I wanted to know how to say two things:

first, is the "Mu" in Mugen "Moo" or "Myu"? And, is the "gen" pronounced like a hard G (gun) or a soft G (George)?

And, do you pronounce the little "i" at the end of APEX'i?

Thanks for helping a retard out fellas.

 

its mooooooo and GGGGGen as in gun. the characters in chinese mean infinte....so infinite speed and or power.

 

m00gen...short "00" and hard "G"

apex-i

HTH

 

yeah how about Apex-i? i heard some japanese guy call it Ahhh Pex..thats it. anyone else?

 

the "i" in a'pex is not usually pronounced, because the company is apex, and it is pronounced A (like in Ace) = pex. so Apex

 

"Ahh-pecs" is the JDM-land style

yoshi - who is USDM, but 'rents are JDM

 

Cool thanks guys. For a while I was saying "Myoo-Jen".

 

If it makes you feel any better, the Japanese mangle pronunciations far worse than us - case in point:

super=supa
Civic = Shibbiku


[Modified by kengs, 10:15 PM 6/29/2001]

 

Don't forget, 5-Zigen is "Go Zigen"!
And those roof-racks, Thule, are "Too-lay"
And if you say "Oh I no R net-see tae kuray doo-ka" in a very gruff voice, You're saying "Can you keep up with my R?!?" in japanese! (gotta love Initial D, wish i knew what the actual words were)

 

something of note:
in mugen, the accent is on the second syllable.

 

Yeah I know what you mean. I once read something on fucked-up japanese pronunciation of American words - they had a restaurant in Japan called "grilled children" or something like that...the "children" was supposed to be "chicken".

Ross - who insists on pronouncing the Japanese counts right in his Karate class

 

actually 5-Zigen is pronounced "Go-Jigen"

and what's "Oh I no R net-see tae kuray doo-ka", b/c it sure ain japanese... it should be "ore no aaru to tsuite ikeruka!"

yoshi - who's watched all the Initial D series and understood every single word

 

nice thanks sgT

 

Dammit Yoshi, I'm jealous.

Just once I want to watch one of the Soft On Demand vids and understand what they're talking about

 

Sweet, now I know how to write it too! Thanks Yosh, you're the bomb-diggity. My high-school french isn't that hip in the import racer scene..."j'ai besoin de NOS!" doesn't quite get the ole engines revving...
and my horrible phonetic spelling was the best i could do, forgive me for butchering several thousand years of culture in one fell swoop

 

I have heard that in Japan (ACURA) isn't pronounced the way we say it.
Its (Uh-Ker-Ah) ????


Indy - Who is going to kill a few good men who keep's speaking in 3rd Person.

 

ACURA:
eng = a (as in apple)-cure-a
jdm = ah-kyu-la

yoshi - who feels like a japanese teacher today

 

Get jiggy????lol

 

I thought Mugen meant "unlimited"? I read that somewhere...