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[pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dragon?
« on: Jun 8th, 2004, 4:57am » |
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other message board scripts allow for polls, but because this one doesn't, i suppose we'll have to make do with a pretend poll!
can you spell shichifukujin dragon without looking at it (or without copying / pasting it)?
i can't 
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #1 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 5:00am » |
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Nope, I've tried and been very close though 
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #2 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 5:13am » |
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Yes, I can. Shichifukujin Dragon isn't terribly difficult to spell. Note that if I just spelled it wrong, then no I can't spell it.
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #3 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 5:53am » |
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I can only say it if I mumble, so even if it is spelled like it sounds, I'd need an infinite number of monkeys and typewriters to even have a chance.
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #4 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 2:40pm » |
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Yepp. Thanks, Vic
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #5 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 2:52pm » |
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It's easy to spell if you can unravel the tounge-twister.
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #6 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 3:12pm » |
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Only when I remember that it's shichi, fuku and jin
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #7 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 3:40pm » |
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I've tried to spell it but it comes out obscene every time. 
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #8 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 4:48pm » |
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It took me a while to look at it, learn to prnounce it correctly, but once that happened the spelling is very easy.
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #9 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 6:21pm » |
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My understanding of Japanese transliteration is that each and every vowel represents a syllable, so you break at each vowel. Also, since they are transliterations, there are no weird spellings. Every vowel and every consonant or consonant combo are written the same and pronounced the same. Knowing this, you should be able to pronounce it, then spell it easily.
(I'm no expert, but this is how I was taught to read Japanese transliterations.)
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #10 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 6:28pm » |
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on Jun 8th, 2004, 6:21pm, victorcamp wrote:
My understanding of Japanese transliteration is that each and every vowel represents a syllable, so you break at each vowel. Also, since they are transliterations, there are no weird spellings. Every vowel and every consonant or consonant combo are written the same and pronounced the same. Knowing this, you should be able to pronounce it, then spell it easily.
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Much like Hawaiian is pronounced. Every vowel is spoken. So Hawaii would be prounounced:
ha - wah - eee - eee
to be said correctly. I think this may be a transliteration thumb rule if I had to guess.
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #11 on: Jun 8th, 2004, 8:11pm » |
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I can pronounce it, just for the fact I speak japanese and able to read it.
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Re: [pretend poll] can you spell shichifukujin dra
« Reply #12 on: Jun 13th, 2004, 7:39pm » |
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Anyone knowing some japanese should be able to spell it:
shi-chi-fu-ku-jin
I don't know japanese but I know the rules of pronounication..
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