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361970 No.361970 [Reply] [Original]

How do you say it?
Meh-rio (like meh..)
Or
Mar-io (like March)


Growing up it seemed adults were the only ones who said Meh-rio. But growing up in Florida, it could be our large population of (former) north eastern residents.

>> No.361986

My first language is spanish, so I never had any problem pronouncing Mario's name, or any japanese title

>> No.361990

Second. Nobody in Massachusetts that I know of ever said Meh-rio, must be a dialect thing.

>> No.361995
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361995

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRO7tAJYnI

I pronounce it the same way his voice actor does...

>> No.361998

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSte8m4Da6A
"Marry-owe"
>cringe

Mar-io please.

>> No.362000

Mar-io, that's how it's pronounced.

You'd have to be incredibly retarded and/or foreign to use the former.

>> No.362003

>Mar-io (like March)
This. I've never heard anyone saying Meh-rio, it sounds very weird.

>> No.362035
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362035

How do you say it?
Sa-nik (like the Sa in Sam)
Or
So-nic (like So Nick)

>> No.362039

>>361998
Exactly like that.
Seems I havent heard someone say Marry-oh since the early 90's.

Watched a youtube recently where a guy in his early 30's said Marry-oh, and made me remember all the people who used to pronounce it that way.

Could Mario have become such a cultural icon that *most* people know how to pronounce it now?

>> No.362040

>>362035
Sahwnigg

>> No.362043

growing up in south-eastern Australia with a huge population of European immigrants made sure I always knew how to pronounce his name correctly

>> No.362045

>>362035
Saw-Nick

Like a sauna.

I think the people who say Sa-nik are the same people who say Marry-oh.

>> No.362059

>>362035

I pronounce it the same way I pronounce the word "sonic", how else would you say it?

>> No.362051

>>361998
Also, in that commercial, why is Mario saying "Mario, where are you?"

You're right there you dumb bastard.

>> No.362056

>>362035
Not to do with pronunciation, but I like how Sega Europe could never decide, back in days of yore, whether to go with the Japanese illustrations of Sonic or the American ones, leading to us getting some kind of mix of the two depending on who was in charge at the time.

>> No.362079

>>362035
Clearly Sonic is a literal translation of the old hebrew word SHNWC which is pronounced schwinweyk. Which is how Sonic is meant to be pronounced.

>> No.362089
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362089

>>362079

>> No.362101

>>362051

That's Luigi.

>> No.362104
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362104

>>362079
>>362089

>> No.362106

>>361990

Where are you from in Mass? Depends on your town.

>> No.362114

>>362089
Nope. schinweyk means pigraiser week. You see, Sonic defeats enemies and releases animals and such, he's actually looking for his pigs to raise and eat, which is against cananite dogma, thus the schinweyk family had to run very fast from natives, how fast? The schwinweyk herded their abominable pig eating tribe along with their pigs a weeks worth of time in same time the fastest could move in a single day. Thus the name schwinweyk was born. Sonics blue color comes from the fact that the tribe appeared blue in color because they ran so fast that by the end of the trip they ended up looking pale blue in color from lack of oxygen.

>> No.362119

Mah-rio.

Since I lived in the Netherlands, I never had much of a problem pronouncing european/japanese names. English wasn't much of a problem either, most media here originates from either the US or the UK.

>> No.362138

My uncle says "Marry-oh" and his 13 y.o. son always teases him for it. "It's 'mah-rio' dad"

>> No.362156

>>362138
Marry-oh is the correct pronunciation. You ever notice that the princess is always in another castle? Because the word oh is used to denote zero, as in marriage (marry) - 0 (zero/oh). Meaning no woman will ever marry him, let alone a princess. Which is why he's an overweight plumber with a creepy mustache.

>> No.362161

>>362101
You're right.
I was too busy looking at a fat guy in red plaid to notice the green overalls.

>> No.362160

>>362035
1999 sonic master race

>> No.362190

Ma-rio

Who the fuck says Mehrio?

>> No.362206

>>362190
I remember Regis saying it like that on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? once when I was in the first grade.

I wanted to punch him through the TV.

>> No.362497

I'm pretty sure he's always pronounced "Mah-rio" (as in "magic") in the games. "It'sa me! MArio!" If not there then in other games. I can't remember though. That's how me and everybody I know says it anyway.

