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Gologle posted:The real mystery is how you say their names. Is it "Q-ween-a"? Is it "Keen-a"? Is it "Queen-a?" Is it "Quail"? Or "Q-wail"? And is it "Q"? Or is it "Q-U"? That's not even a mystery, just look at the Japanese pronunciation: Kuina Kūen. It's "queen-a"
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Xad posted:That's not even a mystery, just look at the Japanese pronunciation: Kuina Kūen. It's "queen-a" Is this where i ignorantly bring up aeris vs aerith?
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Queen-a and Kee-stis? In two consecutive games? That's just silly.
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Its almost like FF9 has the same drat problem 8 does where if you arent the front cast your story develops purely at the whims of the writer remembering you exist.
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I've always pronounced it like the grain, quinoa.
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Paperhouse posted:The whole thing just doesn't really make sense. I also don't really like how you never see any other Qus in the game other than Quina and Quale. Are they the only ones? What happened to Quina's parents? It always felt off to me, and it doesn't really help that Quina is such a one note character with no development at all. quan
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Barudak posted:Its almost like FF9 has the same drat problem 8 does where if you arent the front cast your story develops purely at the whims of the writer remembering you exist. I mean let’s be fair, not that 9 doesn’t have that problem to some degree, but Quina is basically the comic relief character from a dark anime like Puck in Berserk that gets up to wacky shenanigans to take your mind off of the dark poo poo.
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lobster22221 posted:Is this where i ignorantly bring up aeris vs aerith? Aerisu Voice acting took something out of old FF scripts, but I don't miss the days of arguing how names are pronounced edit: these videos are actually really good in general but the section on this is relevant to here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCS7HQOs1mU&t=587s Ventana fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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lobster22221 posted:Is this where i ignorantly bring up aeris vs aerith? That's irrelevant because the reason THAT exists is that "su" and "th" are represented in katakana using the same character ス. This isn't the case for Quina, which as written is the characters: Ku I Na クイナ. There's...no other way to pronounce that. It's "Queen-a"". If it was "Kee na" then it would be written "Ki Na" キナ or maybe "Ki I Na" キイナ or "Ki - Na" キーナ but it's not, and if it was pronounced Kye-na it would be written as "Ka I Na," カイナ which again, it is not 
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Xad posted:That's irrelevant because the reason THAT exists is that "su" and "th" are represented in katakana using the same character ス. Couldn't it be pronounced "Quin-uh" (Kwin-uh) instead of "Queen-uh"?
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a crisp refreshing Moxie posted:Queen-a and Kee-stis? In two consecutive games? That's just silly. World of Final Fantasy confirmed it's "Kwiss tiss"
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I'm so happy that no one has to debate pronunciation in my language because every sound is very clearly defined and as a bonus we also always get to speak the proper Japanese pronunciation for free. English's pronunciation is so irregular that any consensus on how to pronounce new names seems like a nightmare scenario.
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Elentor posted:I'm so happy that no one has to debate pronunciation in my language because every sound is very clearly defined and as a bonus we also always get to speak the proper Japanese pronunciation for free. Same, I won't claim Finnish isn't a bit wacky in other ways but at least we know exactly how to pronounce our drat words. And our pronouns are gender-neutral by default too, so that's another modern headache avoided. The English language was a terrible mistake.
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Kanfy posted:Same, I won't claim Finnish isn't a bit wacky in other ways but at least we know exactly how to pronounce our drat words. And our pronouns are gender-neutral by default too, so that's another modern headache avoided. As someone who only speaks english, English is a weird orgy of german, french, latin, and greek, with a few other loanwords mixed in, and a bunch of other poo poo an actual linguist would be able to point out. Its hard not to be hosed up.
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Mega64 posted:teedus (Play sound) https://translate.google.com.br/?hl=en&tab=wT&authuser=0#view=home&op=translate&sl=pt&tl=en&text=tidus
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lobster22221 posted:As someone who only speaks english, English is a weird orgy of german, french, latin, and greek, with a few other loanwords mixed in, and a bunch of other poo poo an actual linguist would be able to point out. Its hard not to be hosed up. I definitely have a lot of respect for people who successfully learn English pronunciation from scratch without the exposure most people in the west get from tv-shows and such growing up. On the opposite end people who make fun of other people's foreign accents and pronunciation can gently caress right off, though that's not by any means exclusive to the English-speaking world.
