ESPGaluda pronounciation?

[Zweihander]

I know this is a stupid question, but.. how do you pronounce Espgaluda? is it esp-ga-lu-da, or E-S-P-ga-lu-da? i know it's (somehow) a sequel to ESPrade, but my girlfriend read the japanese title and it came out something like "espu-garuda". so.. anyone... ? ^^;;

[icycalm]

yeah that's how the japanese pronounce it -- you can also substitute the r with an l

esupugaruda
esupugaluda

the first "u" is hardly pronounced

[ResOGlas]

ESP Rade

ESP Guard





I stand by this, no matter what.

[GaijinPunch]

Actually the "u" is long. Your girlfriend... err... sounds right, if you typed it like she said.

ESPGaurd? Where'd that come from?

[Naiera]

ESP Guard

For me it's always been E-S-P Galuda and Esprade. So I guess I'm westernising Galuda and keeping the Japanese pronounciation of ESP RA.DE.

[Kiken]

ESP Rade

ESP Guard

I stand by this, no matter what.

Guard would be Japanified as "Gaado", not Garuda. Terminal English letters are normally designated as -u or -o phoenetics when they are converted to Japanese.

[ResOGlas]

ESP Rade

ESP Guard

I stand by this, no matter what.

Guard would be Japanified as "Gaado", not Garuda. Terminal English letters are normally designated as -u or -o phoenetics when they are converted to Japanese.

ESP G(a)R(u)D-(a)


Been to Japan over 6 times. trust me, this works. The first time I asked a friend what it meant, he held up both his arms and said Ga-Ru-d. Guard. He was holding up his guard. The secret answer is guard.

lol

[EOJ]

ESP Rade

ESP Guard

I stand by this, no matter what.

Guard would be Japanified as "Gaado", not Garuda. Terminal English letters are normally designated as -u or -o phoenetics when they are converted to Japanese.

ESP G(a)R(u)D-(a)


Been to Japan over 6 times. trust me, this works. The first time I asked a friend what it meant, he held up both his arms and said Ga-Ru-d. Guard. He was holding up his guard. The secret answer is guard.

lol

No, you're horribly wrong. No Japanese would ever pronounce the English word "Guard" with an "a" at the end. As Kiken said, English loans with original final consonants always end in /u/ or /o/, never /a/. This is simply a rule of Japanese phonology.

[Kiken]

Here's the info on Garuda:

http://www.deliriumsrealm.com/delirium/ ... garuda.asp

Again, the swapping of r to l is typical for the Japanese, since they don't always understand the distinction. Not to mention that the phoenetic "ru" in many of the Indian dialects may actually sound closer to "lu" when read (this is merely speculation though).

[BulletMagnet]

I alsways pronounce "ESP" as the 3 distinct letters ("ee-es-pee") as opposed to one syllable ("ehsp"), I don't know if it's "technically right" or whatever, but I don't see it changing anytime soon regardless, heh.

[jiji]

esp-ga-loo-dah. There's really no other "correct" way, unless you add and extra u-sound to the end of the p like the Japanese spelling.

[Moogs]

Yeah, I pronounce it the way the Katakana in the title tell me to: "es-poo-gah-r/loo-dah."

[icycalm]

I asked for it at a store today and they told me it was out of stock. I keep checking every week to see if they start discounting it. I had found it half price once, like, 6 months ago, but didn't get it damn!

[undamned]

When in doubt, listen to the game. ESP Ra.De. told us how to say it, so does Galuda. Beat the first boss and listen closely: she actually says "Ehsp Gahlooduh."
-ud

[GaijinPunch]

ResOGlas -- did you ask a Japanese person? If so, he wasn't very literate. Guard is so far from the magic word, it will stare at you while you're naked and laugh. Gaurd in Japanese = ガード. Not even close to ガルーダ, which is a flying creature.

In most cases, ESP is prounounced ESPA (not with a U) and is never spelled out, which would be the tendency in English. Japanese love to say acryonyms, not spell them out. UFO, JAL, ANA... all of 'em..

[ResOGlas]

ResOGlas -- did you ask a Japanese person? If so, he wasn't very literate. Guard is so far from the magic word, it will stare at you while you're naked and laugh. Gaurd in Japanese = ガード. Not even close to ガルーダ, which is a flying creature.

In most cases, ESP is prounounced ESPA (not with a U) and is never spelled out, which would be the tendency in English. Japanese love to say acryonyms, not spell them out. UFO, JAL, ANA... all of 'em..

I'm just joking. But my Japanese friend didn't know what Galuda/Garuda was. No matter which way you look at it you pronounce the word Espgaluda. That's what the game is named, thus that is what it's called.

[Zweihander]

When in doubt, listen to the game. ESP Ra.De. told us how to say it, so does Galuda. Beat the first boss and listen closely: she actually says "Ehsp Gahlooduh."
-ud

i heard her say "otou-sama" (or was it -san?") meaning 'father', i dun remember hearing her say the game's title. :/

anyway, thanks everyone, it's a question that's been chipping at me since i first played the game. ^^

[GaijinPunch]

i heard her say "otou-sama" (or was it -san?") meaning 'father',

That's all I remember hearing.