I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

[Tintenfisch]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

DAY SEX




I don't even know.

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

Ees.

The Ark of Nap-ish-tim.

[josh]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

duh-bull poh-steh

[Riotsword]

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only thing to give me trouble, and still does, is Zidane's name. no ****ing idea.

well, theres a real person where it's pronounced "zih-dah-nay". and that just sounds sooooooo stupid.

If it's that football player who headbutted that guy in the World Cup Finals, I've only ever heard it said as "Zhih-DAHN"(that soft Z sound at the beginning applied to some Russian names).

Oh, I missed one. At first I thought Guile was pronounce "Gyool", because I'd never seen that word in my life before then. Of course, I was 7 then, so go figure.

[marcus]

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DAY SEX

Warren Spector choose that title on a whim. He was quoted as saying "I'm hoping the people misprouncing it will say "Do Sex" and pick up the game without even thinking."

[Alzar]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

man it is weird that these japanese names are sometimes pronnounced in the way a japanese person would say them

thats just so weird guys

[marcus]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

man it is weird that these japanese names are sometimes pronnounced in the way a japanese person would say them

thats just so weird guys

SORRID SNAKERU

[The_Real_Crunk]

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I hate that **** when Im watching animu in english and they insist on pronouncing names in japanese, or still have kun and san and all that other crap still attched to the names. It doesnt make sense in english. Just drop it!

Friggin' FLCL and Naotas dad calling him Nahota-koon.

[John Mora]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

Well, it denotes a certain relationship and level of familiarity that there just aren't enough analogues for in English speech. So instead of losing something in the translation, they just bring the honorifics along.

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

Also, his mouth is making the shape of "kun" so then they'd have to stretch out his name to fill it in! It'd be "Naotouuuuu!"

[Tintenfisch]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

We have our own honorifics such as Mister, master, Misses, miss. The ones we don't share, a good translator would drop.

[John Mora]

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But then you lose a hidden layer of meaning.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

Well, it denotes a certain relationship and level of familiarity that there just aren't enough analogues for in English speech. So instead of losing something in the translation, they just bring the honorifics along.

That craps not needed in english though. It just doesnt make sense. We can tell who a persons dad or friend is by watching or reading something. Blegh.

[John Mora]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

But USUALLY in anime, you're seeing a depiction of Japanese life, where it IS a part of the culture.

[Caciss]

Re: I refuse to pronounce your title properly!

How do you lose a layer of meaning when I don't even fully understand the sans and ****.