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Pronouncing Jei's name
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:28 -0700
by Ben
I thought this topic might be a little too trivial to be given its own thread, but this question has been driving me bonkers for years, and there aren't enough USAGI fans in my part of the world to tell me.
How do you correctly pronounce Jei's name? Is it spoken as "gee", or does it sound more like "Jay"?
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:55 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
"jay" as in Jay-san (Jason, a pun on the character in the slasher film)
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:23 -0700
by Todd Shogun
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:07 -0700
by Robweiller
Steve Hubbell wrote:"jay" as in Jay-san (Jason, a pun on the character in the slasher film)
... wow, never thought of that before
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:20 -0700
by tayocham
Robweiller wrote:Steve Hubbell wrote:"jay" as in Jay-san (Jason, a pun on the character in the slasher film)
... wow, never thought of that before
I remember whe I first realized that. I thought it was brilliant. One of many brilliant things that kept me reading!
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:32 -0700
by Cosmo
Note that "je" doesn't exist in Japanese as a native syllable. There's "ja", "ji", "jo" and "ju", but no "je", only "ji-e". So Jei
must be a foreign name.
