| Tango01 | 26 Aug 2014 12:00 p.m. PST |
Nice work here.
From here
link Hope you enjoy! Amicalement
Armand |
| vaughan | 26 Aug 2014 12:18 p.m. PST |
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| Carlos13th | 26 Aug 2014 1:12 p.m. PST |
Incase Vaughans post was a little unclear what he means is that his name is the letter "i" used twice so its "Ii" instead of "Li" Nice models though. |
Joes Shop  | 26 Aug 2014 2:01 p.m. PST |
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| Jamesonsafari | 26 Aug 2014 2:37 p.m. PST |
well that command vignette certainly says, "I'm the Boss and get a +2 in whatever I do!" |
| Sobieski | 26 Aug 2014 5:19 p.m. PST |
"Li" is a mistake everyone makes at the beginning, I think (barring Japanese-speakers). Nifty figure, though if it's based on the statue of Naomasa just outside the railway station at Hikkone, the horns should be vertical. |
| Willy the Rat | 27 Aug 2014 8:50 a.m. PST |
Not a Japanese speaker, so could anyone enlighten us on how one would pronounce "Ii"? Thanks in advance. |
| Tango01 | 27 Aug 2014 10:41 a.m. PST |
Glad you like them my friend. Amicalement
Armand |
| Dogged | 27 Aug 2014 2:37 p.m. PST |
Isn't it pronounced like "ee-ee"? Latin tongues speakers like us would pronounce it like "i-i", Tango. |
| Wulfgar | 27 Aug 2014 6:12 p.m. PST |
In Japanese, the letter "i" is indeed pronounced "ee." A double vowel would sound elongated: "eeee," rather than pronounced twice. Its like holding a musical note for two beats. A double consonant, as in "ikki," would be pronounced in two parts: : "eek-kee." |
| Lion in the Stars | 27 Aug 2014 8:44 p.m. PST |
Not a Japanese speaker, so could anyone enlighten us on how one would pronounce "Ii"? As Wulfgar says, "eeee" without a pause between the two "i"s. And since we're talking about this anyway:
"a" sounds like "ah" as in "father"
"i" sounds like "ee" as in "cheese"
"u" sounds like "oo" as in "ooh" not like "look"
"e" sounds like "a" as in the Canadian sentence-ender "eh" or kinda like in "say" but without the a-e dipthong.
"o" sounds like "oh" as in "open" a terminal "n" is held long, the same length as a consonant-vowel syllable. "-san" (like in "Daniel-san") is two full beats long, the "n" being held for the same amount of time it takes to say "sa". Sometimes the terminal "n" sounds more like an "m" sound, like in "sempai" If you see an "si" or "sy" written, it's pronounced like "she". I think that covers all the basics. |
| setsuko | 28 Aug 2014 3:14 a.m. PST |
Another commonly mispronounced basic is that double vowels, while spelled with different vowels, are pronounced like an extension of the first vowel and not like a diphthong. So "sensei" is pronounced more like "sen-seeh" rather than "sen-say", "kensei" is pronounced "ken-seeh" not "ken-say" etc. |
