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Hi Herbert,
Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 9:01:48 PM, you wrote:
HE> THANKS YUKI!
HE> By the way is your name pronounced Yooky or Yahky?
Yahky (???)
HE> My problem is if we're speaking European or American.
We are speaking neither of course; we are speaking Japanese. ^_-
Syllables (except double-beat syllables) are very short and
'clipped', compared to most Indo-European languages.
Representing Japanese sound using Roman letters is always going to
only be an approximation of course.
Many English speakers think that "tsunami" is pronounced the same way
in Japanese that it is pronounced in English, but that is not so --
'tsu' represents a Japanese sound not native to English, and there is
no stress accent on *any* of the three syllables; Americans
invariably say 'sue-NAH-mi', finding it difficult without a fair bit
of practice to not stress any syllable in a three-syllable word.
And speaking of three-syllable words that ARE NOT even three
syllables . . . (^_-) very few English speakers even understand how
to pronounce the capital of Japan the way it is actually pronounced
in Japanese -- both syllables are double-count, so 'toe'-'kyo', with
two double-beat 'O' sounds, and never, ever, 'toe-key-oh', or any
other three-syllable abomination.
But then, English has this perplexing tendency to mangle foreign
place names, something I've never really understood (Athens, Paris,
Warsaw, Munich and Moscow sound much different in Japanese, very
close to the way they sound in their native languages, than they do
in English). I've never really understood exactly why English cannot
be a Hi-Fi language. ^_^
But for my name, 'yu' is close to 'you' (just very short and
clipped), and 'ki' is close to 'key' (again, shorter and clipped). It
would be almost impossible to pronounce my name too quickly.
Yuki
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