KH Phonetics

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07-10-2003, 03:39 AM
Meow

KH Phonetics

i never played a whole ton of Kingdom Hearts, but i put a good three or four hours into my roommate's copy last semester. And - perhaps this has been covered before, but i'm new here - i always had a problem with one of the name pronunciations. Did anyone else feel thrown when the FF characters early in the game were pronouncing Yuffie "You-fee"? i've always thought that is was "yuh-fee," personally. After all, her name has two 'f's... :rolleyes2

Anyway, what does everyone think? Am i crazy? ...And has this been covered before?
07-10-2003, 04:19 AM
Jalbrean

No you're right. You are crazy. I always pronunced it "You-Fee" ;p

That's what having voice acting does to ya. You have to prounce things like the writers intended 'em.
07-10-2003, 05:24 AM
Kawaii Ryûkishi

Yeah, I always knew the right way to pronounce it. Basic matter of Japanese.
07-10-2003, 07:55 AM
Miriel

I always pronounced it You-fee. Yuh-fee just sounds weird.
07-13-2003, 03:50 AM
Captain Planet

everyone told me I was an idiot for pronouncing it
you-fie. but the fact remains, regardless, that yuh-fie is a really stupid name, wheras you-fie sounds kind of neat.
07-13-2003, 03:57 AM
TheAbominatrix

I always pronounced Yuffie correctly... the only things that threw me was the pronuciation of 'Tidus'. I always thought it was Tide-us, not Tee-dus. Everyone else was fine.
07-13-2003, 04:30 PM
Meow

'Tee-dus' surprised me, too.

All these damn Japanese games throwing off my usually respectable phonetic abilities... what's the world coming to? i should have signed up for that Japanese course this next semester... :rolleyes2
07-13-2003, 05:32 PM
Sefie1999AD

I always pronounced Yuffie "you-fee" and Tidus "tee-dus". *wins* :D
07-13-2003, 09:29 PM
Shoyku

I pronounce them "yuh-fee" and "tie-dus" and as far as I'm concerned, I'll keep calling them that.
07-14-2003, 02:33 AM
Meow

i'm glad at least someone out there isn't all 'well it's all just a simple matter of, y'know... knowing Japanese.' You're my new best friend!! Let us bask in our blissful ignorance.
07-14-2003, 10:19 AM
ChibiInuYasha

You call that ignorance?! I always pronounced Yuffie "tee-dus" and Tidus "you-fie" SO BEAT THAT!!!! :rock:
08-02-2003, 04:32 AM
eternalshiva

Err... that made no sense... Well, considering in FF VII Aeris was not spelled AERITH, I think there are some initial problems, such as the translators probably never looked at FFVII before they made that mistake *big blooper by SQUARE*

I always say "you-fie" but I always said TIE-DUS for Tidus, so I thought it was funny when Wakka was saying Tee-dous ;p
08-03-2003, 10:31 PM
zacks_clone

it was always 'yuh-fee' and 'tied-us'for me...intill Kingdom hearts!GAHHH!!!!!!!!YOU RUINED MY CREATIVENESS...Ness....nes....
08-04-2003, 06:36 AM
Aya Nekoneko

Meh. I knew it was Yuffie with the "you
." =D Read it in Japanese a while back because I too was torn between "YUH-FEE" and "YOU-FEE." Although the latter does sound better.

And I knew the correct pronunciation for "Tidus" as well. Strange but I never even considered it to be "TIDE-US." o.O; The Japanese pronunciation of his name is "TEE-DA" though. Now I think that that sounds a bit dumb. And "Rikku" is really pronounced "RYU-KOO" in Japanese. How weird is that? :p
08-12-2003, 02:33 AM
eternalshiva

It's japanese, it's weird in general... I say TIE-DUS cause I think it's because I am French-Canadian, we say weird things in General, especially in New Brunswick ;p heh
08-12-2003, 03:52 PM
musashius

Quote:

Originally posted by Shoyku
I pronounce them "yuh-fee" and "tie-dus" and as far as I'm concerned, I'll keep calling them that.

Me too. Personally I'm not a tightass on how videogame characters' names should be pronounced. I'm wrong, so who cares? You're right but it's not like you're getting paid to be right.