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[Lost Monkey]

Dave-Oh said:

My sonic says See-ga when it boots,

[Jasoco]

DeV0 said:

My sonic says See-ga when it boots,

Anyways, a friend of mine imports toys and has contacts in Taito who pronounce it as Tie-Toe

If that's true, maybe it's a regional thing.

All my talking logos say "SAY-GAH".

[DeV0]

Jasoco said:

DeV0 said:

My sonic says See-ga when it boots,

Anyways, a friend of mine imports toys and has contacts in Taito who pronounce it as Tie-Toe

If that's true, maybe it's a regional thing.

All my talking logos say "SAY-GAH".

Umm, are you just taking the Piss??? The first time i noticed this was while watching Mallrats, At some stage some unkonown calls someone Say-gah boy and i was gagging as i thought it was an obvious error. But yeah a regional thing i spose. what about other PAL ppl, Say-gah? or See-gah?

[Lost Monkey]

DeV0 said:

Jasoco said:

DeV0 said:

My sonic says See-ga when it boots,

Anyways, a friend of mine imports toys and has contacts in Taito who pronounce it as Tie-Toe

If that's true, maybe it's a regional thing.

All my talking logos say "SAY-GAH".

Umm, are you just taking the Piss??? The first time i noticed this was while watching Mallrats, At some stage some unkonown calls someone Say-gah boy and i was gagging as i thought it was an obvious error. But yeah a regional thing i spose. what about other PAL ppl, Say-gah? or See-gah?

North American games say "Say-gah".

Doesn't Sonic Pocket Adventure for NGPC say "Say-Gah"?

[liquid_sky]

yup

[Raijin Z]

The Japanese "e" sound is more like "eh" with some uses as "ay", but when you want a strong AAAAYYYY sound (thank you, Mister Fonzerelli), you'd spell it "ei". So anyway, "seh-guh" and "say-guh" are correct.

Xot said:

Tengen, I THINK,  is with a soft G (ten-jen).

Nope. If it were meant to be pronounced with a soft G sound, the same sound that starts the word GIRAFFE (you'd never see THAT on The Letter People.... Antidisestablishmentarianism!), it would have been translated with a J. Tengen is always "ten gen" and never, ever "ten jen".

[MegaManFan]

Tie-toe.

[Xot]

Raijin Z said:

The Japanese "e" sound is more like "eh" with some uses as "ay", but when you want a strong AAAAYYYY sound (thank you, Mister Fonzerelli), you'd spell it "ei". So anyway, "seh-guh" and "say-guh" are correct.

Xot said:

Tengen, I THINK,  is with a soft G (ten-jen).

Nope. If it were meant to be pronounced with a soft G sound, the same sound that starts the word GIRAFFE (you'd never see THAT on The Letter People.... Antidisestablishmentarianism!), it would have been translated with a J. Tengen is always "ten gen" and never, ever "ten jen".

I've never seen Tengen in Katakana (or Hiragana or Kanji, for that matter). I was under the impression it was a US operation, and thus followed English pronunciation rules. Even seeing you type out "gen" makes me THINK of a soft-G sound when I know you mean a hard G.

[Raijin Z]

At least english is free of those goddamn fricatives.

[Xot]

Raijin Z said:

The Japanese "e" sound is more like "eh" with some uses as "ay", but when you want a strong AAAAYYYY sound (thank you, Mister Fonzerelli), you'd spell it "ei". So anyway, "seh-guh" and "say-guh" are correct..

Ahh.. the memories of my Japanese class chanting out in unison the vowel sounds... AH EE OO AY OH! AH EE OO AY OH!

ad nausuem!

[Raijin Z]

In my universe, Japanese classes only exist in Japan and some weird places in California. My universe? OHIO. =_=

[DeV0]

Lost Monkey said:

DeV0 said:

Jasoco said:

DeV0 said:

My sonic says See-ga when it boots,

Anyways, a friend of mine imports toys and has contacts in Taito who pronounce it as Tie-Toe

If that's true, maybe it's a regional thing.

All my talking logos say "SAY-GAH".

Umm, are you just taking the Piss??? The first time i noticed this was while watching Mallrats, At some stage some unkonown calls someone Say-gah boy and i was gagging as i thought it was an obvious error. But yeah a regional thing i spose. what about other PAL ppl, Say-gah? or See-gah?

North American games say "Say-gah".

Doesn't Sonic Pocket Adventure for NGPC say "Say-Gah"?

Well judist priest, I never would have expected that. Must get a northern american sonic cart

[MattG/Snyper2099]

I always wondered how do you pronounce "gotllieb"? The pinball maker from way back. Is it goat-lee-eb???

[Artlover]

desiv said:

Room 34 said:

desiv said:

It's spelled Taito, but it's pronounced:
Throatwarbler Mangrove

You're a silly man.

True, but I stole that one from Monty Python.
(The TV show (Flying Circus), not the movies.)

:-)

Ooo, ooo!

Mouse xylophone! They never show that one much thou. (Thud, Squeek. Thud thud, Squeek squeek!) Hahaha.

And, I pronounce it Tah-I-toe.

[Nukey Shay]

Tater.

Carl said:

Ah'd shore like some o' those French-fried taters and mustard...mmm-hmmm.

[Nukey Shay]

Raijin Z said:

At least english is free of those goddamn fricatives.

Not bilabial fricatives. That's a universal language (even babies use those).

[caveman]

You go like this:

Tie-toe

See?

I pronounce Moog like this:

...and the cow jumped over the Moog.

Even though Bob Moog pronounces it as in:

Moog, Larry, and Curly.

[Xot]

MattG/Snyper2099 said:

I always wondered how do you pronounce "gotllieb"?  The pinball maker from way back.  Is it goat-lee-eb???

Got - leeb.

[Nukey Shay]

Chong said:

No...but I have some "Krispy Krunch" and a "Mocha Delight"

[liveinabin]

Nukey Shay said:

Tater.

Carl said:

Ah'd shore like some o' those French-fried taters and mustard...mmm-hmmm.

What's taters, precious?

[Nukey Shay]

Wha'cha got in mind, Cubbie?


Chips...French-fried taters are chips

[Albert]

I've always pronounced Taito as "TAY-TOE", although I know that is wrong. Generally that is how I have heard other people pronounce it also. And XYPE is "ZYPE".

..Al

[CPUWIZ]

Albert said:

And XYPE is "ZYPE".  

..Al

No, it's a cheesy ripoff of EPYX.