/jp/ - Otaku Culture

TOW HOW.

Its pronounced Touhou

That's not at all what a tongue looks like from the side.

東方

Tew-hew

2hu

>>9427317
Some people have boards for tongues. Don't judge them.

toe-oo hoe-oo?

two who.

4 japanese-language 'beats', two beats per syllable, pronounced tōhō.

>>9427334
How did you get the lines to go over the o's like that?

PEH-TRUCK-SEE.

Toe hoe

Properly, it's pronounced Toe-Hoe, sounds like a "toe" on your foot.
However, I always pronounce it TEW-HEW, like the number two, because I like how it sounds better and it's cuter.

It's like how Tewi is properly pronounced "Tei" but I still say TWO-WEE because it's much cuter.

>>9427363
Saying TWO-WEE sounds like Chewy.

Cute though.

This form of romanization is fucking retarded because of American influence. The "ou" just confuses everyone, even Americans themselves.
It's supposed to be pronunced like a long O.
But because they pronunce "too" like in "two" the romanization ends up a shitty mess instead of "toohoo".

>Toe-hoe?

That's the one I go with

トーホー

Why do they use う to lengthen the お in Japanese? Every other vowel is just repeated, aren't they?

>>9427363

>Tewi is properly pronounced "Tei"

What? Why would be pronounced like "Tei" instead of, you know, "Tewi"?

>>9427363
2i

I have no idea how I pronounce it, because I never get to use the word ``Touhou" in real life.

>>9427395
He doesn't have a tulpa which with he converses about his everyday NEET shenanigans.

>>9427384

え get followed by い to make it longer, actually. Hence the pronunciation of Tewi as 'Tee' given that ゐ got depreciated to い.

>>9427409

Eh, sometimes I talk to myself, but I have no idea how I really pronounce the words. I just know i'm speaking English, but if you ask me if i'm speaking with any accent, I have no idea. Probably 'murrican, though.

>>9427392
"wi" is outdated kanji that is pronounced exactly the same as "i" (ee).

like this?

touhou
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0it7sQ2H3nJ

tewi
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0lopwOJ6uOq

>>9429513
You Finn?

I always said toh-hoe, but then /jp/ told me it was two-who.

It's like the Spanish word joto, except the syllables are switched and the vowels are longer.
Joto.

>>9429513
But that's wrong, you fucking retard. It's a long o, not o and u.

Tow-ho

Tooty Hooty.

You just read in the way it is write.
Oh, too bad that english speakers don't know how to do it.

Toh-hoh

http://vocaroo.com/i/s08Gno63tJZb

>Too-hoo? Toe-hoe? Toe-hoo?
neither but i don't know how to describe it with english pronounciation. look up how to pronoucne japanese "ou" on youtube or something.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0nJb7FjOm5o

TOHO

Ta-Who

>>9430012

[to:ho:]

Everyone should be taught IPA.

i'll never get how someone can understand the horror that is english prounounciation but have trouble with japanese one.

>>9430030
>:
u mena ː

learn ur ipa nerd

>>9430075

Because Japanese uses sounds that English doesn't have. We don't know how to make vowel sounds without them sliding all over the place.

>>9430075
its worse tghe other way round

>>9430098
But everyone knows several languages, right?

>>9427453
"wi" isn't a kanji

>>9427453
Ignoring >>9430111
Couldn't it still be pronounced differently? Like "Tei" is pronounced kind of like Tay, but "Tewi" would be like "Teh - ee"
Basically, separating the sounds more instead of making it kind of like a dipthong.

Why they don't pronounce　てうぃ?

>>9430082

Not like you can tell the difference in a normal sized font anyway.

tau hau

>>9430136

Simple.
Because that isn't her name. てゐ is.
And ゐ is pronounced /i/

Only a gaijin would care what it was pronounced like 2 centuries ago.

When eating pizza, roof of mouth is burnt.
-Sun Tzu

>>9427320
Came in to be edgy and post this, but someone beat me.

Japan probably has less vowels than any other civilized language but still you weebs fail at pronouncing it.

>>9430164
>And ゐ is pronounced /i/
Wrong.

>Only a gaijin would care what it was pronounced like 2 centuries ago.
Wrong x2 super combo.

toe-you-hoe-you