Triggerhappytel
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I say 'Eye-co' as well. If it's 'Ee-co' as some people suggest, does that mean that the beast in The Last Guardian is called the 'Tree-co'?
Improper citation or pronunciation of names that drive you insane
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I say 'Eye-co' as well. If it's 'Ee-co' as some people suggest, does that mean that the beast in The Last Guardian is called the 'Tree-co'?
A large number of people in America cannot roll their Rs. If you speak spanish, this becomes apparent. I've tried teaching people to roll their Rs, but unless you did it from a young age, it's like a skill that is lost.
Similarly, the nuance in pronouncing names like "Ryu" and "Ryo" is lost on some people. It's like a motion their tongues can't make.
Give an example - do you know that thing kids sometimes do where they'll stick their tongues up to the roof of their mouth, with the bottom half facing outwards, and flex their tongue to make a stream of spit shoot out of their mouth? All the kids I knew when I was younger could do this, apparently this was some popular thing little kids did in this area growing up. I could never do it. Not even to this day. The motion is completely foreign to me.
I think Super Bunnyhop takes the cake here. Fortunately the other people on his podcast corrected him before he released a eulogy for "eye water".
Mooshi hii mi sama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bH-1v-Yz9k
When roman numerals get too big I stop parsing them as numbers, hence Final Fantasy Ecks. I think of it as punishment for too many sequels. Also there is no language where X is pronounced cross, it can be pronounced chi if it's supposed to be a greek letter but if you mean cross then write it out.
Mooshi hii mi sama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bH-1v-Yz9k
When roman numerals get too big I stop parsing them as numbers, hence Final Fantasy Ecks. I think of it as punishment for too many sequels. Also there is no language where X is pronounced cross, it can be pronounced chi if it's supposed to be a greek letter but if you mean cross then write it out.
That drove me nuts! HOW DID THEY DO THAT?
My friends would do it and whenever I'd try, I'd just end up with slobber all over my chin.
This reminds me of the Zee vs Zed thread over the pronunciation of the letter "Z" in the english alphabet. I remember some UK posters who posted that they couldn't even make the Zee sound from their throat at all; it was a completely foreign concept to them.
Haha yeah English speakers butchering Japanese words ain't got shit on people from other countries butchering English words lol
Some French examples: "Mehtahl jeer", "cahll of duty", "fahlloot", "super smash bross". And of course "the" becomes "ze" (but that's understandable because there's no sound like that "th" in French). Then there's also stuff like Asura's Wrath that people just give up on trying to pronounce.
Yeah definitely. I can understand them mispronouncing the "r" because it's not a sound used in English. On the other hand pronouncing the "s" is something that could have easily been avoided if they consulted a native speaker.
It's definitely ee-ko (/ˈiːkoʊ/). And it's very likely the beast is called Treeco too. English's like the only language to pronounce "I" as "eye".
timetokill
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But then how do zay parody zee geemans?
Ryouji Gunblade
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Metroid as Mii-troid. A friend convinced me to use this pronunciation and then I had to unlearn it.
Also Deku as Dii-ku.
Also Deku as Dii-ku.
Well, if you look at what we understand about early age language acquisition during the critical period, we know that one of the first steps is that the child basically learns to a "palette" of phonemes to base his language upon that is derived from commonly heard sounds, and learns to block out sounds that don't match this palette.
Hence, if you aren't used to hearing the mora formed from the yoon in words like "Ryo" - a phenomenon that doesn't really exist in english - they literally don't hear it. And thus it becomes very hard to imitate a sound you aren't hearing correctly.
The dry British wit strikes again.
lol brb, gonna find a French person so I can talk about video games with my friends at the pub.
AdawgDaFAB
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I can't stand that pronounciation of Cecil's name either. I'm pretty sure it's the official one for SE, but I still call him See-Cil rather than Seh-cil.
Bruh we're talking about the characters in the game lol, I'm sure there's a French employee somewhere at Konami that could have told them how to pronounce it
Bruh we're talking about the characters in the game lol, I'm sure there's a French employee somewhere at Konami that could have told them how to pronounce it
well, that criticism goes both ways, doesn't it David Cage
well, that criticism goes both ways, doesn't it David Cage
Haha yeah it definitely goes both ways.
