ITG song pronunciation conversation thread

'Ivan · Trick Member Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Location: Thailand

I was around 1 or 2 years ago for one of those those arguments, and incidentally 1 or 2 years ago I was taking Japanese I. I ended up asking my teacher about it to shut everyone up.

Tsoo-Gah-Roo.

EDIT: The only reason I put "soo-gah-roo" is because I had no idea how to phonetically write "tsu", I swear.
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Soda · Trick Member Joined: 05 Apr 2005

I was taking Japanese I last year too, and they definately wouldn't have separate syllables for "tsu" and "su" if they were pronounced the same.

'Ivan · Trick Member Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Location: Thailand

I stand corrected. But it's hard to phonetically write/type "tsu"!

"Tsoo"?

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Malice913150 · Trick Member Joined: 01 Apr 2005

i cant get used to "shoe sha" im used to zook za

TSOO-gah-ro
wered some people get the TAH SU from?

Shinmizu · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject:

V~forVampy~ · Trick Member Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Location: Oaklandhoma

I've always pronounced it as Su-sa or Shu-sha.

And a Japanese friend of mine doesn't pronounce much of the "u" in tsugaru. su can be pronounced like an "s" with a sligh "uh" at the end"
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NekoSempai~ · Trick Member Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Location: Augusta, GA

i always said Zoo-Za, so it's good to know the actual way its pronounced. However, things i've heard DDR-wise in reference to horrible pronounciations.

Tsugaru -
*TA-SOO-GA-ROO
*TSUG-AUH-RO

Sakura
This being a favorite being that i took japanese up to 6 in high school, and few can pronunce this in arcades with a proper japanese accent.

*Suh-krr-ra
*Sah-ko-ra
and my favorite
*The Sign
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject:

My mom learned Japanese as a kid and says Sakura:

Sah-Coo-Lah.
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Rancidfish · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject:

'Ivan · Trick Member Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Location: Thailand

Ah, isn't there no differentiation beteen the letters L and R in the Japanese language, sort of like the whole "fu" and "hu" deal?
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Rancidfish · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject:

Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject:

My mother just has a Japanese-esque/Asian accent sometimes when she speaks English so that her l's sound like r's and vice versa.
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NekoSempai~ · Trick Member Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Location: Augusta, GA

yeah, the l sound doesn't exist in japanese language.

for the *ra* syllible in sakura, it sounds kind of like you're about to roll your tongue as you say the syllible. Like somewhere between an r and a d sound.

It's hard to describe

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matakaws · Basic Member Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: Philippines

Xuxa=suk-sha
tsugaru=ti-su-ga-ru
sakura=simple, sa-ku-ra

how aboout....oasis?

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SanaMoretteNeEnte · Basic Member Joined: 21 May 2005

well if i remeber correctly the letter X does not make the "ex" noise unless theres an e in front :\
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Tobias Preener · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject:

i say "zoo-xa" (zoo-ksa)
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:

Brick Tamland(LoveRevenG) · Trick Member Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: NC

Alrighty, this thread went in COMPLETLEY wrong direction and I'm asking for a request lock on my own thread before anyone does any flaming over a little thing like tsugaru.

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tac-tics · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:16 am Post subject:

You shouldn't have put Tsugaru in the title of this thread in the first place.....

The 't' is pronounce in Japanese, but "ts" does not appear at the start of any native English words, so people don't like to pronounce it that way.

I want to know how people pronounce "!". My stepfile for it is labeled "bang" and I've seen it called "bang" before on the forums... but how do you get "bang" out of "!"?

BTW, best sentence ever:
Have you ever played !? X-D
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Mr. A · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: INTERNET

I thought it was "zuck-zah"