Pronunciation

[Shauna]

Apparently Ghibli has a hard J sound at the start, like in jaw.

How does this make you feel?

[Vyk]

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]

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]

Studio Jibblets

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Hard G for life.

[chionos]

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]

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]

Studio Jubbly

[Rantz]

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]

Sounds a bit more like dibuli according to this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../f3/Ghibli.ogg still makes me feel dirty, gib lee is my preferred pronunciation.

[Wolf Kanno]

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.

[noxious.sunshine]

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]

I say Gheeblee. No one will convince me to say it otherwise.

[chionos]

I say Gheeblee. No one will convince me to say it otherwise.

*Fist bump*