Francophones are just as good as anglophones when it comes to butchering foreign words
Krappadizzle
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LiegeWaffle
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The ʊ is redundant here and is not even a phoneme in Japanese.
Times, disc, up, rectangle, that's what everyone calls the psx buttons, right?
Krappadizzle
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All the smart ones at least.
NumberThree
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I call the green one pyramid viewed from the side.
Kyo
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Well, yes and no. The above mostly goes for people who haven't really learned more than language. And that group is obviously much larger in the US than anywhere in Europe. Once you've moved beyond your first language, you tend to question these things a lot more.
And it doesn't help that English is probably the most random and chaotic when it comes to pronunciation of vowels. How do you pronounce "ei"? As in "weird"? As in "height"? As in "weight"? As in "being"? There really isn't a rule, so trying to guess a name's correct pronunciation based on that is futile anyway.
Okay. I just copy-pasted that from wiki, more for the "i" part of it.
Nah, if you're really smart you call them cross product, composition operator, delta and QED.
Funyarinpa
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When people write Danganronpa separately as Dangan Ronpa
StrawberryJam
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Pft 'Times'? It's obviously pronounced 'Multiply'.
The various pronunciations of Father Gascoigne from Bloodborne. Gaskweehh, Gascuang, whatever the hell. It is literally Gas-Coin.
Put your hand on your throat while you make the "Zee" sound. My, and every other american I personally know, throat has a distinct vibration to "cap" the sound and separate it from an S, which was the main argument in the thread of "Zee" vs "Zed" is that "Zee" sounds apparently pretty identical to the soft S to non-americans. Americans (and maybe some non americans, judging by this thread...) have a very distinct rattling coming from their throat which hardens the sound and separates it from other letters.
LiegeWaffle
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They are, of course, \times, \Delta, \Box and \circ.
My favourite was "gas-co-ig-nay". Said with a french flourish.
StrawberryJam
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There was Vicar Amelia as well. Vicar pronounced Vy-Kar when it is meant to be Vick-ar. The game has one the best mispronunciations but. 'A hoonter must hoont'.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
SeeNoWeevil
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I can't stand to hear people say Maaar-eo.
"Less infants terribles"
He's supposed to be fluent in French (and 6 other languages) too lol
Isn't that just a real-life accent?
345triangle
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yes. it's to-ri-ko in japanese. like the name "rico" with a T at the start.
yeah, but "zee" is definitely not an example of that for british people. they're quite capable of saying "magazine", for example. people in that thread were clearly on crack. Z is a voiced consonant in all forms of english.
mcz117chief
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When people pronounce Xin Zhao as Xin Zhao instead of Shin (or Kin) Chō in League of Legends. I mean, I would be ok if some plebs would say that but e-sport commentators and LCS players? Good Lord!
Possumowner
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When I used to work in an Indy games shop many moons ago,we used to have people, normally mothers or grandparents come in asking for President Evil or Residential Evil...I am not even joking.Well it gave us a smile
Shouldn't the les in les enfants be pronounced as lez due to the following vowel?
Come to think of it I never had to vocalize any of them before.
Sounds like LaTeX to me? That name is more pronunciation fun.
Come to think of it I never had to vocalize any of them before.
Sounds like LaTeX to me? That name is more pronunciation fun.
StrawberryJam
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Yeah it's from the north of England, not sure where specific. I just love the way she says it haha.
legendaryskitch
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I'm sticking to tide-us. Even square uses both on occasions. I don't think they really care how people pronounce it.
A lot of the posts here are ridiculous though. Just because it is pronounced one way in Japanese and that's how it's intended doesn't mean that it'll sound right elsewhere. No one corrects words like karaoke and sayonara which are never pronounced right in English (if you do correct these, then you might be a bit of a twat).
Isn't the important thing behind a name just to mark who or whatever you're talking about. As long as it's understood it's fine.
A lot of the posts here are ridiculous though. Just because it is pronounced one way in Japanese and that's how it's intended doesn't mean that it'll sound right elsewhere. No one corrects words like karaoke and sayonara which are never pronounced right in English (if you do correct these, then you might be a bit of a twat).
Isn't the important thing behind a name just to mark who or whatever you're talking about. As long as it's understood it's fine.
well I thought that was weird but didn't want to accuse the guy of lying or anything. I was mainly talking about the way Americans have trouble saying "Ryo" and "Ryu" correctly.
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