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Cassandra
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Since this came up on another board, I thought I'd see what the responses were on here.....
How do you pronounce Di Gi Charat? Personally, I say Deh Gee Sha-raht Edit: I shall note that I suck at pronunciations, so feel free to poke fun at stuff 
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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Sounds good to me; that's what I've always said, at least.
Now here's something I want to know: how do you pronounce RahXephon? Just like it looks? |
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Cassandra
Posts: 1356 Location: Birdsboro, PA |
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I say Rah Zah-von.
But then again, I was saying Evan-gel-lee-on for the longest time.... 
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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The first time I remember really figuring out how to say Evangelion was from listening to one of the CDs in the S2 collection. There were like, 20+ tracks devoted to one guy saying over and over, "Ay-VON---gay-lee-on" in a really cheesy voice. Geez, and I thought it was useless to have 20 different versions of Fly Me To the Moon on my Eva CDs...
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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Hmm...
That IS a tricky question... If we consider English pronunciation (eg my sweet ol' Gimson's Pronunciation, oh how I love my studies - English Philology...) Well I've always pronunced Di GI charat as Dee Gee Sharaht sometime Di Gi with J as in "digi-tal' (my tip, that it comes from digital, but anyway...I'm not an expert...) RahXephon - well as English pronunciation says that X should be pronunced as 'Z' (eg. Xena, Xerox etc.) I would say Rah-Zee-von... (again. I'm not an expert on English pronunciation... had it only for a year, and in RP British English version, but I think the rules stay the same...) And as for Evangelion... ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION SUCKS! I think that according to pronunciation, both versions should be correct, but it is always better to follow the makers of the series... sigh... (sometimes I think learning Latin would be better (tried it for a year in high school, though... (no comments)) BTW do you know how my nick should be pronunced? (a tip here: it is an example for ridiculousnes of English pronunciation, heh ^_^) |
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Cassandra
Posts: 1356 Location: Birdsboro, PA |
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I say your name as goatee
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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Heh, heh....
Good one! "Goaty..." or "Goatee..." or "Gothy..." and so on...
Any other tries? 
(Or should I just say how it came up?  )
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Emerje
 Posts: 7424 Location: Maine |
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Di Gi Charat is pronounced a bit differently than how it's spelled.
It looks like Digi (like Digimon or digital) but I often hear people say it "deegee" with long e's. The Charat is a kinda odd, you say it like you would Carrot but stress the "a" like Ka-rot. I've heard quite a few people say it taht way, especially at Otakon. RahXephon I've been hearing as Rack-se-fon if that makes sence. You have to say it all as one word. The hx makes like a ck and the xe makes a se sound, not an xe sound like you'd think. Phon would be like a fon sound. Again, this is how I was hearing it at Otakon. As for Evangelion, I still pronounce it Ev-an-gel-ee-on because I can't help but think the japanese derived it from the word evangelist, even though I know I'm saying it wrong. The way I see it is japanese people saying an english routed word wrong doesn't make that the right way to say it. Emerje |
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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Emerje, you are right.
In the episode where Dejiko arrives in Akihabara,she says that her full name is Di Gi Charat (and here she pronunces it like Dee-Je(like in 'jabot')-Ka-ra-to, or something similar) |
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Ramen
 Posts: 346 Location: San Jose |
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I've never seen DiGi Charat, but I always pronounced it DiGi (like in digital) and Charat (with 'ch' like in 'charlie') without knowing any better.
With RahXephon, I agree with Emerje. I say Rak-se-fon. I have no idea if thats right. I say Evangelion with a hard 'G' like in 'good' ala the original Japanese. One that I think is an interesting pronounciation is 'Armitage' How do you think this should be pronounced? ghoti, do you pronounce you name 'fish' 
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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And here's the today's winner!
Ramen gets the top prize! You're right! ^_^ It should be pronunced FISH, but I don't mind people pronouncing it as it suits them... I usually pronounce it as it goes,so... Bravo, Ramen! BTW Did you also read the statement by (I think it was) G.B. Shaw where he proves English to be absurd? |
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Former ANN Editor in Chief
 Posts: 2460 Location: Do not contact me for support. |
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my pronunciations:
digicharat - deh ('deh' as in 'debby') gee (as in the letter 'g') karat (as in 24 karat gold) rahxephon - rah (_ra_bbit) zeh (_ze_n) fawn evangelion - evan (Evan, as in the name) gel (as in '_g_oo' and 'w_ell_') e (as in the letter 'e') on it should be noted that the pronunciation of digicharat comes from the its katakana subtitle: "de ji kyaratto" |
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Stray Dog Strut
Posts: 18 Location: New Jersey |
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Ghoti wrote:
Was that the dealy where he said that your name, ghoti, would work out to sound like fish because: the "gh" like in the word enouGH sound like an "F" and then the "o" found in a word such as wOmen makes an "I" sound and the "ti" as in emoTIon are pronounced as "SH" so ghoti=GH+O+TI = F+I+SH=fish I knew that being an English major would come in handy one of these days. ^_^ |
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ghoti
Posts: 101 Location: Poland |
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Stray Dog Strut, it's exactly this thing, that you are quoting!
Oh, well, the nick isn't that "mystical" as I thought after all...
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Case
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I've never heard the original Japanese version, but in the English dub (adaptation?) of Poly-Matrix it's pronounced just like it looks. Ar-mih-tidge
Heh heh... I didn't learn that one until last spring. And oddly enough, I learned it from a self-professed non-fan. Not that it surprises me, considering my utter lack of interest in the series since I saw Pen-Pen's introductory episode way back when... 
Here's another hard one I just learned a few days ago: El Hazard. El ha-ZARD They never make anything easy anymore, do they. 
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