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Do people really pronounce it this way...? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've always pronounced it Ass-key

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Count me amongst the Ass-keyers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Welcome to the fold. First rule of 🍑 🔑: claim territory, and keep the isekai clan off our turf.

They give you trouble, you call me, captchisce? 🤌

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I, too, am an ass-key man

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

😎 🇦 🇸 🇸 🇰 🇪 🇾 🔹 🇲 🇦 🇳 ™️

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The joke is that 'isekai' in Japanese translates to "another world" in English. 1985 was truly another world, as anyone who was there might attest.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

isnt it a joke ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai,

Ace-Qii as french, however,

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Quick, I need an American. How do you guys pronounce 'isekai'? Going off the correct Japanese pronunciation this post does not make any sense. These things aren't even close in the way I say them.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ih-seh-kai, and ASCII like ass-key. They aren't close, to me.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's ass-sea, you Neanderthal!

It's much funnier that way, as any right thinking human knows ;)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Ee-sik-kai and ass key. I bet I'm double wrong but less wrong than OOP. There not close.

[–] Dudewitbow 5 points 1 week ago

i usually would hear EE-seh-kai or EE-say-kai, given that its basically I and Sekai(meaning world in japanese) put together. so how you pronounce the latter should depend on how you pronounce the word Sekai

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

We don’t. We make you speak American, like god intended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ahs-see. The hard C following a vowel and preceding a long vowel makes "ck" seem wrong to me.

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