Author Topic: How do you say CD-ROM2?  (Read 1120 times)

Turbo D

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2008, 02:41:09 PM »
exactly! too lazy to read those moon letters  :lol:

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2008, 03:31:56 PM »
See-Dees-Nutz?  :lol:

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2008, 07:10:35 AM »
I say "She-dee-rlome-tu" (RL sound followed by Rome) but I am saying it this way on purpose.
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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #18 on: March 01, 2008, 10:17:44 AM »
I just say "The real blast processing 2".


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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #19 on: March 01, 2008, 11:02:39 AM »
How about the way the chicky-poo says it on the warning track?  It's been awhile since I listened to it, but I think she says something like "Shee dee romo oh visk er ez"  Actually I don't think the Japanese have invented a way to pronounce the letter "v" yet, so it may be "bisk" instead.

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #20 on: March 01, 2008, 10:59:30 PM »
"Shee Dee romu disku desu"
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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2008, 10:54:47 AM »
LOL @ Japan.

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2008, 11:35:02 AM »
What is the point of putting "u" at the end of every word when it's not pronounced? Since it's never pronounced, why not just drop it? Makes no sense.

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2008, 11:47:17 AM »
They pronounce it... kind of.  The Japanese have an extraordinarily difficult time ending a word on a consonant sound, so they put vowel sounds at the end of most (not all) things.  So "Rom" absolutely MUST become "Romu" when spoken by a native speaker.  It takes years of dedicated training to overcome this.
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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2008, 11:56:33 AM »
They must whisper it or something then because I have never, ever heard the "u".

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #25 on: March 02, 2008, 11:58:47 AM »
Do you have a Japanese CD game?  If so, listen to the warning track.  It's there.  It may blend into the next word, but it's there.

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #26 on: March 02, 2008, 11:26:25 PM »
definitely it is!
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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2008, 12:50:49 AM »
They pronounce it... kind of.  The Japanese have an extraordinarily difficult time ending a word on a consonant sound, so they put vowel sounds at the end of most (not all) things.

The japanese "alphabet" is a mixture of syllables (well except for a stray "n").  They use the "u" syllables as the closest approximation to ending with a consonant.

One example is when I had to write my name "Stephane", I would use the katakana for Su te fu+a n.

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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2008, 01:53:15 PM »
I usually say "CD-Rom Two", but often called it "squared" back in the day, like "Super CD-ROM squared system".

For years everyone online called Super CD games "SCD" and often "SCD" was used to label any PCE CD game. Its weird seeing people use "SCD" nowadays when refering to Sega-CD games.
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Re: How do you say CD-ROM2?
« Reply #29 on: March 05, 2008, 12:59:42 AM »
who does that?
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