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Animah Or Aimeh Or Animeee

Postby Christianotaku » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:51 am

How do you pronounce anime


i usually go with latin animey

sometime i say animee

but never animeh or animah
thats the way i see it
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Postby Gypsy » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:57 am

An-i(as in him)-may
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Postby LorentzForce » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:49 pm

i usually pronounce it animeh.

that or the entire word, animation. that doesn't create troubles.
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Postby andyroo » Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:57 pm

I just take the first part of anima tion. You know what? I think Ashley tried to explain this in the mission statement. I still like to think up of alternate explanations, though. I guess the closest I could get to a phonetic spelling would be ann-eh-may. It is pretty much identical to what Gypsy wrote, but with a few changes here and there.
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Postby Aibou » Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:35 am

This is the way I believe the Japanese pronounce "anime"..

the "a" as in "far"
the "ni" just as "we"
the "me" just as "may"
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Postby LorentzForce » Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:35 am

i believe there shouldn't really be any problem of choosing which pronounciation, as long as the listener can understand what the word is.

isn't language communication, and isn't the reason of communication (more like a definition really) is for 2 or more people or objects to understand each others' messages? isn't it enough when that's achieved?

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Postby uc pseudonym » Wed Jun 18, 2003 9:32 am

I always pronounced anime as k OD fi sh. My half-cent...
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Postby Ashley » Wed Jun 18, 2003 10:32 am

speaking of pronounciations...I know it's wrong but I cannot bring myself to say mahn-ga. It sounds too weird to my tongue. So yeah, I stubbornly--wrongly--say main-ga.
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Postby Gypsy » Wed Jun 18, 2003 10:50 am

And yet .. it doesn't change the fact that it's mahn-ga. You want people to laugh at you?:shake:
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Postby Stephen » Wed Jun 18, 2003 11:00 am

This from the person that is such a follower with KH over Tidus's name....;)
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Postby MasterDias » Wed Jun 18, 2003 2:56 pm

Originally posted by Ashley
speaking of pronounciations...I know it's wrong but I cannot bring myself to say mahn-ga. It sounds too weird to my tongue. So yeah, I stubbornly--wrongly--say main-ga.


You were supposed to pronounce it mahn-ga?????
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Postby inkhana » Wed Jun 18, 2003 6:47 pm

"Man-guh" was the way I always pronounced it, but what do I know? ;)


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Postby Straylight » Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:02 pm

Main-ga? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I have never, ever heard that pronounciation before :D
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Wed Jun 18, 2003 7:16 pm

Bahahahahaha, this thread makes me laugh. ;] Y'all're funny.

I say "ah-knee-may" and "mah-n-ga" ^^; I'm such a stinkin' purist...lol.
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Postby Shinja » Wed Jun 18, 2003 10:31 pm

heres one not posted yet

japananime

japan-a-may
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Postby Shinja » Wed Jun 18, 2003 10:32 pm

oh yeah i pronounce it mang-a
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Postby andyroo » Wed Jun 18, 2003 11:32 pm

I am pretty sure that you pronunciate it mahn-guh. I got the fragmented pronunciation from Reiko-chan's Japanese for Anime Lovers to make sure that was close to being right. Just go to the Katakana section and look up 'ma' 'ga', and for 'n' go to the Hirigana section. Just listen to the wave file for each. This will definately clear up some mispronunciations. ^_^
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Postby WhiteÃ…ngel » Wed Jun 18, 2003 11:43 pm

You have to understand that as hard as we try.... for us Texans, that twang just comes out and things like Manga become mainga .. besides I like to hear a twang when a girl talks, it sound really cute...
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Postby andyroo » Wed Jun 18, 2003 11:54 pm

yeah, I guess you're right. People say it the same way over here too. mainga. :eyebrow:
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Postby LorentzForce » Thu Jun 19, 2003 3:15 am

i pronounce manga

Marng gah

manga sounds very close to the korean similarity called manwha. which is pronounced mwan hwa. something like that, it's almost impossible to translate it fully into english.

good thing that japanese ripped korean pronounciations and ripped the chinese characters off. bad thing that they did a weird job at it.
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Postby Ashley » Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:37 am

TANGENT!

You have to understand that as hard as we try.... for us Texans, that twang just comes out and things like Manga become mainga .. besides I like to hear a twang when a girl talks, it sound really cute...


I try very, very, very hard not to let my "native twang" seep through. Ask Shatterheart or Ami...unless they lied to me neither one said I had a drawl. Hence why I avoid saying words like y'all and other "texas" slang. Resta you states should be happy; you have no misconceptions to live up to! Although sometimes those misconceptions are funny...in Germany people thought my family had a herd of cattle. They wanted to see my boots (which I don't even own a pair). :rolls_eye I just say main-ga because it's easier and sounds better to my ears.
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Postby Gypsy » Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:42 am

She's piling it - she only says main-ga because she can't help her accent. But for the record, Ashley, I find your drawl charming. And are you going to post a picture of all your steer roping trophies or not? We'd all love to see 'em.
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Postby Ashley » Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:44 am

:shady: Not helping Gyp.
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Postby Gypsy » Thu Jun 19, 2003 8:38 am

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Postby uc pseudonym » Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:19 am

Resta you states should be happy; you have no misconceptions to live up to!


No misconceptions? I'd have to politely disagree with that point. I was asked if we had any roads in my state once...
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Postby WhiteÃ…ngel » Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:30 am

you guys are killing me.... ROFL :grin: :lol: :dizzy:
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:11 pm

Hey, us "Okies" get written off as hicks too! :sniffle: Although I admit, the word "y'all" is freaking burned into me :red: At least I don't say "warsh" instead of "wash" like my mom....

To get back on topic a bit, I think Japanese vowels and pronunciation make a lot more sense than English. Like, "a" is -always- "ah", "e" is always "eh", etc etc and so forth. It's the stinkin' -consonants- that give me trouble....O_O Other than that it came kind of easily for me...::shrug:: ^^;;
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Postby Izumi San » Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:22 pm

Personally I just pronounce em like they look:

Anime = ah-nih-may
Manga = main-gah

Not that hard lol. I'm going to ana Anime Fans Club right now & all the people there pronounce Japanese names differently. It drives me up the wall !!
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Postby MasterDias » Thu Jun 19, 2003 5:00 pm

Originally posted by ShiroiHikari
To get back on topic a bit, I think Japanese vowels and pronunciation make a lot more sense than English. Like, "a" is -always- "ah", "e" is always "eh", etc etc and so forth. It's the stinkin' -consonants- that give me trouble....O_O Other than that it came kind of easily for me...::shrug:: ^^;;


Well, English is supposed to be one of the hardest languages to learn. Sometimes I wonder where English got all it's grammer rules from.
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Postby Technomancer » Thu Jun 19, 2003 5:19 pm

All over the place! The original English were comprised of three different Germanic tribes (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) who spoke a number of different dialects (albiet of roughly the same language). The Viking invasions saw both Danes and Norwegians settling in England. Of course, there was also the Norman Conquest (The Normans themselves being of French/Viking stock) who brought their own variant of the French language (along with their French and Breton mercenaries). Afterwards, Norman French became the language of the ruling class and gradually changed the grammatical structure of the English language. Greek and Latin loan words also likely played a substantial role.
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