Gaming pet-peeves

[StJackie]

Poker in the front,  Liquor in the rear..

[zxin]

The Japanese pronunciation certainly sounds like "poh" to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbrbpqs11gw 

They certainly say Poh-kay-mon. If Americans want a different pronunciation like they have with everything else then they don't deserve free will.

[P]

I don't hear the h or y. Definitely not the y. I guess the h is silent and is added just to show that the o is pronounced in a certain way, but what's the y for?

People with different mother tongues will pronounce names in a way that uses sounds they are comfortable with.
I have heard probably over 20 different variations of people trying to pronounce my name.

[zxin]

I don't hear the h or y. Definitely not the y. I guess the h is silent and is added just to show that the o is pronounced in a certain way, but what's the y for?

People with different mother tongues will pronounce names in a way that uses sounds they are comfortable with.
I have heard probably over 20 different variations of people trying to pronounce my name.

It sounds like you're desperately trying to prove me wrong.

[zmaster18]

English is full of crazy retarded spellings and pronunciations.    There's no point debating over it. That's why I suck at spelling, not every is spelt like how it is said. I like how in Japanese, you pronounce stuff exactly as it is said, except for a few exceptions. Like don't pronounce 'u' in 'su' or 'desu'. 

[Zycrow]

No no, it's pronounced PHOQUEMOH

[M-Tee]

An Aussie and a Swede arguing over the English pronunciation of a fictional element of children's pop culture, that is of itself, a portmanteau of two Japanese (mis)pronunciations of English words... when there are hundreds of officially produced and distributed English-language audio samples through the animated series and movies to very quickly refer to.

I'm certainly not the only one that sees the preposterousness of this situation.

[P]

I think everyone knows how it's pronounced already (sound clips was posted even).

English is full of crazy retarded spellings and pronunciations.    There's no point debating over it. That's why I suck at spelling, not every is spelt like how it is said. I like how in Japanese, you pronounce stuff exactly as it is said, except for a few exceptions. Like don't pronounce 'u' in 'su' or 'desu'. 

Yeah English didn't go through regular spelling revolutions like most other European languages so it's basically still spelled how it was pronounced way back. Plus I think it has lots of influences from French and French is even worse than English is when it comes to spelling rules. I guess that's also the reason why English sounds so different from other Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages except Finnish among others).

I don't hear the h or y. Definitely not the y. I guess the h is silent and is added just to show that the o is pronounced in a certain way, but what's the y for?

People with different mother tongues will pronounce names in a way that uses sounds they are comfortable with.
I have heard probably over 20 different variations of people trying to pronounce my name.

It sounds like you're desperately trying to prove me wrong.

Believe what you want. I'm out of here. 

[M-Tee]

Absolute major pet peeve:

People who post videos of retro games that :

• are not in the original aspect ration


• are cropped


• feature some atrocious graphics filtering.

[zmaster18]

New pet-peeve: People who call the Super Scope the Super Scope 6. Again, another case of calling the hardware by the software - just like "the" Wii Fit.

As you can see, my gaming pet-peeves involve people who mistake the names of game consoles. I saw a video on Did You Know Gaming and the friggin guy called the FDS the Super Famicom Drive.