>> No.362507

How do you guys pronounce Yoshi? A lot of people over here say Yah-Shi, but I've always said Yo-shi. Same with my dad and brother (we moved from the States to England, though).

>> No.362539

>>362507
I've never heard yah-shi. Most of the arguments seem to be whether he's Yoshi ('o' as in pot) or Yoshi ('o' as in roll). I tend to go with the former.

>> No.362547

Mah-ree-oh, just like Weegee says it.

>> No.362571

>>362507
What is with all these retards that can't pronounce basic words? It's Yo-she, it's not even a question.

>> No.362584

>>362539
..but the former IS yah-shi.

I don't even

>> No.362594

>>362584
No

>> No.362598

>>362507
Yo-shi
'o' as in hot or pot

>> No.362616

>>362539
I use the latter, simply because that's how it sounds when he says his name in the games.

>> No.362623

>>362497
In hindsight, Maw-rio makes sense as he's supposed to be Italian, But ah well.

>> No.362625

>>362598
>>362594
Is there some kind of bizarre way of pronouncing these words I'm unaware of?

>> No.362638

>>362625
I was thinking of "Yah" as in "Ah" But I suppose that word itself can be taken in different ways. Perhaps "Yaw" would be more apt?

>> No.362643

>>362594
Yes it is.

>> No.362656

>>362638
Oh, well that's definitely not how you pronounce Yoshi.

>> No.362660

>>362625
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=pot&submit=Submit

>> No.362687

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdFwHodXE0

>> No.362730

>>362594
>>362643
Difference between American / British English I think? I'm neither and I've heard it pronounced both ways.

>> No.362745

>>362730
I've lived in both countries so I don't even know anymore.

>> No.362753

>>362114
wow, you learn something new everyday

>> No.362886

I thought SM64 would have cured everyone who said marry-oh...
"It's a me, Ma-ri-oh"
Also what the shit is with Americans and marry-oh?
Didn't you have Italian immigrants? What the shit is that Mafia thing all about?

>> No.362884
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362884

>>361970
I say May-ri-ouh and Whee-gee.

>> No.362904

Mar-io of course.

.

>> No.362910

>>362753
thats such obvious bullshit ,though.

>> No.362920

>>362884
It's said loogee. Like the snot you spit out of your nose, green.

>> No.362921

>>362886
>Also what the shit is with Americans and marry-oh?
Woah nigger.
Im american and the only true way to say it is ma-ri-oh.

>> No.362956

>>362921
Well if you guys aren't saying marry-oh, who is?
Ausfag here, we have plenty of wogs, good food and correct vidya pronunciation aplenty.

>> No.363001

I used to work with an Italian guy called Mario, he pronounced it Mar-io so I guess that's the right way. I now work with a Serbian buy called Sergei but we call him Borat, he doesn't mind.

>> No.363030

>>363001
You mean Ser-gay?
Also Borat is from great nation of Kazakhstan. Cleanest prostitutes in the region. Except of course for Turkmenistan.

>> No.363062

I don't know how to react to this thread.

>> No.363072

>>363030
We just started calling him Borat because he kind of sounds like him, he's always off his trolley on vodka when i see him outside work, drinks it straight.

>> No.363118

I just Mario and Luigi how their voice actor says it.

...Which I guess means I sometimes do say "Weegee."

>> No.363126

>>363072
>drinking vodka any other way
We pronounce it Mar-io in Poland btw.

>> No.363139

>>363126
Aye, to an extent. Not necking liter bottles before going out to the bar to neck triple measures

>> No.363149

Without reading this thread, it's full of people who can't into linguistics and dialects, isn't it?

>> No.363175

>>362035
I pronounce it Sonic.
As in sah-nick.
Like the word that doubles as his name?.

>> No.363197

I used to say "Marry-o" but then switched to the "real" pronunciation as a teen because people were getting mad about it on the internet and I didn't want to seem like I wasn't a real gamer or whatever by saying it "wrong". Then I said fuck it because that was stupid and went back to "Marry-o" because that's literally how everyone in the Northeast says it anyway.

I like Slowbeef's way of thinking. Every time he says "Maury-o" he excuses himself and says "Marry-o".

