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Did anyone else pronounce it as the Dooku Tree as a kid?

>> No.1151461

no, by the time attack of the clones came out I was 15, and those previous 4 years between oot and clones I was unaware of a "count Dooku"

but I'll probably call it that now

>> No.1151463
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>>1151461
Like he said.

>> No.1151479

>>1151461
OP here. I was calling it the Dooku Tree when it was first released.

>> No.1151484

>dooku

>"deku"
>could be pronounced logically either "deh-ku" or "dee-ku"

Were you illiterate?

>> No.1151486

>>1151479
yeah, I can see how an E could look like, and sound like, a double O.......

>> No.1151487

How could anyone be that dumb?

Deku = Dooku?

>> No.1151493

>>1151484
>>1151487
Dooku sounded cooler to me at the time.

>> No.1151510

no. i knew how to read

>> No.1151543

>>1151493

But you can see why it doesn't make sense that you did that right? I called Ryu "Rye-You" and still do but I never said Dooku Tree. What the fuck OP?

>> No.1151553

OP confirmed for underage

>> No.1151587

I don't even know why you're asking. Nobody could possibly have a reason to do that.

>> No.1151672

My mispronunciations:

Deku - Dee-koo
Kakariko - Karaoke
Saria - Sarah
Link - Zelda

>> No.1151717

>O-carina
>Cock-eerie
So dumb.

>> No.1151725

no, but i pronounced kakariko as KACK-uh-REE-ko

>> No.1151727

>>1151725
I'm...pretty sure that's how it's pronounced. I mean, sure, if you wanted to get the real Japanese pronunciation you'd have a more "ah" sound on the "Kaka" but still I don't think it's pronounced any other way.

>> No.1151740

>>1151727
really? i thought the right pronunciation was kuh-KARRY-ko

...well, i guess i'm still wrong, then

>> No.1151768
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>>1151672
>Karaoke

>> No.1151798

>>1151447
Yup, sure did. FOR YEARS. I still do from time to time.

>> No.1151815

I used to pronounce tunic like TUH-nick. Boy did I get a lot of shit when I first said tunic in front of my friends.

>> No.1151832

I pronounced Guile as goo-ee-le.

>> No.1151835

>>1151447

No, that movie is terrible.

And it's deh-coo.

>> No.1151837

>>1151543

>rye-you

It's actually more like "dyoo".

>> No.1151838

>>1151553

And obviously liked Attack of the Clones, so is a real piece of scum

>> No.1151846
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>>1151768
>women touching their mouths when they laugh

Why does this turn me on?

>> No.1151862
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1151862

>That kid who called it a cocobo.

>> No.1151865

>>1151862
>that relative who called them chombos

>> No.1151868

one of my friends insisted that it was the "Great Deka Tree", and she would never believe me when I told her how to pronounce Saria's name.

>> No.1151869

>>1151865

Now that's just silly. Kindly punch them the next time you meet for me, will ya?

>> No.1151874

>>1151832

That's not so bad, my friend outright called him "ghoulie." I myself called him "Goo-ill" for a good year or two.

>> No.1151881

ghoulie sounds better than whatever I came up with. goo-ee-ley, or goo-eel

>> No.1151885

>>1151874

Now that's an actual English word. There's no excuse. You people are dumbasses.

>> No.1151886

Lake Hylia. Is the emphasis on the "hy" or the "li"?

>> No.1151890

>>1151885
Give me a ring when this bullshit about non-phonetic words stops.

>> No.1151893

>>1151869
he's bigger than me

>> No.1151917

>>1151672
Deku = day-koo
Kakariko = kah-REE-no (Ever since I started pronouncing it kah-kuh-ree-koh, I can't pronounce it how I use to)
Saria = suh-REE-uh
Epona = the pony
Kokiri = cock-or-EYE

>> No.1151923

>>1151862
>Visit cousin's house
>He's playing FF9
>Found the Chocobo
>oh man you found the chocobo
>"Actually, it's pronounced 'chocobo'"
>yeah, that's what i said: chocobo
>"No, it's chocobo"
>yeah, chocobo

I still don't get to this day how I was ever saying it wrong. Now when I mention this in front of him, he says I pronounce it correctly now but didn't then even though I still say it the same way. I don't get it.

>> No.1151926

>>1151923

Were you saying 'Chu-ko-bo', instead of 'choke-oboe'? I've got a dumbass friend who says it the latter way.

>> No.1151936

KOE KEE REE
KAH KAH REE KOH
GO RON
DECK OOH

>> No.1151943

>>1151885
I figured it was a nickname, like Maverick or Goose.

>> No.1151954

>>1151837

I've been aware of that for years and still refuse to pronounce it that way.

>> No.1151959

>>1151926
I say it like cho-ko-bo
All o's pronounced like the letter.
At least I think I do.
I probably have a slight northern accent, so that might be changing it.

>> No.1152158

>>1151447
no but i called the other guy count deku

>> No.1152510

I always use

deh-koo
ko keer ree
sah ree uh
nuh boo roo
gur roo doh
nah vee
rah oo roo
dar win nia
mee gah sah sqeeze them

>> No.1152525

>>1152510

same here except 'nah boo rooh' for nabooru and 'nah vih' for navi

>> No.1152830

>mfw I just played this game recently, restarting my file, and I read the Deku tree as Christopher Lee

>> No.1152886

I will forever read Deku Tree dialogue in Christopher Lee's voice after this.

