every language says ‘a’ like ‘ahh’, in English it’s ‘ayy’ which sounds closer to ‘e’ and the English ‘e’ sounds like ‘i’ in Turkish, and Turkish is phonetically accurate like Japanese, where you can see how it works out with the words ‘istanbul’ and ‘anime’, but English is weird again by prolonging the ‘e’ at the end of anime
Relevant question: anyone know how to pronounce “yaoi?” In my head, it’s yowie, but that doesn’t feel right
That’s pretty much it!
If you want to be pedantic about it, it’s pronounced like
Or
In American English. (Stop pronouncing the words at the parenthesis). Better to learn IPA for this sort of questions
it’s Lois but with Y instead of L, so it becomes Yaoi
Edith: oh fuck, Lois without the ‘s’ being pronounced, so it’s basically Loi
Wild, I did not expect that. Thank you! Do you know why it’s transliterated with an a?
every language says ‘a’ like ‘ahh’, in English it’s ‘ayy’ which sounds closer to ‘e’ and the English ‘e’ sounds like ‘i’ in Turkish, and Turkish is phonetically accurate like Japanese, where you can see how it works out with the words ‘istanbul’ and ‘anime’, but English is weird again by prolonging the ‘e’ at the end of anime
Japanese isn’t transliterated with English pronounciation in mind, though.
Sorry, I don’t see an “ah” in Lois, was that just for the post “ya” vowels?
Fuck I accidentally used vowel harmony with Lois, you’re correct, I am wrong when I used Lois as an example.
I am struggling to find an example where a single letter being switched allows you to full comprehend how to pronounce Yaoi
Let’s make up an exercise
The ‘a’ in Yaoi is pronounced the same as the ‘a’ when you say ‘ahhh’ in an exasperated tone
The end of Yaoi Sounds similar to ‘ie’ in English, so ‘oi’ => ‘(w)ie’
So, it becomes like:
Yahh-wie
lol, no worries. That’s basically what I was picturing with yowie, lmao
Yes I’m over complicating it