Originally posted by: Rhanfahl
blah blah blah..
Stereotypical and melodramatic much?
Americans would sound stupid trying to say Japanese words with stressed pronunciation. Americans just shouldn't use a rolling 'r' sound.
Originally posted by: Rhanfahl
blah blah blah..
Stereotypical and melodramatic much?
Americans would sound stupid trying to say Japanese words with stressed pronunciation. Americans just shouldn't use a rolling 'r' sound.
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
yeah, seriously, americans mispronouncing foreign names isn't such a big deal considering how badly the japanese mutilate the english language (i personally find it humorous). go watch prince of tennis when they're playing that tournament against the americans. i guess if mr. baker was rhanfahl, he'd be mad pissed at how they keep pronouncing that "mee-stah baay-kah".
(as for hayao movies, i didn't think the Spirited Away dub was terrible. Lasseter did a pretty good job-- but this is for another thread in another forum =P)
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not really a gift because its painful to watch.
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
How is it painful? There's no new dialogue in there and the crying about the emphasis on the wrong syllable in Naruto's name by someone not even doing voicework in the series is a bit grating.
The guy sitting next to my college graduation's last name was Paxson, and it was mispronounced "Parson"Originally posted by: Rhanfahl
Well, you people are treating the name issue rather indifferently...well look at it this way. Let's your name is hard to pronounce, as my actual last name....which really isn't people fuck up saying all the time. No, when you are graduating from College with honors or something, and your entire family is there, cheering you on, and the Dean is shouting off all the name correctly and when he gets to yours, totally fucks it up, and stumbles over trying to say it 3 or 4 different ways....naturally you're going to be a little...well....FUCKING PISSED OFF!!! as is your family! Its really not hard for the sake common courtesy to try and learn the person's name before you have the ceremony right? So, if you are a professional narriator for a network, and you can't even say people's fucking names right, you shouldn't be working there, making more in a month, than most of us would in a year!
It happens regardless of how hard it is to pronounce. Do you honestly think the people reading the names off stay up late the night before the ceremony and memorize ALL the names for the graduation? I dont know how many people were at yours, but we had about 1000 or so graduates at mine, and mine is a private college. No, what they did for mine was just read what was on the cards given to them. Why dont you imagine having to stand somewhere and publicly read off a couple hundred names in successions of seconds? The whole thing is just an assembly line anyway. If you blame the Dean for not being able to read your 5-syllable name, then you're an idiot.
Right.....interesting perspective you have there. I bet the Dean was going all "chuckle-house" when he saw your last name too, right? Funny how a place that is one of the most welcoming of immigrants and has some of the strictest equality laws is accused for being the most offensive to people with unusual names.I seem to feel that most American's mispronounce foreign words on purpose after awhile as a sort of underlaying mockery, or indifference to a person or their culture....why? "Cause we're fucking Americans!!! We're the best!!! Fuck all you other countries!!!" Now, I'm not saying everyone is that way, but we (Americans) get so hung up over this for some reason. But I could just be upset and totally overreacting. I mean I'm a person who thinks nearly every Translation of anime from Japanese to English is over acted, almost in a mocking way...not all anime, its getting better in recent years. But I can't think of a Miyazaki Hayao movie that doesn't make me want to vomit in English...
Toonami wa kieuseru!!!!
The moral of the story: I dont think Naruto gives a damn how his name is pronounced.
Oh, and to add to Honoko's post.....
maybe i should feel offended every time kon-onji inaccurately says "boys and girls" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
I thought it was funny.. I laught several times..
Originally posted by: Rhanfahl
Well, you people are treating the name issue rather indifferently...well look at it this way. Let's your name is hard to pronounce, as my actual last name....which really isn't people fuck up saying all the time. No, when you are graduating from College with honors or something, and your entire family is there, cheering you on, and the Dean is shouting off all the name correctly and when he gets to yours, totally fucks it up, and stumbles over trying to say it 3 or 4 different ways....naturally you're going to be a little...well....FUCKING PISSED OFF!!! as is your family! Its really not hard for the sake common courtesy to try and learn the person's name before you have the ceremony right? So, if you are a professional narriator for a network, and you can't even say people's fucking names right, you shouldn't be working there, making more in a month, than most of us would in a year!
I seem to feel that most American's mispronounce foreign words on purpose after awhile as a sort of underlaying mockery, or indifference to a person or their culture....why? "Cause we're fucking Americans!!! We're the best!!! Fuck all you other countries!!!" Now, I'm not saying everyone is that way, but we (Americans) get so hung up over this for some reason. But I could just be upset and totally overreacting. I mean I'm a person who thinks nearly every Translation of anime from Japanese to English is over acted, almost in a mocking way...not all anime, its getting better in recent years. But I can't think of a Miyazaki Hayao movie that doesn't make me want to vomit in English...