>> No.363234

Pronounce it however you like so long as it's not something fucking stupid. Like Murray-Oh.

>> No.363323

>>363234
I have no idea, but I laughed at the thought of Murray-oh

>> No.363342

Marry-o

straight outta Brooklyn

fuck you guys Mar-io doesn't even sound like a word

>> No.363353

>>363197
Evidently everyone in the northeast is a fucking retard.

>> No.363357

>>363342
>Mar-io doesn't even sound like a word

It isn't. It's a name.

>> No.363441

>>363353
A correct statement, but not based on his incorrect and retarded anecdotal evidence.

Though that's not really a worthwhile statement since everyone in the south, west, central and pretty much everywhere are also fucking retards. The only difference is the northeast tends to attract slightly more intelligent fucking retards than the rest of the country.

>>363197
Mario is the male gender version of maria, oh excuse me, marry-ah.

>> No.363446

>>362886
American here, I've never heard anyone say it marry-oh before. Didn't even know that was a thing.
What Americans have you had encounters with? Perhaps they were from a different part of the country than me.

>> No.363463

It's like half of you haven't played Mario or Smash Bros.

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363473

OP why are you posting that horrible eyesore of a sprite?

Don't you know this is what Nintendo intended Mario to look like?

>> No.363474

>>363342
So your evidence is that you come from one of central shit holes that produces retards in the northeast from a bunch of sixth generation dumb wop dagos who don't know shit about their own country? Besides most of you fags are immigrants from Sicilian, and you should never a trust a Sicilian when death is at stake.

>> No.363486

>>363446
>What Americans have you had encounters with?
Mostly from inbred italian highschool dropouts trying to be wigger cool pretend thug mobs and eating the shittiest versions of pizza in existence just because their nonna made it that way. They especially like it when you add a dollop of jizz on top.

>> No.363494

>>363441
>Mario is the male gender version of maria, oh excuse me, marry-ah.

I've never once heard Maria pronounced "Maury-a" in any part of the country. I've only ever heard "Marie-a"

And if you want to put game pronunciations in the argument we may as well just say it's supposed to be pronounced "Moddy-o" because Martinet puts a "d" in the "r" for no reason.

>> No.363572

>>363494
You know... I'm gonna side with Luciano Pavarotti on this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=bPvAQxZsgpQ#!
I get the impression he might know a little more about Italian than some tomato sucking jerk off from the slums who couldn't pass 8th grade and looks up to his uncle vinnie cuz he punches people.

>> No.363631

>>363494
I shouldn't really be so harsh on you though,
since
>I've never once heard Maria pronounced "Maury-a" in any part of the country.
Since that's a true statement when the only part of the country you've been in a shitty watered down italo-slum.
The only time I've heard anyone from any country on earth say marry-ah is from 2cool4skool brooklynites.

>> No.363654

I grew up saying Mairy-o because that's what everyone around me said. But now I say it properly.

Same with Oh-ca-rina instead of Oc-a-rina.

>> No.363681

Mah-rio

one time my stepdad said Mary-o when I was growing up. I just remember that for some reason.

>> No.363690
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363690

I've heard it "Marr-eeo" (the correct way) and "Marry-oh" (the technically correct way but totally not how you pronounce it for the Mario Bros. You're old and unhip if you say it like this.)

but I've never heard "Meh-rio"

>> No.363695

>tfw my grandmother called him Marlow

>> No.363703

>>361970
I'm from the north east (Mass) and people over here say Mario (like Maahhreeo).

>> No.363702

>>363654
>But now I say it properly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM0TpBJM97k

>> No.363718

>>361995
This

>> No.363738

>>363690
>the technically correct way that is never used and not correct at all

>> No.363760

MAY-REO-DE-JANEIRO SPRING BREAK!!!!
WOOOO

Mar-io

>> No.363764

>>361970
Bigger question.
Do you pronounce wario as
War - ee - oh
or Wah - rio

>> No.363773

>>363764
War-ee-oh, obviously.

>> No.364124

>>363764
like Mah-reeoh with a W

>> No.364685

MARRY-OWE

WEE GEE

MAAAAAARRRRYYYYY-OWE

WEEEEE GEEEEEEEEE

>> No.364704

Like the Italians say it:
MA-REE-OH

>murrika in charge of pronunciation of anything