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Shauna
08-05-2014, 08:49 PM
Apparently Ghibli has a hard J sound at the start, like in jaw.

How does this make you feel?

Vyk
08-05-2014, 08:54 PM
I always pronounced it wrong until recently. I honestly hate a lot of romanization of Japanese words. If we're going to write in American-ese, why not write in a way that American/English speakers would natively and instinctually know how to pronounce it? Why have pronounced E on the end of Anime? Why use a G for a J sound? When I was learning Japanese for a short while, I had a friend who was completely fluent in Japanese and Mandarin and I'd always have fake rants about this stuff. I guess there's a historical reason, when they were matching up all the symbols to our sounds, things like this just sorta happened. But gawd, it would have made the whole Tidus and Aerith thing a lot more palatable if they'd done it properly in the romanization

Psychotic
08-05-2014, 09:00 PM
I'm going to continue to say it with a hard G, and anyone who cares enough to try to stop me is going to be such a geek that even I could kick their ass.

Jinx
08-05-2014, 09:45 PM
Studio Jibblets

Scotty_ffgamer
08-05-2014, 09:47 PM
Hard G for life.

chionos
08-06-2014, 09:26 PM
Correct. It makes me feel correct.

Although, to be fair, the English version actually should be a hard 'g.' The Italian word "Ghibli" is pronounced with a hard 'g.' It's only in the Japanese that it gets mutated into the soft version.

Uchu
08-07-2014, 06:18 AM
I guess it all depends on how you view the name, as either Japanese or Japanese trying to pronounce the name. I just say it with a 'J' since living here and all that...

Loony BoB
08-07-2014, 10:37 AM
Studio Jubbly

Rantz
08-07-2014, 10:43 AM
I suppose I'll try to say it correctly in the future, but anybody who actually cares if it's said wrong should probably get some perspective. ;)

Carl the Llama
08-08-2014, 03:33 AM
Sounds a bit more like dibuli according to this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Ghibli.ogg still makes me feel dirty, gib lee is my preferred pronunciation.

Wolf Kanno
08-08-2014, 04:29 AM
I prefer the hard G sound but I'm around enough know-it-all otaku that I'm now more used to saying it with a J sound. :roll2

noxious.sunshine
08-11-2014, 03:23 AM
I've always said it with soft G sound.

It's never sounded right to me as "Giblee" with a hard G.

I mean, if you wanna get technical, why is there an H in there when it's clearly silent?

Shorty
08-11-2014, 03:48 AM
I say Gheeblee. No one will convince me to say it otherwise.

chionos
08-11-2014, 08:23 PM
I say Gheeblee. No one will convince me to say it otherwise.

*Fist bump*