Toonami wa kieuseru!!!!
that sent shivers through my spine... im glad i dont get that channel, but seriusly who cares about how he says naruto
I really don't see the big problem with the way they say his name or calling Hokage, "head ninja".
(Aeon's Top 5 Anime ATM)One Piece,Shakugan no Shana Second,Gundam 00,Naruto,Bleach
To be honest, the misspronouniation(SP) doesn't bug me too much.
They say Poe-dell, pah-doll, poo-doll. But it is poe-doll. And its Spelled Podoll, people even mispell that!
well it bugs the hell out of some of the members here....
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
well the "head ninja" thing could get annoying......
just imagine the conversation between the hokage and the kazekage.....
"ah well if it isnt SAND HEAD NINJA" - hokage
"Nice to see you're still in good health, LEAF HEAD NINJA" - kazekage
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Ya, you're cool. You can think like all the great "intellectuals" do!!Originally posted by: Rhanfahl
Well, you people are treating the name issue rather indifferently...well look at it this way. Let's your name is hard to pronounce, as my actual last name....which really isn't people fuck up saying all the time. No, when you are graduating from College with honors or something, and your entire family is there, cheering you on, and the Dean is shouting off all the name correctly and when he gets to yours, totally fucks it up, and stumbles over trying to say it 3 or 4 different ways....naturally you're going to be a little...well....FUCKING PISSED OFF!!! as is your family! Its really not hard for the sake common courtesy to try and learn the person's name before you have the ceremony right? So, if you are a professional narriator for a network, and you can't even say people's fucking names right, you shouldn't be working there, making more in a month, than most of us would in a year!
I seem to feel that most American's mispronounce foreign words on purpose after awhile as a sort of underlaying mockery, or indifference to a person or their culture....why? "Cause we're fucking Americans!!! We're the best!!! Fuck all you other countries!!!" Now, I'm not saying everyone is that way, but we (Americans) get so hung up over this for some reason. But I could just be upset and totally overreacting. I mean I'm a person who thinks nearly every Translation of anime from Japanese to English is over acted, almost in a mocking way...not all anime, its getting better in recent years. But I can't think of a Miyazaki Hayao movie that doesn't make me want to vomit in English...
Toonami wa kieuseru!!!!
Don't assume that we disrespect anyone because we can't pronounce their names or anything. Think for your self a little and get off the whole American's are the devil band wagon until you have done some research and know one way or the other. Thanks!
I'll let you in on a little hint that will help you in your life to come too. People arn't going to care if you are pissed off because they mispronounced your name. Know why? It is because you are a no one, when you arn't a no one people won't mispronounce your name. Get used to it.
I think Hokage to Head Ninja is a fair translation for english, I am willing to bet that they also are gonna translate jounin, chuunin, and genin probably. Maybe something like jounin = greater ninja, chuunin = lesser ninja, and genin = beginner ninja or something. And even if they do pronounce Naruto the way the narrator did I still don't think it would be that bad, I am more worried about the voice actors than the name pronunciation though so far Steve Blum (Spike Spiegel) has been confirmed as Kakashi which I think is pretty good choice since I think he can sound like Kakashi's Japanese voice actor. And for the scenes where the Hokage and Kazekage talk they probably are just gonna say Head Leaf and Head Sand or something, it would take too much time to say Leaf Head Ninja or Sand Head Ninja.
I don't know what the rest of you are smoking but I thought the announcer prounced Naruto's name pefectly. Hell thats how I pronounce it. Why not complain about more important issues like how that preview did not have one scrap of naruto music and replaced it with some really really generic rock or how they used generic yelps and screams (my favorite is the one for Sakura as she catches sasuke when he gets his ass beat by rock lee).
The thing to keep in mind is that that promo was produced by Cartoon Network, not ShoPro. The term head ninja may not ever show up except when explaining what Hokage means. The only thing the promo really tells us is how CN is going to market Naruto.
On another note: did anyone else find it funny that when the narrator said "...everyone's a bully" they showed Rock Lee, who has the be the nicest guy in the whole village?
Well, seeing how the promo was just a montage of random clips of characters throughout the series, you shouldn't look into it that much.Originally posted by: GoatLord
The thing to keep in mind is that that promo was produced by Cartoon Network, not ShoPro. The term head ninja may not ever show up except when explaining what Hokage means. The only thing the promo really tells us is how CN is going to market Naruto.
On another note: did anyone else find it funny that when the narrator said "...everyone's a bully" they showed Rock Lee, who has the be the nicest guy in the whole village?
I wasn't reading anything into it, I just thought it was funny.
waste of my time big huge ginourmous waste of my time i think they shouldve kept hokage instead of head ninja and it was a bad preview didnt even get to hear any of the voices just horrible pronunciations
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