The Shrine

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 11, 2004 10:54 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Ninja Guy-den? I always called it Ninja Gay-den... stupid commercials messing with my head.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:27 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Watch out, I'm about to totally nerd out on you.

So if you look at the word in terms of Japanese pronunciation, the syllables are ga + i + de + n, and each of those are pronounced like this:

ga = as in "ga ga"
i = "ee"
de = "deh"
n = self-explanatory

So putting it together, it's ga + ee + deh + n. Say it at normal speed and it sounds like guyden.

For it to be pronounced gay-den, it would have to be spelled Geiden.

<i>-57</i></div>

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:32 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I know how it's pronounced, but I still said "gay-den", just like "merry-o" instead of "mah-rio"</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:20 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I always pronounced it as Mah-rio and not Mary-O. Gringos no pronounce Spanish names correctly! Aye caramba!</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:40 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I always pronounced it Gai-den, just as it's spelled. But I also always thought Shinobi was a far superior game for the genre, but I didn't really like either of them all that much =P</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:41 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Only Mario happens to be Italian =)</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:05 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>And pronounced the same way.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:32 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Merry-o?? LoL, wtf is wrong with you? That's a damn iffeminite name for an italian plumber</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:21 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Me too, and I always will</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:42 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>All you people that pronounce things weird freak me out.</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:20 pm**

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>more french canadian than anything. So yeah I guess that would be extremely effeminate</div>

PostPosted:**Sat Mar 13, 2004 7:15 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Eight-year-old Americans don't generally know how to pronounce Japanese words.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Mar 14, 2004 1:42 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Heh, my brother used to pronounce Nobunaga's Ambition. No-BUNG-GA's Ambition. All until I told him it was no-bu-naga.</div>

PostPosted:**Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:13 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>The days of culturally-insensitive gaming are over, my friend! You best pick up a Japanese dictionary and start studying the folklore of the Warring States Era : )</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:51 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Or "Mary-o", if that works better for you.</div>

The Shrine

Ninja Guy-den? I always called it Ninja Gay-den... stupid commercials messing with my head.

Ninja Guy-den? I always called it Ninja Gay-den... stupid commercials messing with my head.

I always called it gay-den too when I was a kid, but then I remembered my Japanese pronunciation rules a little while ago and realized it really should be pronounced guy-den.