Mispronunciations of videogames characters or enemies and misseen sprites thread. How do you say "Yoshi"?

>>11869369 (OP)
I've never met anyone in my life who doesn't pronounce it yo-shee

>>11869373
It Japan it's pronounced "Yoh-see" or yossi

>>11869403
I'd probably punch someone if they came up to me and said either of those words while standing in my non Japanese country and also not being asian. Not even intentionally, my arm would just start moving on it's own.

>>11869432
Konnichiwa, dude! My favorite Nintendo characters? Hmm, it's a tossup between Yossy and King Day-day-day!

>>11869403
but that's not how you pronounce the word spelled Yoshi

>>11869403
The Japanese family that lived in the house atvthe end of the block pronounced the mom's first name "yo-shee-mee". I've never heard a Japanese person ever say "yoh-see" for a Yoshi derivative. I call BS.

>>11869441
Well, that's because you are big gay. Also, a faggot and a nonce bungle

>>11869451
Wew lad

>>11869451
you're trying way too hard to fit in

>>11869369 (OP)
Oh shit is the nigga in the picture not pronounced “agg - heim”? (Or “agg haim”. Cause that’s how I been saying it for three decades now

>>11869475
>>11869494
>Seethe cope, kiddies

>>11869403
This is incorrect. In Japanese, his name is spelled ヨッシー. This transliterates (using Hepburn) into Yosshī. The 'ss' indicates a slight pause between the 'yo' and the 'shi', and the 'ī' indicates an elongated 'ee' sound. So it's actually very close to the international "Yoshi." You may be thinking of the fact that Yoshi's name was often spelled "Yossy" (and I think sometimes as "Yossi" even) early on in Japanese (pic related). This is most likely a slight deviation from the kunrei-shiki or nihon-shiki systems, which both transliterate the character シ (pronounced 'shi') as 'si'. Every time his name is spelled in Japanese, though, it's always spelled using シ, or shi. There's also the fact that Japanese doesn't even have an 's' sound followed by an 'ee' sound in it's entire phonology. The sound you're describing just straight up doesn't exist in Japanese.

>>11869597
Holy fucking rekt. >>11869403 never post on this board again

>>11869403
No it isn't.
In Japan, you often leave off the "i" pronunciation of "shi" so Yoshi is pronounced as Yosh.

>>11869605
He literally said it was spelled yossi, calm down kiddo.

>>11869626
you got completely btfo. be ashamed. never return to this board.

>>11869373
"yo-shee" is the dumb American pronunciation, the correct pronunciation is "yosh-ee"

>>11869369 (OP)
if you don't pronounce it like ''Sushi'' then you are tryhard faggot poser like >>11869403 and >>11869597

>>11869640
that's the same shit retard

>>11869639
Nah, it's still used as an "unofficial" spelling by Nintendo.

>>11869623
This is also wrong! While it's true that the 'i' sound at the end of 'し' is often de-voiced, it is specifically elongated in Yoshi's name with the 'ー' character. The 'i' sound is, therefore, always present when pronouncing his name.

>>11869626
It is spelled that way in certain systems of transliteration, yes. But it is never pronounced the way a native English speaker would assume based on that spelling. 'Yoshi' is far more faithful to the original Japanese, phonetically, than 'yossi.' If you said the former, a Japanese person with a decent ear for English, and some conversational context, would likely understand you. If you said the latter, they'd have no idea what you were trying to say.

>>11869643
I'm correcting a false claim about the Japanese language. In my day to day, I just say "Yoshi" like any normal native English speaker.

>>11869653
>But it is never pronounced the way a native English speaker would assume based on that spellin
Well people do say it that way now, because of it. So, yeah...

>>11869650
your original claim was about pronunciation, not spelling
you got absolutely rekt. piss off. you lost your privileges

>>11869659
>now
No one ever really mispronounced Yoshi. How Nintendo spelled it for America is basically how the Japs say it.

>>11869369 (OP)
In Australia, most people say "Yosh-she", just like most also say "See-guh"

>>11869665
People do, because of that spelling.
>>11869665
Well people do actually say it like that. Eat a dick, retard.

>>11869680
No they don't.
Post some proof.

>>11869369 (OP)
Whenever I see this spinning sand guy in Kirby's Dream Course my brain clocks him as Steve Harvey and I can't see anything else.

>>11869690
kek

>>11869685
I don't have any proof, but I distinctly remember people saying it at one point in time.

>>11869659
Let me clarify my statement: Nobody who speaks Japanese would ever say 'Yossi.' If a non-Japanese speaker thinks pronouncing it that way is somehow more authentic, they're a very silly goose to say the least. I'm sure some number of those people exist, but their pronunciation is very wrong in both languages. The spellings 'Yossy' and 'Yossi' were meant for a Japanese audience who could intuitively and immediately reverse engineer that transliteration to their native 'ヨッシー,' not for English speakers to apply their own system of phonetics to.

