Tiedus or Teedus

[Carl the Llama]

Teedus comes naturally to me in my language, so that's what I say. That's also what you get when you pronounce "i" like "i", not lie "ai". Silly english.

So you say eet and een do you? And you say my language is silly? >.>

Hello eenkeeper, ee would like air conditioning een my room, do you have eet? xD

Tyedus FTW!

Personally I think i should be pronounced differently based the word you are using, there shouldn't be a definite way to pronounce 1 letter in cases like this.

[Fynn]

In an ideal language, one phoneme has one equivalent grapheme and everyone is happy. English doesn't have that due to the weird way it evolved. Mostly due to French influence. If you look into the history of English, you'll see that Old English is pretty straightforward in that regard, it's in Middle English where things start to get messed up (keep in mind neither Old English or Middle English refers to what most people refer to as "Old English", as then they usually mean Shakespearean English, which is actually Early Contemporary English).

That said, Tidus's name is not of English origin, therefore, English phono tactic rules do not apply. You don't pronounce Czech as "see-zek".

[Carl the Llama]

That said, Tidus's name is not of English origin, therefore, English phono tactic rules do not apply. You don't pronounce Czech as "see-zek".

Neither is Mika but the game pronounces it Myka... once it gets translated to English the pronunciation should be of that language as well, I could list a whole load of other examples, like Seifer, the e in japanese should be pronounced like the e in hey, but isn't... go figure.

[Fynn]

Can't argue with Mika, but Seifer was meant to be Germanic-ish, so here the Japanese got it "wrong".

[Pike]

Tye-dus:

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Tee-dus:

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[Loony BoB]

Tie-dus. Fixed your poll/thread title!

[Karifean]

Since Teedus (albeit with short "ee", so more like Ti-dus) is the natural way to pronounce it in my language, I've been saying that since forever.

[Fynn]

Why don't we all agree to call him Meg Ryan?

[Mirage]

Teedus comes naturally to me in my language, so that's what I say. That's also what you get when you pronounce "i" like "i", not lie "ai". Silly english.

So you say eet and een do you? And you say my language is silly? >.>

Hello eenkeeper, ee would like air conditioning een my room, do you have eet? xD

Tyedus FTW!

Personally I think i should be pronounced differently based the word you are using, there shouldn't be a definite way to pronounce 1 letter in cases like this.

No because I don't use those words in my language. And that's a problem with english. There's so little consistency in how letters are pronounced. Instead of using different letters for certain sounds you just make tons of arbitrary rules like "in this specific case c is actually pronounced like "durp" and y is pronounced "i am numbskull"".

[Carl the Llama]

Why don't we all agree to call him Meg Ryan?

I have done this in my current playthrough!

[Shorty]

Why is everyone excusing the pronounciation because that's what the Japanese want it to be that way? I don't care!

[black orb]

>>> For me is Tee-doos or tea-doos, thats how you spell "Tidus" in my language (english phonetics are smurfed up)..

[Mirage]

Actually it is pronounced "tedious"

[black orb]

>>> Some people say "tie-dust", those are the worst..

[Fynn]

Titty-uss? TAR-dus? The possibilities are endless!

Also, when you say Tied us, it sounds like his name is "Titus". Which it isn't.