/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>my face when I've been on /jp/ for 8 months and I've never played a single game of Touhou

No they don't.
Even Reimu's name is different

>cirno
>sir no
>chiruno

Yeah no.

>>7442574
>sir no

Yowmoo

>>7442567
Yeah, and that animu image makes it obvious that you're part of the c/a/ncer that makes this board so shitty.

>>7442550
>my face when I realize touhou names sound the same even if you use _Italian_ vowel rules
Fixed.

>>7442567
>>7442550
Who are you quoting?

>>7442589
I don't play Touhou. I don't even like it.
Why would I have reaction images of it?

This isn't /touhou/.

>>7442592
holy shit what

Flandre Scarlet = Furandooru Sukaaretto

yeah no.

>>7442550
>>7442567
Reported for shitposting. Fuck off.

>my face when I realize touhou names sound exactly the same if you use Norwegian vowel rules.

>>7442550

That's because you don't understand Japanese.
All of it's vowels are monophthongs ('pure vowels').
This makes them really easy to translate into other languages, because they don't require specific mixing of sounds found with diphthongs.
Specifically, English has the monophthongs to match the Japanese sounds, it just uses diphthongs so often a native speaker forgets this.

However the r/l sound has never transitioned into English well. re: Reimu.

tl;dr
>>7442589

One of these days I'm going to pronounce Youmu correctly consistently...

>>7442602
Then why are you replying to a touhou thread ? Have you been dropped as a baby or were you born retarded ?

>>7442642
'You' as in 'Yo, what's hanging' and 'mu' as in 'move'.....

The only thing you've got to be careful of is the slight 'ghosting' of the 'u' on 'You' (which makes the difference between 'rice'/'dinner' and 'plywood' in spoken Japanese), but all that really is is holding the 'o' slightly longer.

>>7442633
Then explain American English's raging boner (preference) for the "a" in "cat", opposing British English's preference for "a" in "father".

I'm glad everything sounds the same no matter what word it is in my language.

>>7442670
Yeah, I learned how to do it in theory a while ago, but I'd been so used to just saying it like how it was spelled I keep forgetting to pronounce it correctly.
Maybe I'll just take an hour and say her name a lot...

Yo~

>>7442671

You see, there's this thing called a penis.
And people like to whip them out and wave them around.
And that's what's going on here.

But, in all seriousness, it's a dialect difference. Although the language HAS the functionality, it's not always implemented.

>>7442670

Oh sweet. I was worried I was getting it entirely wrong, but I guess I was at least pretty close.

Saatori as in sat, or Suhtori as in Southern?

Just pronounce Youmu like she does here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iZRVnF-Fwo
(I love that video... even though I'm pretty sure it's a guy doing her voice...)

>>7442692

Yeah, stick to the 'pure' vowel sounds (a= a in 'father', i= e in 'eat', u= oooh in 'oooh, shiny', e= e in 'eh', and o= o in 'ostrich') and you'll get pretty close.

Now, the consonants can throw you a bit, but they're manageable with practice.

Raymoo
Muhrisa
Cirneaux
Dayousay
Hongue mayling
Quoikouma
Patchoolee
Sakoora
Rémilya
Flanders
Laittee
Chenne
Halisse
Leelee
Leerica
Loonassa
Mérlinne
Yoomou
yuyuquo
Run
Youkaree
Weegel
Misstyah
Kane
Tey
Udongay
Heyrin
K goya
Mokow
Sweeka
Ahya
Maydicin
Youka
Quomashee
Yabadabadoo
Sheezuhah
Minorweeko
Heena
Neetori
Momigi
sanahe
Kanacow
Suwacow
Kiss me
yamamay
Parsé
yougi
Satowree
Ohreen
Outsouhow
Quomeyjee
Nazi
Quoguaza
Eecheereen
Moorassa
Show
Byakooren

>>7442680
Think of how an monoglottal, inherently xenophobic Anglophone would say it, then think again!

>>7442724
>Flanders
Very nice

>>7442713
>I have no idea what being a gardener really means
Oh come on...
>I'm no good at cooking
oh come ON

I mean, yeah, blacktewi and all, but that's just.... ugh.

Why do native English speakers generally have such enormous problems with logical pronounciation? It never ceases to amuse me.

>>7442776

Because English isn't logical?

>>7442776
Because our language is inconsistent as fuck.

>pronounciation
It's pronunciation.

>>7442773
I still like it alot... probably becuase it's one of the first Touhou vids I've seen. and Youmu is adorable in it.
also : blacktewi?

>>7442796
I don't have it saved, but I'm sure someone else can help you out.

It's that one picture of a deeply tanned Tewi explaining how there's many different interpretations of Gensokyo and any one of them, all of them are valid.


But yeah, I much prefer the M1s, as far as Youmu videos go.

>>7442776
>>7442785
Probably beacuse English tried to adapt words from many markedly different languages at once. Can't remeber the details, but wiki that shit.

>>7442805

"Why Did She Leave the Miniature Garden" by Maruchira

It should be on /rs/.

「今の忘れてほしいみょん♪」

>>7442809
>from many markedly different languages at once
No.
Latin, French(which is also derived from latin), Anglo-Saxon; that's what English is today.

Also most western languages are derived from latin.

>>7442819
Thanks , found it :
http://www.mediafire.com/?wa64ieph2un1hh6