I’m not sure why we suddenly decided Japanese was important, but I’m here for it. “Tr” isn’t super pronounceable in Japanese either. Would some form of “San” be used in place of three or tri?
Edit: Google translated “three decimeters” as “surī deshi mētoru”, so perhaps not…
I live in Japan so it’s on my mind. Tri would end up like ‘tori’ or ‘turi’ though a lot of speakers might reduce the o a bit in the former and the ‘u’ might devoice in the latter being closer to “t’ri”. “Triple” is a word that is used (mostly for baseball, I think) and some people do reduce the inserted vowel quite a lot.
I wouldn’t use ‘san’ because it doesn’t make sense outside of Japan (and, I suppose, close enough for Sinitic languages and those with loans from it). I went with ‘tri’ since it’s already a root meaning three (from Greek I think? I never remember which are Greek vs Latin).
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)
“Three decimeters” :)
“It’s about a threci”
Unfortunately that’s super not pronounceable in Japanese. Maybe Trici (though Japanese also doesn’t have ‘si’ and it would end up ‘shi’)? Triki?
I’m not sure why we suddenly decided Japanese was important, but I’m here for it. “Tr” isn’t super pronounceable in Japanese either. Would some form of “San” be used in place of three or tri?
Edit: Google translated “three decimeters” as “surī deshi mētoru”, so perhaps not…
I live in Japan so it’s on my mind. Tri would end up like ‘tori’ or ‘turi’ though a lot of speakers might reduce the o a bit in the former and the ‘u’ might devoice in the latter being closer to “t’ri”. “Triple” is a word that is used (mostly for baseball, I think) and some people do reduce the inserted vowel quite a lot.
I wouldn’t use ‘san’ because it doesn’t make sense outside of Japan (and, I suppose, close enough for Sinitic languages and those with loans from it). I went with ‘tri’ since it’s already a root meaning three (from Greek I think? I never remember which are Greek vs Latin).
Cool! Do you follow Japanese spaceflight at all? Looks like there’s an H-IIA launch out of Tanegashima scheduled for later this week.
Doesn’t that mean chicken or bird or something? I must admit most of my Japanese knowledge is food-related… (^_^)
Huh, interesting. How do people handle the “ple”? Is it expanded to “poru” or reduced to “pa”?
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.
tori does mean bird, yes :)
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)
“A school ruler”
Only works if your school had 30cm rulers as a standard but that appears to be true for many people i know.
Well, about 30 centimeters works, too, but neither rolls off the tongue particularly well, heh.
“3 decimeters” has one fewer syllable though. “One banana” is also close, and quite fun.