How do you say yaoi

Ardent Valkyrie ardentvalkyrie rabidfanssuck - 03 - 08 Previous Share Flag Next. My first rant will be short, but sweet. I am the only person I know of who pronounces the word "yaoi" correctly.

Most yaoi fans, no matter how hardcore they claim to be pronounce the word incorrectly as "yow-ee. Don't try using terminology from a foreign language if you can't even say it right, ladies. That is all.

Post a new comment Error. Post a new comment. Preview comment. YaoiMaster said: sasalx said: I always go with ya-o-i. Sherlupin Offline Joined: Aug Posts: Bored-otaku Offline Joined: Feb Posts: Yes it is pronounced yawee and tsundere is pronounced sun dere BBCode I've seen you at your worst and I still think you're the best.

Alcoholicide Offline Joined: Feb Posts: Swagernator Offline Joined: Apr Posts: BBCode I'm the best. That's because its called BL in Japan. YAOI is an acronym used mainly in the west. I guess you can make that argument with the talking speed but it still sounds weird to me. I guess the O-I sound can manifest itself as a 'w' sound so I'll accept that but even then it's more like Ya-Oh-Wee in my ears. Just completely erasing one of the syllables the A or the O isn't just talking faster, it's changing the pronounciation.

Noone in my country would ever swallow a syllable like that when saying Yaoi which is why I'm thinking it's something american because it obviously depends on where you come from which pronounciation makes sense to me. From a german perspective Yawee sounds very far removed from Yaoi. Bygyas Offline Joined: Jul Posts: BBCode Cross Ange Hey guys check my profile for current airing season anime recommendation guaranteed best taste.

Lavendarjosh Offline Joined: Oct Posts: Not being always the same but adapting to the context is the definition of flexible and that's what you just criticized about english. At least try to make some sense with your language idealogies. Just fyi there are 5 vowel letters you listed but there are at least 25 different vowel sounds that we can articulate top left corner It is extremely ignorant to expect every letter to stand for only one pronounciation no matter the context, especially if you only include 5 letters for vowels.

That would severely limit the scope in which we can communicate with each other. And of course the same goes for consonants too. There are just so much more sounds than letters. What you're basically saying is a language is the better the less options it has to express itself.

Which is bullshit, no language is better than the other, they are just different, but all related. C in what language? Also, as long as my ears don't betray me, I hear an awful lot of actual 'tsu's in anime, even considering the fact that they often speak softer than in western languages. So just having say "sun" isn't really wrong but I guess the more accurate way would be to put and extra s so ssun. Johnnyd3rp Offline Joined: Jan Posts: The strength of the english language imho is that the grammar is simple, english grammar compared to french or italian verbs conjugation is a joke.

Italian and french are probably easy compared to polish or hungarian. You can still have tons of variation of each vowel long, short, rising tone, falling tone, etc. When A is pronounced as E like in "train" English and when written combination of OI is pronounced as A like in "moi" French then things are getting stupid.

That would be ideal for robots but to me it's a nightmare scenario. The variety and ambiguity of language are its best attributes because life itself is full of variety and ambiguity.

A language without ambiguity, would be extremely inaccurate and useless for expressing yourself. But it's probably useless to discuss this with someone who doesn't have a linguistic background. People still think of language as a tool we 'invented' to transmit information, but it's really so much more than that.

Any attempts of prescriptive linguistics, of people trying to tell other people what language is the best or how language should ideally be used or look like, don't sit well with me. It's like telling the wind where to blow. It's common even in Italy, imho it's the fault of the education in the elementary school. It's common even in italy, imho it's the fault of the education in the elementary school. Milennin Offline Joined: Feb Posts: What's cringey about English speakers showing an interest in a language other than their own?

At least they're trying to learn. You can't learn if you're too afraid to ask. No language is easy and simple. They all have their long lists of rules, exceptions and illogical cases.

Japanese is no difference, by the way. That would be: most Slavic languages and Hungarian as well I guess. There's way more to a language than just knowing pronunciation. You can still have tons of variation of each vowels long, short, rising tone, falling tone, etc.

However, when A is pronounced as E like in "train" English and when written combination of OI is pronounced as A like in "moi" French then things are getting stupid. Well, english is very weird with spelling and pronounciation, but at the end of the day those are just the symbols, not the language itself.

It doesn't really matter when it just comes to verbal communication or learning the grammar of a language whether you know how to spell them based on how they sound, or not. Spellings and pronounciations change over the decades and centuries, the more a language is used verbally the more the pronounciations will change. Changes in spelling can often take much longer to represent the changes in pronounciation.

English is probably so inconsistent because it is used so much because it is easy to learn and also because colonialism. In any case the answer is not to simplify everything to the minimum amount of variation.

Most languages have more sounds than they have letters to express them. Others don't. Usually there are rules attached to when which pronounciation applies and I'm not educated enough in english to know for sure but it's probably true for english as well in a lot of ambiguous cases. If it seems random to you, chances are you just haven't discovered the pattern behind it yet.

Letter X is pronounced as Y in the environment of Z and so on. It's intuitive if it is your first language, but not if it isn't. And being able to know how the things you pronounce are spelled is very related to literacy. Despite the english weirdness I've never really had much of a problem because I read a lot of english so I just figure out how things are spelled.

There are usually certain trends you can observe in roman languages as to how their words took the form they have to do compared to the original latin spelling. Depending on which rules, you get german, english, french, italien etc Getting used to those rules is just part of learning the language, but it usually comes after learning other rules grammar. Other languages are the other way around like latin and others are somewhere in the middle like german.

One isn't really better or worse than the other, they just are what they are. But mainly I just find the idea of trying to control and manipulate language under political ideals repulsive.

The whole idea is so authoritarian that it disgust me, and also I just find it incredibly naive to think that one can just force language into a spcific shape that fits your agenda.

It is too organic for that. No matter how much people whine about it, language will always change and develop to the point where it is hard to even say what exactly is a language. What is english? Is it Chaucer? Modern internet slang? Is it only the english of the white people or does it include AAVE which has some different grammatical elements?

GangsterCat's idea of just 'creating' a 'simple' language really shows a lack of understanding for the nature and function of language. It's just a pet peeve of mine. But I also think that getting too hung up on the relation between pronounciation and spelling is really missing the point. Out of all the relationships in communication that is probably the least relevant if you ask me.

I didn't expect you to understand so it's okay. It's still not true and english is actually one of the simplest languages out there, but whatever. I'm done here. Momono Offline Joined: Nov Posts: Pullman said: Bored-otaku said: Yes it is pronounced yawee and tsundere is pronounced sun dere That is plain wrong too.

Japanese have the sound "tsu". You say it like sundere but you definitly not ignoring the t at the start. Hard to say like proper way.