let's settle this tired debate once and for all. how is

co-nammy

Oh-NAM-EE

kaw-niae-mue

>>3626763
"co" as in "company"
"na" as in "name"
"mi" as in "me"

>>3626779
>"na" as in "name"

So, Ko-Ney-Mi?

>>3626782
Yes.

Co-nah-me

ko as in coke
nam as in vietnam(nAHm)
mi as in me

Co-mommy

>>3626763
Cap-com

KAY-onah-MI

>>3626763
Japanese has very rigid pronunciation rules so that makes this easy.

Ko-Nah-Mee

>>3626763
Pa-Chin-Ko

>>3626763
コ・ナ・ミ

>>3626843
Literally this.

>>3626836
Can't understand today's kids that don't understand this.

Kuh-naw-me

>>3626763
>not pronouncing it Kay-Oh-En-Ay-Em-Aye-Registered

>>3626763
Has it ever been pronounced differently than Ko-nom-e?

>>3626843
コ↑ナ→ミ→ or コ→ナ↑ミ↓ ?

>>3626896
They do, this thread was bait

START TALKING BITCH

>>3626763
koh-nah me

Cone army

>>3626786
stop applying English pronounciation to the word. It's "Na" as in "nah"

>>3626763
koh-nah-mee

>>3627010
>Cone army

Kek. I guess if you make a company by such a name and they C&D you, then we'll have proof that the pronunciation is indeed correct.

>>3626763
Ko-na-mi

>>3626927
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGAn3Zr_7Q @ 0:28

For those who actually know pronounciation:

'kɔnæmI

Fuck, last letter is supposed to be the majuscule "i" but 4chan won't have it

http://forvo.com/word/konami/#ja

>>3626763
Pachinko

>>3627585
Like this İ?

>>3627585
You sure the accent is on the first syllable rather than the second? Sounds a bit weird/counterintuitive tbqh.

It's "konami".

I'm glad in Finnish words are pronounced like they are written, similar to Japanese.

>>3627634
How is Nokia pronounced?

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>>3627606
Really hm, most proper nouns have the accent on the first syllable in English AFAIK, but you could be right, in which case the ɔ would be a shwa, so

kəˈnæmi

though honestly that sounds weirder to me than 'kɔnæmi, but who knows, the japs who came up with the name probably pronounce it differently.

>>3627605
No, this one, for some reason 4chan won't have it

>>3626763
https://translate.google.com/?um=1&ie=UTF-8&client=tw-ob#en/ja/Konami

>>3627606
>>3627657
I mean, there are exceptions though, but IIRC the 'rule' for three syllables words is to have the accent on the 2nd syllable.
However, proper nouns are exceptions and have the accent on the first syllable, like in Canada for instance. I thinking Konami would deserve the same treatment; although there are exceptions to that too.

>>3627649
No-ki-a

"No" as in "nod", "ki" as in "kill", "a" as in "cinema"

>>3627665
"No"

>>>/wsg/1404333

Koh-nuh-mai

kuh-nim-ay

Fuck you cunt's are idiots.

>>3626763
just like in japanese. たわごと

>>3628073
Not idiots, just Americans. I'd rather be an idiot tbfwy

>>3627665
>Nokia Corporation[4] (Finnish: Nokia Oyj, Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnokiɑ], UK /ˈnɒkiə/, US /ˈnoʊkiə/), stylised as NOKIA, is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology company, founded in 1865.

????

retards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=319YfyvZtKU

Koh-nah-mee

There's literally no more than one way to pronounce anything in Japanese.
Konami is Konami.

>implying there is a debate at all

CO
NA
ME

>>3626763
Con-Am-I

Co-Naomi

>>3628628
yea this. even if you said it different this phonetically how it would be pronounced in japanese.

>>3626763
Con-name-ee

>>3629034
>phonetically

Except those are not phonetic syllables so different people may pronounce them differently, even in English.

>>3626763
(The way you pronounce "or" without the r) - nah - mee.

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>>3628708
>Con-Am-I

>>3627634
kek
all those americans struggling to speak a simple japanese word when pronunciation in my native tongue is almost identical

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>>3626763
cuh- nom-E

>this thread
Holy shit native english speakers fucking suck at pronouncing japanese

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Not anymore.

>>3626763
koh-NAH-mee

>>3626763
кoнaми

>>3629249
KOH NAH HAMAI RUUUU

DOO, DOO, DOO, DOO DOO DOO

>>3626763
Nee-O-Gee-O
or
Nay-O-Gay-O

>>3629812

Nwguh Aeough Shay-Aoeuw.

>>3626837
kek

>>3626763
no-money

>>3629812
nhai (hai while breathing in) ooo (breathing in) dgjeeo (spoken fast)

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>>3629812
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ネオジオ
so it's Nay-O-Gee-O

Cone-ah-mee

>>3626836
>Mee
Indicates a prolonged 'ee' sound, therefore incorrect. The Japanese 'mi' is the same sound in the name Mick. Rhymes with dick.

>>3630205
>ネ
>nay
It's Japanese, not French you homo. Why do Americans always get the 'e' sounds wrong? It's the 'ne' sound from 'next'. 'E' sounds are never pronounced 'ay'.

>>3630498
>It's Japanese, not French you homo. Why do Americans always get the 'e' sounds wrong? It's the 'ne' sound from 'next'. 'E' sounds are never pronounced 'ay'.
I'm simplifying it because it flows to the next letter which is an O, and it's the easiest I can think of because americans have no actual E sound.

Oo-Mah-Mi

>>3626763
kɔːnämi

ɔː is a mid back rounded vowel, like how a British person pronounces the "ough" in "thought", but similar to a long o as in "pope" so you can just do that; ä is an open central unrounded vowel like how most Americans pronounce "cot," or just a long "a" as in "father"; i is a close front unrounded vowel, pronounced like "ee".

I honestly didn't know this was in dispute.

Co nhah mee

>>3630516
They do have the e sound but it's permanently stuck inside a diphtong, they can't pronounce it separately.

There's no debate. There's nothing to settle. It's pronounced コナミ.

You don't need a fucking degree in Japanese to know this shit.

>>3627585
There's no fucking æ sound in there, dumb frogeater

>>3632331
But muh pitch accent.
If they can't say Konami, they're fucked trying to say 国立研究開発法人日本医療研究開発機構.

>>3626763
HIS COCONUT GUN
CAN FIRE IN SPURTS