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I'll be honest, in my experience people are way more tolerant about English accents (except for Americans towards the Canadians, I suppose, but otherwise Americans are pretty chill about it), probably because of how widespread English is, than the other languages I know. Brazilians really dislike Portuguese that is not the one they speak in their exact city/state and the only thing they hate more than that is how much Brazilians and Portuguese absolutely hate each other's accents. It's not even remotely similar to an American making a joke about the way British people talk or imitating an Indian accent or debating about color vs colour. It's "you filthy Brazilians speak an abomination that is an offense to all that is precious about our dear language" from 5 out of 6 Portuguese people I've ever encountered on the Internet and it's not like people here are any nicer than that towards them, I'm pretty sure they must have heard the same or worse. I always apologize in advance for my English as I don't get to practice a lot and I've never seen anyone be less than nice about it, even in an extremely xenophobic environment towards Brazilians such as WoW communities right now. People will notice you're not American and that's about the extent of it. Sometimes they ask, react in amusement, but whether they're bordering on Canada, are Texan, live on the west or east coast it never really goes beyond that. The worst opinion the worst american ever had about my accent is considerably nicer than what people in my bordering states think of the way people speak in Rio. Elentor fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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As a person who speaks Portuguese from Portugal I can concur. They're practically two different languages, it feels like sometimes, and I've had to deal with it more in my place of work as of late. It doesn't help that I'm technically in the minority, Portugal itself being a little baby of a nation compared to the massive girth of Brazil. Whenever someone mentions Portuguese just off the cuff it's pretty much 95% of the time referring to Brazillian Portuguese which I can't really help with. 
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Schwartzcough posted:Couldn't it be pronounced "Quin-uh" (Kwin-uh) instead of "Queen-uh"? Nope, that vowel sound doesn't really exist in Japanese. I/い always makes an "ee" sound. Edit: oh right, but regardless of where you stand on the aeris/th thing, nobody thinks it's aerEEs/th, so yeah it could be, but it's definitely queena in Japanese at least Xad fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Dec 11, 2018 |
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Alxprit posted:As a person who speaks Portuguese from Portugal I can concur. They're practically two different languages, it feels like sometimes, and I've had to deal with it more in my place of work as of late. It doesn't help that I'm technically in the minority, Portugal itself being a little baby of a nation compared to the massive girth of Brazil. Whenever someone mentions Portuguese just off the cuff it's pretty much 95% of the time referring to Brazillian Portuguese which I can't really help with. I wish for the sake of both our peoples people stopped trying to unify our languages. No Brazilian likes to read ecrã and I'm absolutely sure no Portuguese individual likes to read our words. Everyone I know who visits Portugal says they have a harder time understanding you folks than they do understanding Spanish. Everyone would be happy if we officially went our separate ways in the linguistic evolutionary tree, respected that there are differences, and a lot of the animosity would die the next day.
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I wouldn't mind if Aerix was secretly Ares, the Greek God of War incarnate in the flesh of a young maiden.
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lobster22221 posted:As someone who only speaks english, English is a weird orgy of german, french, latin, and greek, with a few other loanwords mixed in, and a bunch of other poo poo an actual linguist would be able to point out. Its hard not to be hosed up.
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Gologle posted:I wouldn't mind if Aerix was secretly Ares, the Greek God of War incarnate in the flesh of a young maiden. Please stop posting my fetishes.
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Mega64 posted:teedus Sess-ul
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Evil Fluffy posted:Sess-ul Noke-tees
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The only objectively correct pronunciation is Airy Sue.
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Tiff-uh
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Yoo-fee edit: Red Ecks-Eye-Eye-Eye
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:
Red Shee
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Say fur
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Cat shee. Does it count if his name is in another language?
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Zai Dane
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Fee-nal Font-ah-say
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Don Gato posted:Cat shee. Ket-shee 
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HD DAD posted:Ket-shee That's a pretty catchy name 
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LadyPictureShow posted:That's a pretty catchy name i dunno, seems kitschy
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