>>11869648
Americans say the first syllable with a long vowel

>>11869673
Based and true

Happened to me recently with Tales of Destiny: I thought at first that the crown was her face, with the red jewels being the nose and mouth, the hair between the spikes the eyes and the outer parts the ears.

>>11869837
No matter how hard I try, I can't see it.

>>11869837
lol I see it, it makes her look fucked up like she has her mouth open, her head thrown back a bit and disheveled hair over her eyes

only tangentially related: who the fuck goes to bed wearing a crown

>>11869886
>who the fuck goes to bed wearing a crown
niggas who know they worth

>>11869837
also what the fuck is that painting over the bed too? is it an egyptian pharaoh statue? bizarre for the setting and mismatching the rest of the scene

>>11869847

>>11869403
nip here, >>11869441
this is how me and friends always said it back in the 90s

>>11869403
I used to say "yawsh-ee" at first as a kid, but then learned they pronounce it in the games like "yoe-shee" so I stuck with that

>>11869837
>>11869896
First time seeing this; took me a while to actually see the "correct" version with the crown

>>11869921
Cute LARP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b580kCbhZQQ&t=22s

>>11869369 (OP)
It's finny because neither of those drawings is correct
He's wearing a facecover

>>11869369 (OP)
Right one is better, because it makes him look ridiculously tall compared to Link, which is intimidating.

>>11869435
That's not so bad because it's funny but if you said something like "well actually the original character is Japanese and they pronounce his name yos-" I would engage you in fisticuffs posthaste. I'd make you go night night

The perils of playing emulated graphics in raw form: the thread

>>11870101
The jewel on his crown always looked like his mouth to me.

>>11869403
No it's not. There's no see syllable, just shi. Quit making shit up.

>>11869432
You sound like a violent, unstable ape.

>>11869837
basically this without the glasses

I always saw this guy with the eye being a nostril and with the horns being snail eyes.

>>11869369 (OP)
I always thought the poison rice in tenchu was a bowl overflowing with green rice.

I always thought the Kokiri Sword's hilt was made of wood, but it's bronze/copper metal.

>>11870483
I am but that doesn't make that shit any less gay and annoying.

>>11870950
way spookier desu

>>11871707
Says who

My friend messaged me a day ago with 'did you know, i checked the jp pronounciation for live-a-live, both words are pronounced the same'

I hate it. I hate it so much.

>>11872704
my world was shattered when u realized my friends were retarded, too

>>11869597
>yossi island
more like lets gang bang yellow yossis cunni island

>>11872381
The render makes it more obvious you can even see where the metal halves are riveted together.
And of course the fact that it also doesn’t burn up when you take fire damage like the shield does.

>>11872849
>>11871707
Those aren't rivets, the handle and quillons are cast in a single piece. The bumps are a stylistic carryover from a time when bronze swords with wooden handles with bronze rivets were used to create a mould for casting bronze swords in a single piece. Later generations of smiths would then sometimes mimic the look of the older solid bronze blades when fashioning the grips and quillons. Its a stylistic thing in other words.

>>11872968

>>11872970
Don't come to this website if you don't want a swordsperg giving you way more information than you asked for.

>>11869369 (OP)
Most LttP sprites suck, including Link.

>>11872970
Utterly destroyed huh?

>>11869369 (OP)
How can you see right bottom? And the necklace thing looks wrong.

>>11872849
>rivets

>>11873147
Imagine it all blurry and remember that even when he puts his arms down, his robes still stack a lot of mass on top of his shoulders so it consistently looks like his shoulders are much higher up than they are

>>11869369 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iUTZajxlWI

>>11872704
How have you been saying it? I've always thought it was live (as in to live in a house) a live (as in to live in a house)

>>11871871
Lmao, when you were a kid did your dad make you shoot a deer doing nothing, to turn you into a MAOWN?

>Ryu
I used to say Rye uuh apparently it's Ree uuh.

>>11873340
Good point.

Thank you for calling me based!

>>11872704

live (as in to live in a house) a live (as in broadcasting directly)

(as in live a life)

>>11875461
>>11874106

(you)'d myself by mistake ^

>>11874114
No, my family aren't hunters. I don't get why you single that out, it's not like meat you buy from the store isn't the result of animals being slaughtered. Those animals have it much worse than a deer getting shot in the woods.

Say my name.

>>11876364
Can't. I'm still waiting for you.

