• threelonmusketeersOPM
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    42 months ago

    I live in Japan so it’s on my mind

    Cool! Do you follow Japanese spaceflight at all? Looks like there’s an H-IIA launch out of Tanegashima scheduled for later this week.

    Tri would end up like ‘tori’ or ‘turi’

    Doesn’t that mean chicken or bird or something? I must admit most of my Japanese knowledge is food-related… (^_^)

    “Triple” is a word that is used (mostly for baseball, I think)

    Huh, interesting. How do people handle the “ple”? Is it expanded to “poru” or reduced to “pa”?

    • tiredofsametab
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      42 months ago

      Cool! Do you follow Japanese spaceflight at all?

      Not really. I tried interviewing as a dev on a satellite company’s site, but apparently they require that one be a citizen for various reasons. I did want to go see a launch when I first moved to Japan, but it worked out to be rather difficult and doubly so as I had no driving license at the time. I might have to look into it again as that would be pretty neat.

      Doesn’t that mean chicken or bird or something? I

      tori does mean bird, yes :)

      How do people handle the “ple”?

      プリーズ (pu ri (long vowel marker) zu). Final ‘u’ gets devoiced in most cases and, anecdotally, many who say the word a lot devoice the first one as well. So pureez with the quality of the u varying from non-existent to schwa to normal (kinda like oo in moon but shorter)