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i have heard people pronounce the first CH like Chocolate and ive heard it pronounced as in cocoa. So before they said chocobo in ffx, how did you pronounce it?

I always pronounced it cho-ko-bo, with long Os.

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Do you ever say anything that isn't about chocobos?

i love chocobos too much to not mention them

This post has been edited by King of Chocobos on 21st May 2004 12:43

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kweh!

Do you ever say anything that isn't about chocobos? I used to pronounce it the wrong way until we started CoNchat and it came up in there one day. I forget how I used to pronounce it.

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I say it with a hard O (I guess that's what it's called, I forget my english). Anyway it sounds like the actual letter O being pronounced.

Ch-O-c-O-b-O.

Even if I'm deemed "wrong" I will continue to pronounce it this way. There's no way I'm changing it.

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I still do pronounce it like chocolate. It feels too American to have the long first O, to me, even though it's rather irrational.

I've always pronounced it like cocoa... some poeple tried to tell me once that I was wrong because ch sounds like chocolate always but if that's the case then I wanna know how they pronounce the word "chracter"...anyway...however it's actually pronounced I will always pronounce it like " K-O-k-O-b-O"

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Like the Ancient does.

This post has been edited by Sherick on 20th May 2004 19:21

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

What kind of question is that? I picked the bottom option. I always pronoonce it on how it is said in the game.

I pronounce it Sho-ko-bo. French "CH" is like english "SH". And I pronounce the O like the Ancient said (hard O).

This post has been edited by Goonies on 21st May 2004 13:27

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«À l'aventure compagnons, je suis parti vers l'horizon! J'aurais mieux fait de rester au lit, ce donjon, il est pourri!» - Pen of Chaos

ChuKoBow.

ChukoBow.

ChukoBow.
I always pronounced it like that. I saw something online(FFGilquest) say ChoeKoBow

considering that the game is a j-language game, originally, even without the ffx pronunciation, we know that tyokobo is pronounced with 3 long o sounds and an unvoiced "ch" (that is, no dyocobo or "jocobo"). thus cho, like the korean name, ko, like short for courtney, and bo, like the staff. chocobo.

even before i knew this was the right pronunciation, i prounouced it like the because that's how my grandfather pronounced it.

I always pronounced as they do in FFX. Cho-ko-bo, with all long o's.

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In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
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I've pronounced it like cocoa-bo ever since I've first seen the word. Some o" my friends keep trying to conv rt me to the choke-o-bo pronunc(ation, especially when FF10 cam$ out. I almost gave in, but now after seeing that a lot of other people pronounce it my way, I'll hold the line til the end!!

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Well, I now pronounce it correctly, but I idn't used to. In fact, I w s such a bad reader, that when  was pl ying VII, I called them Chobocos (With ALL long o's) I likedthat name better, actually.

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I pronouce it, and always have, "choke-uh-bo". If you say it with the middle syllable as a long O as well, it just doesn't flow right. You have to pause to say it. In regular fast speaking (for most americans anyways), it reverts to "cho-kuh-bo", which is basically the same way I say it anyways. To me, it sounds just like this in FFX. By the way "kuh" is meant to be pronounced like "duh". I would say "kah", but it looks like it could be intrepreted to sound like cha cha or baaa like a sheep.



Feels like we've had this topic 3 or 4 times now...

This post has been edited by Tidu-who on 21st May 2004 03:46

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

Neal posted an audio clip on chat one night a long time ago. I wonder if he still has it. Anyway, that's how I saound it; with long Os.

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Just searched around, but unfortunately I seem to have deleted it from my webspace. -Neal

This post has been edited by Neal on 21st May 2004 06:22

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

Choc-Oh-Bow. i just dont like the way the said it in 10, and IMO, they got it wrong. But meh, they make the game.

This post has been edited by Del S on 21st May 2004 20:19

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"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Ive pronounced it like Chocolate since FF2 came out in the us. My father pronounced it like that and its stuck since. Seeing as how i was unable to read at the time.

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I've always pronounced it with "long" Os.

Another question to ask would involve the stress pattern. I put stress on the first syllable, but my mother says the same vowels I do and stresses the penultimate.

The wondeful, perfect, "real", Japanese pronounciation doesn't really have an impact. It's always interesting to know what it is, but I've always felt that it was terribly pretentious to go around saying things in a pseudo-foreign accent just to sound "correct." (Meh-hee-koh, anyone?) If you really wanted to be accurate, the Japanese "cho" is phonetically distinct from the sound we use in American English; it's similar, but with a large degree of palatalisation (kind of like adding a y sound after the consonant, which wouldn't be surprising to anyone who knew that the way to write "cho" is appending "yo" to the character for "chi"; think of the British pronounciation of "tune" or "Tuesday" for a palatalised t). We'd be talking about this just as much as we'd be talking about the vowel quality or the stress pattern if palatalisation were distinctive in English. There's nothing wrong with "Americanising" a word that's intended for use in American English.

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