>>11876332
i've never bought meat from anywhere

>>11874114
>THE LE HECKIN DEERARINOS
animals are robots and you are an emotionally stunted retard that probably values good boi doggos more than humans

as a kid I thought the buckles going across his collar were his teeth. he had monster transformations so it didnt seem that weird.

>>11873825
anon... youre telling me its NOT that?

Deku....I have no idea why.

>>11869597
>The 'ss' indicates a slight pause between the 'yo' and the 'shi'
No.
It indicates a geminated consonant, which in this case would be a pause between Yosh and Shee. English lacks gemination almost entirely except for between two words, such as
• blob boy
• black cat
• bad day
• half full
• big gay [Al]
• judge, jury [and executioner]
• full lockbox
• gum mastic
• in Naples
• clop porn
• far right
• Miss Saigon
• cattail (one of the very, very few English words that is geminated; it's the only one I can think of right now)
• love, Valerie
• now, when [I go to the store…]
• onions yogurt
• his zebra
• [I] wish she'd [stop posting examples of gemination]
If you can hear the pause between the last consonant in the first word of the pair and the first consonant of the second word, particular that in the last example, that's the sound ヨッシー/Yosshi makes.
t. linguist who natively speaks a language with extremely heavy use of gemination
>all that said, unless I'm speaking Japanese to Japanese people about Mario's green dino pal, I'm pronouncing it like >>11869373

>>11876650
Sensible chuckle.
>>11874128
No. It's a single syllable. Yu in this case is pronounced as a diphthong but R+yu is difficult to pronounce for most people who didn't natively speak a language where this occurs. For example, I'm half demichino, half Italian, born and raised in Italy. My dad can't pronounce the Italian word for wheel, ruota. It's two syllables because the uo is pronounced as a diphthong but he pronounces is as ru-oh-tah, just as an Anglo would pronounce Ryu as Ree-oo (or Rai-oo).

>>11876802
>What are you grinning about?

>>11869369 (OP)

The one that still stands out in my mind is how I pronounced Cecil. "Cease-ul." I still pronounce it that way in my mind.

>>11877173
Embarrassing

>>11877176
Sorry, I’m not from the caliphate of britain and am thus not familiar with arabic.

>>11871707
>>11872849
Interesting. Yeah there's definitely no wood grain there like the Deku Shield.

>>11877202
>>11877173
Better than a friend I had in the 90s who mispronounces just about everything in every Final Fantasy, ever. Sea-suhl, sure, but also Tea-luh, Puh-lahm, Poh-rohm and Rai-dee-uh. Moving onto the next Western release, Terra was fine but then Lock-ee, Say-bin, See-ahn and See-lez. He once argued with me over the genji glove, insisting it was a genie glove.
Scimitar was Skim-i-tar to him.
I was happy as fuck the characters in Lunar (he and I also had Sega CDs back then) had "normal" English names so I wouldn't have to hear him butcher them but I will never forget how he said the name of the second town in the game, Saith. He pronounced it like say-eth.

>>11877227
>pal-um
>pour-um
>rye-dee-uh
>tell-uh
Only reason I knew Locke was because I had watched something or other about the history of the free market and Ross Perot.
>sah-bin
>cell-ess (figured it was short for celestial, I was surprisingly well read for a ruralfag)
>sai-anne (crayon knowledge)
>jest-ahll
>gow

>>11877227
>>11877253
So Americans really are all retards with dyslexia, huh?

>>11877253
>rye-dee-uh
So just like that friend of mine. I pronounced it to rhyme with Lydia.
>>11877262
You don't know what dyslexia is, Tard-kun.

>>11877293
Reading genji as genie is either retardation or dyslexia

>>11877295
His argument was that it's a foreign spelling of genie. Tell me: how does one say 'yes' in German then tell me how it's written.

>>11877295
I said gen-gee. Dunno why you’re angry with eleven year old me so much, those words aren’t common.

>>11876975
You're half what?

>>11877314
>how does one say 'yes' in German
/ja:/
>how it's written
ja

Discussing spelling to pronunciation matching with monolingual english speakers is a waste of time. It's like trying to explain colors to a blind man.

>>11877805
lmao
I felt the same way with >>11877227. He wasn't a dumb guy but being EOS, especially an American EOS, puts him at a huge disadvantage when it comes to reading, writing, spelling or pronouncing things.
>>11877470
My dad is half Asian, half Italian-American, making him a demichink. My mother is half Italian and half also Italian.

>>11869369 (OP)
Am I the only one who saw this as a talking fish? OG Pokemon in general was a study in how lazy my imagination was.

>>11873147
>>11873340
>"I always saw the one where it looks like a dude with a dick sucking mouth"

Yeah not one single normal person back in the day saw this. Even with the "le can't unsee it" interpretation on the bottom right, it still just looks like Aganhim only with a different hat on his head