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[Hellsing321]

The logic connecting a meme featuring a Japanese shiba from 2010 and a home star runner video from 2005 seems specious at best.

 

[nubbe]

I pronounce it DO-GE with a hard G, it just sounds better

amen, preach it

 

[Yasumi]

I always pronounced it doeg, like dog but with an e in the middle of it. Doh-geh is also acceptable, due to the Japanese origin. Dohj just sounds wrong.

 

[BattleMonkey]

The logic connecting a meme featuring a Japanese shiba from 2010 and a home star runner video from 2005 seems specious at best.

Grammar backs it up though. Adding an e to dog does not suddenly make it two syllables, and e causes the o to change.

 

[Beardz]

FREE SEX!!!!!!!!!


Now that I have your attention, this is the only correct way of pronounce Doge:

http://translate.google.com/#es/en/Dogue

Listen to that please.

 

[sestrugen]

it's doh-geh and I don't care about what the creator says

 

[Nikodemos]

Grammar backs it up though. Adding an e to dog does not suddenly make it two syllables, and e causes the o to change.

It's a fake made-up word that doesn't conform to existing English grammatical principles. It uses Japanese vocabulary rules.

You don't pronounce 'ahoge' as 'ahohj', do you?

 

[Lamel]

Everyone I know calls it DOHJ.

 

[Frustrated_Grunt]

it's doh-geh and I don't care about what the creator says

Doh-geh for life!

 

[Cow Mengde]

If you're interested in the source material

That... that's amazing!

 

[Kunan]

Thank goodness I actually have been saying it right this whole time

 

[3phemeral]

#TeamDoh-Geh.

I don't care what the correct pronunciation is in this instance but that I drastically prefer "doh-geh" over any other variation simply because it just seems to fit.

Reminds me of when NPR did a story about MMORPGs and said that it's commonly referred to, among fans, as "more-pegs."

 

[hodgy100]

FREE SEX!!!!!!!!!


Now that I have your attention, this is the only correct way of pronounce Doge:

http://translate.google.com/#es/en/Dogue

Listen to that please.

well we are talking about the pronunciation of Doge not Dogue and google quite clearly pronounces Doge as "doje"

 

[Phoenix]

LOL that's awesome.

 

[BattleMonkey]

It's a fake made-up word that doesn't conform to existing English grammatical principles. It uses Japanese vocabulary rules.

You don't pronounce 'ahoge' as 'ahohj', do you?

Japanese/english vocab rules? lol what. It's an english made meme, the whole point is that it's being said wrong, not that it's spelt wrong

FREE SEX!!!!!!!!!


Now that I have your attention, this is the only correct way of pronounce Doge:

http://translate.google.com/#es/en/Dogue

Listen to that please.

That's dogue, not doge

 

[Starwolf_UK]

1) Original homestar runner thing that it's based on says dohj. Source
2) Doge, as in italian chiefs of state lordship in the renaissance period, are pronounced as dohj. Source
3) Creator of dogecoin says dohj Source. (1:40)
4) How could it not be dohj wtf is wrong with you people

Its the internet, people will disagree on anything.

Well actually more that comes to mind is gif vs. jif.

 

[RSLAEV]

IDGAF who says what, I say that shit DOUGH-GHEY

 

[Pristine_Condition]

I thought it was pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove."

http://youtu.be/tyQvjKqXA0Y

I am amused though that an adult man is selling actual real estate for something with less of an actual value than a few birds nests and a small collected bundle of bits of disguarded twine, and the GAF take is "wait...how are they pronouncing Doge?"

 

[Anoregon]

Its the internet, people will disagree on anything.

Well actually more that comes to mind is gif vs. jif.

People who say both "doh-geh" and "jif" are objectively terrible and need to leave planet earth.

 

[Vilam]

Nice to see a mainstream article get the pronunciation right.

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Somebody, using step by step details, tell me how an "online currency" such as bitcoins/dogecoins can be born, sustained, traded, etc. I have a hard time grasping the concept, in all honesty. It seems like a HUGE gamble, and yet I've actually met a dude who traded $4.2 million last year in bitcoin exchange, so it's got to be working...

 

[rokkerkory]

idiots

 

[Phoenix]

Nice to see a mainstream article get the pronunciation right.

Since it is a dog on a coin I just always assumed it was pronounced

"Doggy" for "Doggy Coin".

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Dough-juh

 

[Omega]

lmao at all the people that don't even say doge right.

Extremely fitting since there was just a thread on GAF about how people mispronounce words

 

[Reversed]

NeoGaf: pronunciation wars.

IPA is badly needed .

 

[Rayis]

It's always been dohj, if you didn't know that you're not a true fan of the meme.

 

[Khaz]

1) Original homestar runner thing that it's based on says dohj. Source
2) Doge, as in italian chiefs of state lordship in the renaissance period, are pronounced as dohj. Source
3) Creator of dogecoin says dohj Source. (1:40)
4) How could it not be dohj wtf is wrong with you people

1) says [d̪ɔʒ]
2) says [d̪ɔd͡ʒ]
3) says [d̪ɔd͡ʒ] first, then carry on with [d̪ɔʒ]
4) There really are people saying it [d̪ɔɡ] ? As in, dog?

I thought the dispute was between [d͡ʒ] and [ʒ], but it seems like I'm the only one differentiating them, as you and other people say it's the same sound

 

[GaimeGuy]

the girl in this video is crazy.

Look at dat fur raised.

Dem ears pointed.

Much rage.

 

[terrisus]

Dogecoin (pronounced DOHJ-coin)

 

[temp]

Dohj for sure. 'Doggy' isn't even funny.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Isn't it just a misspelling of doggie? Hence pronounced doggie?

Edit: Hey maybe I should read the whole thread first next time.

I assumed the language being used to parody bit coin was Japanese , if so,, there is no "Ji" sound G's are GUH period so if theres a 'G' its doh - geh imho.

 

[Tesseract]

it's doogle-eye

 

[doctorblurg]

Perfection

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Anyone who doesnt say it like DOHJ is an uncivilized beast.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Wait. It's NOT pronounced Dohj?

It bloody well is to us civilised folk.
edit: beaten by a man that likes ponies

 

[Beant]

It bloody well is to us civilised folk.
edit: beaten by a man that likes ponies

and the jags, talk about a stacked deck

 

[Alligatorjandro]

It bloody well is to us civilised folk.
edit: beaten by a man that likes ponies

No, I agree with DOHJ.

 

[ronito]

man, you all sayin' it's not pronounced Dohj.
Next you'll tell you me that gif is actually jif.

 

[Tesseract]

these pronunciation debates are about as dumb as flag burning debates, in my doogly-eyed opines.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Looks like DOHJ has been vindicated. Only way that ever made sense.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Doge rhymes with "vogue."

 

[GodParticle]

Wait...those are a thing? I thought they were just a joke to go along with the meme

 

[Khaz]

Doge rhymes with "vogue."

Then it would have been written dogue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G

Spoiler

And gif is jif.

 

[superpickleman]

#TeamDOUGH-G

 

[speculawyer]

I go with "Dodge-E"

 

[$200]

Since it is a dog on a coin I just always assumed it was pronounced

"Doggy" for "Doggy Coin".

#TeamDoggy here

 

[Dead]

Protip: if you aren't pronouncing it as dohje then you are doing it wrong.

Extra point for saying doh-jhay

 

[Chumpion]

Don't try to push this Japanese zen bullshit! DOHJ is a crime against nature! The doge meme in all its sweetness deserves a playful pronunciation.

DOH-GEH is the only true and perfect way.

 

[Ryaaan14]

It's pronounced like dogue