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CoolOtaku
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posted 06-08-2002 04:35 AM     Profile for CoolOtaku   Author's Homepage   Email CoolOtaku     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
There are two ways to say manga. One is like May-nga and the other is sort of like mah-nga. Which way do you say it? the
mah-nga way is the original japanese way which is what I use. How about you?

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G.i.A.m.
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posted 06-08-2002 10:38 AM     Profile for G.i.A.m.   Email G.i.A.m.     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
well I speak it like it is written Manga.

But I do it 'couse the way japanese speak the letters, is the same way it is spoken in germany.
Japanese people just have a different speaking rythm(alot faster than our own) and emphasis syllables different.

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CoolOtaku
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posted 06-08-2002 03:05 PM     Profile for CoolOtaku   Author's Homepage   Email CoolOtaku     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
That's cool. I never knew that. weird....

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posted 06-08-2002 07:09 PM     Profile for Bomu   Author's Homepage   Email Bomu     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I just say "MAnG-ah" or "MAn-Gah"

I used to call Anime "An - ee - Me", but for the past 5 years or so I've called it "An - ee - May".

I call Hentai "Hen - Tie" even tho some people call it "Hen - tay" or something even more bizzare!

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posted 06-08-2002 09:17 PM     Profile for Bugsy   Author's Homepage   Email Bugsy     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I pronounce it in Dutch, which (as with Giam's German) is the same as the Japanese pronounciation. So yes, I pronounce Manga as mah-ngah, and anime as ah-nee-mé (é sounding slightly like ay)

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CoolOtaku
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posted 07-08-2002 12:27 AM     Profile for CoolOtaku   Author's Homepage   Email CoolOtaku     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hentai has confused me for a long time until I heard the main character in Chobits get called a hentai by Chi.

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