Shmup pronounciations, Myths and Legends

Iaspis · Post by **Iaspis** » Sat May 19, 2007 1:27 pm

What about Guxt? Is it Guts'd? Or Goots'd? Or...?

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:31 pm

'Guckst' or 'Guzt', surely?

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:37 pm

Guxd = Guckst

Just like Punk'd = punked

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Sat May 19, 2007 8:56 pm

Guxt = Gasuto
I pronounce it like Guckst.

TriggerHeartExelica · Post by **TriggerHeartExelica** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:15 pm

EatenByGrues wrote:Hey how do you pronounce Dai Ou Jou?

Die Oy Joy? Die Oo Joo ?

Die Oh Joe

TriggerHeartExelica · Post by **TriggerHeartExelica** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:20 pm

ROBOTRON wrote:Whats the correct way to say:

"Soukyugerentai" ?

never mind

So key oh gur in tie!

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:36 pm

ROBOTRON wrote:Whats the correct way to say:

"Soukyugurentai" ?

never mind

Fixed.
So keyou goo ren tie - sounds right to me.

sfried · Post by **sfried** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:42 pm

I always pronounced it Gray-dius untill someone with a PC-E corrected me. I also then realized it was a planet and has nothing to do with "gradients/gradition".

Ikaruga has always been IhKah-ruhGAh

Alleste - AH-LESS-Teh?

MOOshi-HEEmeh-SahMAh

roker · Post by **roker** » Sat May 19, 2007 10:01 pm

Battle Gair (like hair) - Rih - Ga

jiji · Post by **jiji** » Sat May 19, 2007 10:45 pm

Gust.
Choh Ren Shah.
Gah-regg-uh.
Bahtsu-goon. (There's nothing about a gun in the title, after all!)
Giga Wing. (duh.)
Sew-kyuu-goo-ren-tye. (Best just to navigate that minefield phonetically.)
Ee-bah-rah.
Esp-gah-loo-duh.
Goo-wahn-geh.
Rrrrrrootage!
Noise two sah.
Tsoo-mee-kee fighters.
Sigh-vare-ee-are.
Rah-jee-roo-gee. (I hate that title.)

The kana is a good guide, and the only way to go in many cases, but I still let my Western-states half-drawl round out a lot of titles. I'm sticking with Gra-(as in apple) dee-us and Dare-ee-us.

Xexex is a weird one. The kana suggest "zex-ex", but I'm prone to stick with "zeecks-ex." Whatever's intelligible, right?

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Sun May 20, 2007 12:07 am

I usually say 'zezex', but it could very well be 'zeckzez' or 'zeckzecks'! Bloody stupid Xs.

jpolz · Post by **jpolz** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:04 am

"Soukyugurentai"

Soo-Kyu-Ger-en-tie

Ibara = ee-ba-rah
Gradius = Gray-dee-us
Darius = dare-ee-us
Ikaruga = ick-uh-roo-guh
ESPGaluda = ee-es-pee guh-loo-duh
Dungun Feveron = FEEEEEEEVERRRRRRRRR!!!!
Mushihimesama = moo-shee-him-eh-sah-mah

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:37 am

ESP Ra.de = esp-raid

Espgaluda = esp-gah-loo-dah

Xexex = zecks-ecks

Raiden = rye-denn - Somehow I still always end up saying "rayden" (like the Mortal Kombat dude) though.

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Sun May 20, 2007 3:28 am

roker wrote:Battle Gair (like hair) - Rih - Ga

I say it

Battle Guh-reh-guh

lol, Gair-Rih-Ga. roker never ceases to amaze

Winane · Post by **Winane** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:04 pm

GaijinPunch wrote: There are quite a few synonyms that do not requries context to understand...

You mean homophones, right?

Krooze L-Roy wrote: It was almost like he was trying to be comical,

Are you certain that wasn't actually the case?

Thanks for all the linguistics info, TWE! You don't happen to know where we could find some sound clips illustrating the concepts of locus and register, do you? Just wanna make sure my conceptual understanding is in alignment with my perceptual understanding.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:07 pm

Portuguese is very similiar in pronounciation to Japanese (As Spanish is, both languages came from the same roots), so I just say the name of japanese games correctly naturally. Most everyone here does.