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>>1151447
Are you me? Holy shit, the only people i knew that did that besides me and my sister was adamwestslapdog. And that wasn't until way after my childhood

Dooku4lyfe

>> No.1152998

episode 2 is not /vr/ please leave

>> No.1153293

No because I'm not black and learned to read as a child.

>> No.1154572

>>1151954
>AMERICA

>> No.1154609 [SPOILER] 
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1154609

Fuck this stupid grammar bullshit.

What was your favorite part of the Master Quest version?

What gave you the most trouble?

>> No.1155307

>>1154572

I'm the dude who pointed out how to actually pronounce it, and it isn't that big of a deal. The Japanese pronounce foreign words however they damn well please, why shouldn't we?

>> No.1155756

always pronounced it dehkoo, with the accent on the koo

>> No.1155774
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1155774

Kyo-Kaine!!!

>> No.1157256

>>1151672
>karaoke

my sides

>> No.1157269
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>>1151672
>Kakariko - Karaoke
>Link - Zelda

>> No.1157278

Do you say Mario as
MAR-ee-oh
MAR as in Mars

or
Ma-rio
with a shorter a like in mat

or the special way I've heard some Americans say
MAR-yo

>> No.1157283

>>1154609
I hated master quest. It just made everything very obtuse.

>> No.1157298

>>1157278
Mar (mars) - Eee - Oh
My mother says it like Maer-Ey-Ow.

>> No.1157519

Goron rhymes with moron, which is what you are if you disagree.

>> No.1157528

>>1151862
My girlfriend called them Chock-a-boos and her best friend calls them Cho-bo-cos. At least the former is cute and stupid, the latter is just dyslexia.

>> No.1157531
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>>1157278
Mariro.

>> No.1157535

>>1157278
When I was growing up, I lived in PA, and everyone pronounced it the way it was said in the games. Then in NY, everyone said "mary-oh". Both are correct, the latter being more common for irl people but I prefer going with the official pronunciation

>> No.1158273

>>1151862
I called it a "cha-co-bo."

>> No.1158591

>>1151886
Hyrule lends the Hy- part from its Hylian namesake. Seems pretty obvious to me that that's where the focus of the word should be.

>> No.1158839

>>1151447

Yeah, I pronounced it Dooku

I also pronounced NES and SNES as Ness and Sness

>> No.1158851

>>1157278
I say it both ways. I just don't give a shit.

>> No.1158893

>>1158839
Now I know for a fact you're trolling, because 1) nobody said "sness" back then and 2) if someone HAD said it, anyone within earshot would have beaten them to death. And mysteriously, there would be no witnesses.

>> No.1158897

I always just pronounced it "day-ku".

>> No.1158902

>>1158839
>Sness
Who the fuck ever pronounced it like that?
In my hometown, everybody called it either the Super NES (pronounced as the letters) or Super Nintendo. Either one was acceptable.

>> No.1158898

>>1158893

It was pretty common for people to call it that in the UK

>> No.1158901

>>1158893
>nobody said "sness"

Oh you are so wrong.

>> No.1158906

>>1158902

We called the actual generation of Nintendo consoles just "Nintendo".

An acquaintance of me did in fact call it "sness".

>> No.1158907

>>1158902

I know some people that pronounced it that way. It made me cringe every time.

>> No.1158941

>>1158906
>>1158907
The closest I ever got to sness in my hometown was somebody who called it the Super ness.

>> No.1158956
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1158956

Dooku sound like " from the asshole" in brazilian potuguese.

>> No.1159215

>>1151447
i used to do that too. until i realized it didn't make sense. i also pronounced ocarina as orcarina. i added random r's to a lot of word though.

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1159216

>oh-ka-ree-na

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>>1151447
Day-koo
I never saw it any other way

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>>1151672
Shit, I wanna go to Karaoke Village

>> No.1159275

>>1158956

Yep, "koo" sounds like "cu", portuguese for butt, brazillian portuguese for asshole.

Funfact: Count Dooku is called Count Dookan in brazillian localizations of Star Wars due to that.

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>>1151838
>so is a real piece of scum
or a Phantom Menace

>> No.1159293

Think I was 4 or 5 when I was reading the manual for Super Mario Bros. and it told me a Starman turns Mario into "Invincible Mario." Since I never heard of the word "invincible," I somehow read it as "Incredible Mario." That's what I called it until the Mario Bros. cartoon set me right.

>> No.1159295

i called the dodongos "dongo-dongos"

no idea why

i also used to think the nuggets in pokemon were chicken nuggets because i was unfamiliar with nuggets being of non-meat things

>> No.1159306

Koh-kaw-ree-oh Village
Bom-bu-cha
Do-bon-go
Skull-oo-tah
Aw-kuh-ree-nuh

And my brother called the fairy "Navy"

>> No.1159309

>>1159275
brazilians are hideous.

>> No.1159332

Not /vr/elated, but I called Hufflepuff "Hugglepuff" for years. I didn't realize it was actually Hufflepuff until the first movie game out.

>> No.1159337

>>1159275
Count Dooku sounds ridiculous even in English. Why couldn't they just call him Darth Tyrannus?

>> No.1159453

>>1158956
Even in English, Dooku sounds really close to dookie, which is childish slang for poop.

God knows why Lucas chose that name.

>> No.1159462

>>1159453

He has a huge boner for old samurai movies and it shows in his movies, so I always thought he wanted Japanese sounding names (while failing terribly at it), or at least names with an oriental touch.