How do you pronounce Lakitu? I say la-kee-two

>>3345906
Sea-gar.

Because that's how it's pronounced.

>>3345906
Lackitwo.

No emphasis on the i.

For god fucking sake

It's "Lack-it-oo"

You fucking morons absolutely disgust me. Do the world a favor and just drop dead where you stand right now.

>>3345906
I took linguistics in college and we studied phonetics.
Lak would be pronounced Lack, not Lock. Lok would be pronounced lock.

Itu would be a single word in English, starting with the word IT. Lak it u put together would be pronounced, quickly, as Lackihtwo.

Saying La-kee-two is like saying Roller Co-ast-er instead of Coast-er.

>>3345914
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>>3345919
one, two, THREE strikes you're out OP

lick it jew

and

goy mm bah

How do you pronounce faggot?
I say fa-gi-out

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I called Ryu "Rai-oo" as a child. And I ain't gonna apologise.

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>>3345906
Japanese uses a syllabary rather than phonetics like in English, so if you have a kana version of the name, it is (almost) trivial to know the correct pronunciation. The only thing kana doesn't tell you is where the tonal stress is (more closely related to pitch than the English concept of stress), but really you only have two options in Tokyo dialect: start low or start high, and then switch to the opposite stress on the next syllable.

So, looking around, we find that in Japanese the name is ジュゲム... which is pronounced Ju-ge-mu, where the 'ge' sound is as in 'get'.

Fuck. Why the hell did it get renamed to lakitu in English??

Oh well, if it was a Japanese word, then the way you would pronounce it would be the way you wrote it out OP: La-key-two

:P

>>3345919
But it isn't English. It's Japanese. Made up of three Japanese phonemes, Ra Ki and Tu.

>>3345983
Small correction, it would be Ra-Key-Two. This doesn't appear to be a Japanese word.

>>3345983
>Why the hell did it get renamed to lakitu in English??

NoA wouldn't allow an evil character whose name started 'Jew'.

>>3345906

Fucking-Cloud-Turtle

What?

>>3345906

lack * uh * too

>>3345984
Japanese loan words almost always change pronunciation entirely in English.

In Japanese, it may be "La-ki-tu" just like "Sa-yo-na-ra," but in English, we say "Sa-yo-na-ra" as "Saiyanorah."

You better go around making sure people in English specifically say "Sa-yo-na-da" because the "ra" in Sayonara is pronounced more like a da, too.

Jugem

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>>3345906
I always thought it was "la-key-toe".
>hearing someone say "mary-o"

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>>3346162
How do you get "toe" out of "tu"?

>>3345906
I think you basically have it right. When you place one while editing in Super Mario Maker, the voice says "lah-kee-too" with no stress on any syllable.

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>>3346187
"La-key-two" doesn't sound right to me.

>>3346275
Well it's different for the non-deaf.

>>3345906
La-kee-tew

>>3346275
You should use baby gays.

>>3345983
In SMB3 I didn't know wtf a jugem's cloud was so I called it jug-jem.

I say
Jif

>>3347295
t. choosy mom

up until abot 5 years ago i called him "latooky" :D

I pronounce it "lakitu"

If I'm feeling particularly pleb I will pronounce it as "la-KITE-oh" but I generally prefer to go by his Japanese name of "Doki Doki Panic."