In the other hand, games in ENGLISH are usually said completely wrong here. No one seems to be able to say "Tomb Raider", "Winning Eleven", "The Need For Speed Underground", "Samurai Shodown" or even the simple word "Loading" correctly. It's really funny when people start so see letters where there's none, and say "Samurai Shadow" instead of "Shodown" (Even though I think Shodown isn't even an english word. I always thought they got "Showdown" wrong

). Or say "Winningue Elven" instead of "Winning Eleven". The most funny I ever saw was a friend of mine say something that sounded like "Ned fo Sped Mosh Washed" instead of "NEed for Speed Most Wanted", heh

EDIT: Coincidentally, a coworker just found a cool link on youtube with a radio announcer from here saying the title of some english musics... it's just hilarious, we are laughing a lot here.

If anyone is interested in seeing that...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6LuFeAg ... ted&search

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:15 pm

Winane wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote: There are quite a few synonyms that do not requries context to understand...
You mean homophones, right?

Probably, if the fate of the world depended on me naming parts of speech, we would all die.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:22 pm

Shatterhand wrote:Portuguese is very similiar in pronounciation to Japanese (As Spanish is, both languages came from the same roots), so I just say the name of japanese games correctly naturally. Most everyone here does.

Thank heavens that's true for Italian too

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:07 am

A friend from Saudi Arabia told me his friend thought Mario's brother was "Lug" for a long time.

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:40 am

Xexex I believe is kinda pronounced like "sex sex"

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:58 am

Someone should create another topic about this so we can talk about it for a few more pages. One topic clearly isn't enough to hold all this valuable information.

Fake edit: Oh, they already did.

kozo · Post by **kozo** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:54 am

SpooN wrote:If a game name is meant to be roman sounding the japanese pronunciation would be mostly wrong no matter how the creators or whoever calls them. Gu-ra-dii-u-s(u) is just wrong for Gradius, a word which is obviously already a pun (or butchered version) of Gladius.

Nope, nope. It's been stated the similarity between Gradius and Gladius was unknown to Konami at the time the game was made. They are not referring to the Latin word for a type of sword. It's a name they created.

(source: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Nemesis)

This makes me think of the Monkey Kong thing. :/

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead.

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:56 pm

Nice try, buddy, but I took a look at your source and saw what it REALLY says:

And since this is from a free webpage that can be edited by anyone and lists a grand total of zero sources, it is 100% reliable and should be believed without question.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:48 pm

^^ WTF

kozo · Post by **kozo** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:03 pm

Ok. You don't have to believe me.

Bah, I knew I should have just kept my mouth shut.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:05 pm

dar-i-us, just like the spoken intro to Olga Breeze says it.

Post by **spadgy** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:00 pm

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:^^ WTF

Yeah...

That's all really confusing. Belorussian slang for 'cock monkey star world'? They say 'cock monkey star world' with enough regularity to have come up with slang for it?

And Gradius is to be said so it rhymes with Tootsie?

And where's the H sound in Tootsie or Gradius?

And what's so 'predominantly' gay about the game, and even if it is, why does either a Roman Sword or a cock monkey's twinkling universe have to be gay?

And Nakamura has repeated this info precisely 27 times?

A brilliant find Mortificator. God bless user edited webpages eh?

And Ceph; chill out mate. If you hate people posting waffle so much why visit any forum. As good as they can be, enthusiastic and slightly unwarrented waffle is part of the pleasure of using forums - ... as is being nice, tolerant, and not too consistently grumpy or condescending...

And wasn't it you that started this one again after a 10-month gap?

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:08 pm

why does either a Roman Sword or a cock monkey's twinkling universe have to be gay?

1) It's a Roman sword
2) It's a cock monkey

Post by **spadgy** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:17 pm

JoshF wrote:
why does either a Roman Sword or a cock monkey's twinkling universe have to be gay?
1) It's a Roman sword
2) It's a cock monkey

OK! I get what you mean. But lot's of things with cocks (like me, and at least a few monkeys) must be straight...

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:19 am

So we'll never know what they were thinking when Gradius and Xexex were coined (has anyone heard Xexex pronounced in any Japanese media?). But I was floored about the debunking of the Gladius/blade connection. Now I am eternally confused. What the heck are the origins of these names?

Anyways, me my brother and my friends always say "Gray-dee-us." We pronounced Raiden incorrectly for quite awhile.

Dunno know why but Xexex for me is "Zeex-ease."