such as [[Masahiro Fujii|Masahiro Fujii's]] [http://freestyle-sk8.com/ freestyle-sk8.com], to English.


This mistranslation occurred due to Google Translate incorrectly separating the katakana 「フリー」 (furi-) from the 「スタイル」 (sutairu) in 「フリースタイル」 (furi-sutairu). Instead, it separated it into 「フリース」 (furi-su) and 「タイル」 (tairu), which phonetically resulted in [[Fleece Tyler]], in English.  
The mistranslation occurred because the katakana 「フリースタイル」 (furi-sutairu) was incorrectly being separated into 「フリース」 (furi-su) and 「タイル」 (tairu), which phonetically resulted in [[Fleece Tyler]], in English.


In short, [[Fleece Tyler]] is "Freestyle"!
So, in short, [[Fleece Tyler]] IS "Freestyle"!


The original mistranslation was corrected in Google Translate sometime in 2016, but [[Fleece Tyler]] still lives on in other places, in our hearts, and on this page.
{| class="wikitable"
|<b>Katakana</b>||<b>Romaji</b>||<b>English</b>
|-
|フリー||furi-||free
|-
|フリース||furi-su||Fleece
|-
| || ||
|-
|スタイル||sutairu||style
|-
|タイル||tairu||Tyler
|-
|}
 
Most translation sites have corrected this mistake, but [[Fleece Tyler]] still lives on, in our hearts, minds and on this page.
 
==References==
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