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Pronouncing Names and other things.
 Posted: 3rd April 2010 21:25
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Okay, this has been disputed for so long between me and mah mate.
Yuffie - What is the proper pronunciation of it? Personally, I think Yuh-fee. Another one that has recently cropped up is Beta. Betta or Beeta? I'm with Betta. So anyway, get back to me on those Pronouncing thingies! THANKYA  -------------------- Does anyone actually like Cait Sith? |
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Posted: 3rd April 2010 22:19
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Yuu-fee and Bay-tuh. The first one because Japanese basically make every u into a long u, and the second one because I pronounce it like the Greek letter beta.
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Posted: 3rd April 2010 22:35
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Mostly I pronounce things in a way that's easily said because I'm lazy, but also habit and my accent apply. I say Yuhfee and Betta as well.
There are quite a few variations in the game. For Tifa, I've heard Teefah a lot but I say Tiffa because I go along the same lines of Tiffany. I say Sephi-rith because it's much easier to say than forcing the 'roth' part, and Air-iss rather than Air-eez. Nibelheim is tricky, I go with Nibble-hime instead of Neeble-heem or whatever the alternatives are. Junon is Joon-in. Ifrit is If-ritt rather than the If-reet that Baltheir says in FFXII. -------------------- Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind. Me on the Starcraft. |
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Posted: 4th April 2010 09:48
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Yuffie - Yuh-fee
Tifa - Tee-fah Beta - Is a real world word with variable pronunciations. Bay-ta seems more US, Beat-er seems to be the UK preference. Junon - Younon Chocobo - Chock-o-bo Cloud - Ee-moh  As a semi-related note I regard Aeris/Aerith as first a Cetran name, and the second, now supposedly canon version, as the Midgarianized version of the name. Why they didn't decide to turn a minor translation goof into an allegory for how real names of "foreign" languages are Anglicised (Calum/Callum, Sean/Shaun), I don't know. I'm guessing they lack imagination these days or it somehow never occurred to them how funny it would be to have the is/ith debate actually be possible in the canon itself. This post has been edited by Del S on 4th April 2010 09:48 -------------------- "Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato." -George Santayana "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." -Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony. |
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Posted: 4th April 2010 22:35
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You-fee
Tiffa Jew-non Choke-uh-bow Air-iss Seff-roth The only one of those I KNOW is wrong is Sephiroth, I'm to lazy to annunciate the I in the name. Because all of the early FF games didn't have voice acting and I didn't have any friends I could verbally talk to about the games, I always came up with my own pronunciations and as a result a lot of the ways I hear people pronounce them now sound so wrong to me. Like, certain people I know say Tee-dus instead of Tie-dus, which is SO wrong to me. -------------------- "We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox) |
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Posted: 4th April 2010 23:41
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Yuffie: You-fee
Beta: Bayt-uh Chocobo: Choke-uh-bow Aeris: Air-iss Tifa: Tee-fuh Sephiroth: Se-fur-oth |
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Post #184846
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Posted: 5th April 2010 23:36
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Well, when I first heard anything about this game it was from my brothers, and I just picked up on there innocent mispronunciations of SOME names=].
Yuffie - Yuh-fee Bahamut - Bah-mut Chocobo - Chock-o-bo Sephiroth - Se-pi-roth Tifa - Tea-fa Shiva - She-va Beta - Bee-ta Malboro - Mal-bo-ro Ifrit - If-rit(duh) as opposed to E-frit Lucrecia - Loo-kree-sha Tseng - (t)song Aeris - air-iz Masamune - mass-a-mewn Behemoth - Baya-moth Ether - Eh-ther wow...big list =] This post has been edited by iSeizmik on 5th April 2010 23:37 |
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Posted: 9th April 2010 11:18
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Okay, from what I've gathered it's Yuu-fee and... well, that's it. I'm glad other things have come into it.
Btw, you know "Typoon", the summon, was that a typo? -------------------- Does anyone actually like Cait Sith? |
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Posted: 10th April 2010 00:16
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Quote (silakachim @ 9th April 2010 11:18) Btw, you know "Typoon", the summon, was that a typo? I'd assume so; he is Wind elemental. |
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Post #184945
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Posted: 10th April 2010 03:05
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Yeah, Typoon was a (slight) typo, Chupon's original name in Japan is Typhon, who was a Titan in Greek mythology. And Chupon and Typoon are quite obviously the same being.
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Posted: 10th April 2010 03:33
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Quote (trismegistus @ 9th April 2010 22:05) Yeah, Typoon was a (slight) typo, Chupon's original name in Japan is Typhon, who was a Titan in Greek mythology. And Chupon and Typoon are quite obviously the same being. Typhon (aka Typhoeus) was not exactly a Titan. It was a different child of Gaia that was her final retaliation against Zeus and his supporters, born after the Titans, the Cyclopes, the Hekatonkheires, or the Titanides. Mt. Etna is supposedly where Typhon is imprisoned. [/Greek myth annoying correction] However, I always assumed that he was named after a typhoon rather than Typhon. Typhoon is a kind of tropical storm, which makes sense since Chupon/Typoon is wind-elemental. The mythological monster Typhon is some kind of fire/destruction abomination, and probably the most powerful monster in Greek myth. Don't believe what Clash of the Titans tells you - the Kraken isn't even Greek. -------------------- |
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Posted: 10th April 2010 10:52
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... Ah. I agree with you on the Typhoon name, seeing as he does show up as Wind on the Materia, although I've always seen him as a stronger Kjata.
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Posted: 27th April 2010 10:59
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Yuffie- Yuff- ee Tifa- Tif- ah Bahamut- Ba-ha- moot Tseng- T- Sing Masamune- Mar-sah-moon-ee Aeris- Air- ris Chocobo- Choco-bow Beta- Bee- Tah Junon- Jun- non Sephiroth -Seph-her- wroth Lucrecia- lu- creed- she- ahh lol, feel silly. -------------------- Currently playing Chrono Trigger !! Currently looking forward to Don't Know. |
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Posted: 1st June 2010 05:01
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you fee
tea fa sef ee roth ba ta Ba ha mut song (for tseng) Mas e mune ee Cho ko bo -------------------- [FONT=Impact][SIZE=14]BLAMO you have been ninjad |
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Posted: 19th June 2010 10:03
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Quote (legendary Soldier @ 1st June 2010 05:01) ba ta Umm... What? That doesn't really show how you pronounce... I'm gonna guess Beta, but even so, I don't really see how you pronounce it. Bay ta? Please be more clear. This post has been edited by silakachim on 19th June 2010 10:05 -------------------- Does anyone actually like Cait Sith? |
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Posted: 22nd June 2010 11:57
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Tee-fa
Choke-a-boo Seph-uh-roth You-fee Muh-tear-eia Corn-erio Ba-hom-ut -------------------- |
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Posted: 4th December 2010 19:53
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Im liking how people have started just omitting the 'Tifa' part before doing their pronounciation- makes it look like we're all just a bunch of nutters making grunting noises
Was very sad when i found out Yuffie was Yoo fee |
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