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[Roundhouse]

Ah, I got confused when I heard Testu say 'Ra-moo' and then saw this convo, thought I'd had it wrong all this time...

 

[Tetsujin]

Ah, I got confused when I heard Testu say 'Ra-moo' and then saw this convo, thought I'd had it wrong all this time...

I used the correct pronunciation. It's how they say it in XIV as well.

 

[Roundhouse]

Wait.....so it IS Ra-moo?? Because that is exactly what I hear at 2:55 of your vid, haha.

 

[Tetsujin]

Yes.
Ramuh (ラムウ, Ramū)

 

[ForceStealer]

H after vowel means long vowel. If it was Ramu, the u would be short like in 'pudding' or 'put'

So when one of us writes "uh..." Are you hearing "oo...?"

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Yes.
Ramuh (ラムウ, Ramū)

Yep, unfortunately this is a case where the stupidest fucking possible pronunciation is the correct one.

"Ray-muh" for life, bitches

 

[ForceStealer]

Now wait a second, Ray? Lol

 

[Tetsujin]

So when one of us writes "uh..." Are you hearing "oo...?"

No because I apply English pronunciation to English things.

And not-English pronunciation to not-English things.

Exception being words that have been around in the English language long enough where the anglified pronunciation is the only accepted one. Like loanwords and shit. Because then they become English things again. (e.g. Leviathan)

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Now wait a second, Ray? Lol

You heard me.

 

[Theozilla]

I always pronounced it the way it was pronounced in Japanese, the ră-mū/ra-moo way.

 

[Fiz]

I personally use the easier, universally understood pronunciation of “that old lightning bloke”

 

[Odysseus]

Mountain man thunder cock

 

[ForceStealer]

Indra fo lyfe

 

[Ite]

Team Ra-moo! I’m finally right about a FF pronounciation! ?

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

"h" after a vowel makes it short, not long. Eg "Ah!"
But, ah, then there's "oh!"
Uh, I don't know what the rule is now.
Confusing, eh?

 

[Odysseus]

English does what English wants. The idea that there are "rules" is simply denial of that.

 

[Shademp]

Another thing I noticed is that even though it has been canonized in English that Yuffie's name is pronounced as "Yoo-fee" there are still people out there who say "Ya-fi". Some habits are hard to break.

 

[ForceStealer]

I will never understand how or why they decided on that English rendering of her name. Like, for all the times people erroneously refer to Aeris as a "mistanslation" despite being a perfectly reasonable way to render that katakana, while they somehow got from ユフィ(yu fi) to a spelling that resembles "fluffy"... Craziness, lol.
I've taken to just renaming her "Yufi" in my games.

As for habits, depends on the word, for some reason. For instance, I bitch about the way they spelled Yuffie, but I haven't had much trouble changing that. Aerith/Aeris I'm pretty ambivalent about, I say both depending on who I'm talking with.
But something like Bahamut? I'm not gonna start saying "ba-ha-moot" and sound crazy to any irl friends even though I know that's correct (especially when even the official games can't make up their minds on how they wanna say it, lol) And so far, same with Ramuh

 

[JBedford]

I think Ramuh's Japanese name originates from "Lahmu". The name doesn't match any conventional transliterations but it makes the most sense to me.

Always pronounced it to rhyme with llama. I don't see how native English speakers would naturally interpret "muh" as a "moo" sound.

I also don't think I've ever corrected a pronunciation to match a voiced media after first experiencing it in a non-voiced media. With Aerith I often switch between the two at random, but that involves a change of spelling. I'm still using "Tiff-uh", "Yuff-ee", "Cat Sith", "Ren-no", "Nigh-bull-highm" etc.

I think I have this problem everywhere though. Despite now knowing how to correctly pronounce Japanese and read all newly encountered romanised Japanese words correctly, I still usually end up pronouncing things like "Raijin" and "Nobyuo You-mart-su" as I did in the 90s. I'm not sure I've ever read the common surname "Ito" as anything but "Eye-toe", even though it would never cross my mind when reading any other Japanese name starting "I".

 

[Tetsujin]

I like his theory of Yuffie just murdering all of Deepground before they ever get to surface

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I think Ramuh's Japanese name originates from "Lahmu".

"Ra-moo" is lame-oo.

 

[Shademp]

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

A word spelled "Yuffie" is not pronounced Yoo-fee.
Also, Yuffie is a better name than Yoo-fee, objectively speaking.

 

[Fiz]

I think Ramuh's Japanese name originates from "Lahmu". The name doesn't match any conventional transliterations but it makes the most sense to me.

Always pronounced it to rhyme with llama. I don't see how native English speakers would naturally interpret "muh" as a "moo" sound.

I also don't think I've ever corrected a pronunciation to match a voiced media after first experiencing it in a non-voiced media. With Aerith I often switch between the two at random, but that involves a change of spelling. I'm still using "Tiff-uh", "Yuff-ee", "Cat Sith", "Ren-no", "Nigh-bull-highm" etc.

I think I have this problem everywhere though. Despite now knowing how to correctly pronounce Japanese and read all newly encountered romanised Japanese words correctly, I still usually end up pronouncing things like "Raijin" and "Nobyuo You-mart-su" as I did in the 90s. I'm not sure I've ever read the common surname "Ito" as anything but "Eye-toe", even though it would never cross my mind when reading any other Japanese name starting "I".

If I understand correctly, you’re saying that you can’t break mispronunciation of some names or words despite now knowing how to read Japanese?

If so, this is totally normal and can be really difficult to break out of.

 

[Kain424]

Team Ra-moo! I’m finally right about a FF pronounciation! ?

I've got two points for me now. I also guessed "Tifa" correctly. Unfortunately, I think that's it.