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|    Wolf to All    |
|    Re: Pronunciation of Gojira    |
|    08 May 04 02:30:31    |
      From: bussone@adelphia.net              > >susansabo pressed her interrogation thusly:       > >So it would basically be GO-jeera?       >       > Yes, that's about it, but it's a mild stress on the "go." Some people will       tell       > you sylables are not significantly stressed in Japanese, but there are       > different pronounciations in defferent contexts or different sentances.       >       > The "ra" is just that.              It's more like gode-jie-ra              If you destress Godzilla so both parts have an equal stressing, you get       about the right sound.                     --       |\-/|       <0 0>       =(o)=       -Wolf              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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