Ayu no Song Titles

[gakkun]

Noowaituusei? Guureitafurudeisu??? Or Ebaarushion?!! Confused? Well so am I, but how the heck do Japanese people mention Ayu's songs? Do they try to say it in English or romanize the song titles? @_@ Wouldn't that be very inconvenient if they did? Like, every song would have meaningless gibberish for a title. Heh...*still wonders*

[tl1029530921]

im sure theysay it in english...some titles would be interesting to hear ppl say:-p...

[ayumin]

Japanese people receive English education for at least three years. Therefore, the meaning and pronunciation of a general word are known to some extent. However, our pronunciation is less than native it. We are going to use the rightest possible English to Those who speak English. In everyday life, we talk by the pronunciation of the middle of a Roman alphabet and English.

nouweituusei gureetofurudeizu eboryushon

[tl1029530921]

so dat would be in katakana, right..?

[hanabiwings]

Yeah, they say the titles in English on all of the music shows and even in daily conversation. ^^ I always had fun talking about songs with English titles because I got to say the katakana version.

Sometimes it's really inconvenient when the song has a long title. Or else, the artist has a long title.

Take TMRevolution... In 99, he changed his name. So it was like this:

Za endo obu geneshisu TMR-eboryuushon taabo taipu D

The end of genesis TMR-evolution Turbo Type D

^^

Anyway, it's really fun, I think. Za sainzu obu raabu (THE SIGNS OF LOVE by Dreams Come True), Boyaaji (Voyage), Furajiiru (Fragile by ELT), etc.

[AfanforXX]

Ayu songs aren't supposed to be typed in katakana, unless they're titles are originally in katakana/hiragana. They're always in the roman alphabet, always. It'd be incorrect to make them into katakana.

[Findlay]

Boyaji = Voyage

I hear em pronounce the titles in english. but I've heard Fry High o_o

[Linzy]

Originally posted by AfanforXX
Ayu songs aren't supposed to be typed in katakana, unless they're titles are originally in katakana/hiragana. They're always in the roman alphabet, always. It'd be incorrect to make them into katakana.

That's true, but the Japanese usually pronounce the song titles as if they were in katakana. It's just the way they do it, because it's too difficult to pronounce them correctly in English. So if a music show host was introducing "Greatful days", he or she would probably say "guretofuru deizu". I've heard an host announcing BoA and Kumi Koda's song "The Meaning of Peace" and she said "za miiningu ofu piisu".

Linzy, I heard that too. Seemed a little odd at first, but I guess I understand why now..

[Luna Saisho]

From what I've seen, the titles are simply said as close as that person is capable to say. I've heard ayu clearly say "evolution" in concert, yet pronounce "UNITE!" as "yu-knee-tay" so well, I think the closest answer is that a native Japanese will do as close as they can.

[gakkun]

Originally posted by Luna Saisho
I've heard ayu clearly say "evolution" in concert, yet pronounce "UNITE!" as "yu-knee-tay" so well, I think the closest answer is that a native Japanese will do as close as they can.

Haha! she was probably pronouncing it as if it was romaji or something.

[mimika]

the thing is they can't really pronounce in english like u and me

itz not that they absolutely try to do it on purpose...but they just can't pronounce proper english!!!!!

and the closest they can pronounce is in the katakan engrish form...which sounds super weird and un-understandable (?) to us all

just like...juurai furesuto...july 1st

[Shiso]

"Juurai Faasuto" hehe

I love the engrish! It's fun to listen to it and try to guess what the heck are they talking about ^^

[Nu-NRG]

yea i think japanese intend to used their own language to say english.......take aya's song for instant tropical koishiteru
tropical changed to toropika while koishiteru stay the same

[shake_shake_pig]

don't they just change the english into katakana, and pronounce in Japanese...(therefore the boyaji)
but I heard it's really hard to learn both pretty pony~pretty pony~pretty pony~ and English at the same time cuz the pronunciation is just totally different...
no doubt Japanese ppl may have a hard time on pronouncing English words...even if they tired...

[Nu-NRG]

i remember someone told me that japanese starts learnin english when they are in highschool...maybe thats the reason why

[Whit3FoX]

interesting interesting fact
this happen lot of time when u watch japanese movies ...

[destiny_ayu]

Hey.. dat looks cool.. LOL

[MTRLevolution]

Originally posted by Eevee
I hear em pronounce the titles in english. but I've heard Fry High o_o