Mayko or Mahko?

yeah like i would stand that clos

trust me i have a lot of experience with taunting sharks

Mako is the name of the shark. It's an actual word in our language. It's pronounced "Mayko". Hence, that is the pronunciation I used. If the Japanese wanted it pronounced differently, they should not have used the spelling of an actual word with a differing pronunciation from the one they intended.

To be fair, it is a little unreasonable to expect writers to avoid using a specific word or pronunciation because it's an actual word or pronounced a certain way in another language. The amount of research needed would be ridiculous, not to mention there's bound to be conflicting pronunciations for words that may exist in more than one language and mean different things.

Mack-o (rhymes with Jack-o)

So neither

I separated the ma and ko and started to pronounce may before the ko so mayko.

Where the hell are you guys getting the "y" from?!

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To be fair, it is a little unreasonable to expect writers to avoid using a specific word or pronunciation because it's an actual word or pronounced a certain way in another language. The amount of research needed would be ridiculous, not to mention there's bound to be conflicting pronunciations for words that may exist in more than one language and mean different things.

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For writers, this is the case. For the localization team, not so much. Which, since the original Japanese version didn't use Arabic characters, means that the original term was never "Mako".

I was assuming that there was oversight of the localization by the Japanese offices (I know there is these days, not sure about back then). The localization team should not have made that mistake.

>implying that the people that translated final fantasy vii had any idea what they were doing

It's supposed to be mah-ko, although I agree may-ko does sound better.

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I was assuming that there was oversight of the localization by the Japanese offices (I know there is these days, not sure about back then).

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I never knew there was a Mako Shark. But the first picture I saw with him was blue so it be true. All those special words with their western version are decided how they are written in Japan already and appear in manuals, depending on what it is, ingame or magazines, so it was nothing wrong anyway. Still there are words that are mistranslated from time to time as the translators don't know it. "Ma-ko" in Japanese is pronounced like the European pronounciation so I would have never doubted that except when it is called "Me-i-ko".

In the end everyone knows what is meant anyway.

Mayko.

Mahko just sounds like an Australian saying Marco.

Makko

Used in a sentence.

Any attack made by the rebels against this station would be a useless gesture, no makko what technical data they have obtained.

I pronounce it may ko. I also pronounce Tidus not Teedus (pet hate of mine:D)

If it's meant to be mahko then I guess it's mahko but naming it after a kickass shark is super cool

first time i heard the word it was pronounced Mahko, so its mahko to me