How to pronounce GReddy?

Post by **xns** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

How is the correct way to pronounce GReddy, is it jee ready? or gready?

Post by **Chingon** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

i've heard ppl call it greedy. I call it grahdeeh

Post by **Chingon** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

just like how bride is pronounced brid....weird japs...

Post by **xns** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

wtf?? bride is brid??? thats wierdmaybe its cause its a kata kana word, making an english word fit into japanese is a complicated process

Post by **Dattebayo** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

Chingon wrote:just like how bride is pronounced brid....weird japs...

:Werd

there is no fault in pronouncing it any way you want. If you are gonna spell it with 2 capital letters, you're going to confuse people. Kinda like Apex'i. what the hell is an apostrophe and an "I" doing IN the word anyway...

Post by **SeVa-S13** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

I pronounce it how it's spelled. I don't care how the japs want it.

Now with a word like Tein though, that's very open but the "proper" way is "tane." Odd. (I think)

Post by **Chingon** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

the romanization(sp?) of japanese is very much like spanish..so most of the time i get it right...

Post by **Altiman94** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

how is tein pronounced. Ive always said "tine" but i was now todld its 'tane"

Post by **[Zero-S]** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

Its tane, but I've always pronounced it tIne as well.

Post by **MainEvent212** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

actually i'm 99% sure it's "tea-N"

tea as in iced tea...N as in the letter...W :rolleyes u get the idea

Post by **xns** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

maybe this extra stuff inserted into the words by the japanese is a way to make the words "look" cool. According to japanese culture vids they will even sometimes have some words on their shirts like "Hot Dog" just cause it looks cool, kinda like people walking around with the phrase "Lucky Fish" all over thier shirts here

BTW tien is pronounced tchi-en like the dude from dragonball z

Post by **GEO** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

GRED-E

Post by **AZhitman** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

GReddy is just like it looks - greddy. Rhymes with Betty.

Taken from 2 words, "great" (wonderful, superior) and "eddy" (swirling water or air).

Very JDM, y0.

Post by **Dattebayo** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

xns wrote:BTW tien is pronounced tchi-en like the dude from dragonball z

Im sorry, but you are wrong. Altiman is correct here. You watch too many cartoons. TEIN, not tien. look at the spelling, it makes sense.

Post by **xns** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

ah yeah, i noticed that after posting sorry *ashamed face* lol

Post by **downshift** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

yeah i used to pronounce it like tien too, till i noticed the spelling and my brother told me it was kinda like "ten" but whateva. I pronounce GReddy like "ready" but with a "G" in front of it. Basically like how GEO says it

Post by **240SXedUp** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

This annoys me too. I have very few import connections, so i say is like i want. The only reason i know how to say something is if i see it on spike tvs powerblock. I called Nitto "neeto" forever, then i heard someone on tv say Nitto repeatedly. Some sound like they look and some don't. Mods... lets get the correct way to say all of them and make a sticky

Post by **downshift** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

lol a sticky? i guess. But its was kinda hard for me to mess up the word nitto cause it kinda looked like ditto but with a "n".

Post by **240SXedUp** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

Ya, and Tein is vein with a T

Post by **downshift** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

oh....i never put those two together. Makes a little more sense.

Post by **240SXedUp** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

No I'm not saying that you pronounce it like that, I'm just saying its hard to judge using our english principles because they dont always work

Post by **downshift** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

oh....ok well i think im always gonna make the mistake of pronouncing it as tea-n....no biggie, thats until i say it and some asian dude jumps out his car and slaps me...but that could never happen right?

Post by **jdmfreak** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

I wouldnt doubt it LOL!

Yea those Japanese performance companies do have odd names or at least they look odd to us. So what's the secret behind the 'i in Apex'i

Post by **driftaholic** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

it's A'PEXi

means apex integration.

i speak japanese so it's kind of annoying to hear people say things wrong that are obvious to me. but that's just it, they are obvious to ME (and other people who speak japanese). not everyone.

i think if there's gonna be a sticky, it should have links to .wav files or something so people don't have to decode other people's weird phonetic spelling

Post by **downshift** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

i wish i spoke japanese, and spanish. all i know is english that sucks. Well its never too late to learn i guess.

Post by **Rockenreno** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

Hmm... speaking of which, how do you all pronounce NICO?

Personally, I've always said Knee-ko, but my roomate says Nie-ko (hard i).

As for the others, I've always said tea-N, greddy (soft e), and uhpecksee (Apex'i).

Post by **jdmfreak** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

I say knee ko as well.

Post by **downshift** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

It seems like knee-ko would be the right pronunciation in the english language. I think it could also be nick-ko

Post by **MainEvent212** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

yeah apexi was always one word for me...but i'm pretty sure japanese people just say apex...soft a btw...

Post by **GEO** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:37 pm

A-PEX-E -A'pexiT-IN -TeinGRED-E -GreddyK-SO -Cusco

How to pronounce GReddy?

How to pronounce GReddy?

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