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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #50 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 23:15:37 »
I always say "toe pray" by that y be silent!

You good sir are correct, but you already know this.


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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #51 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 23:15:42 »
I always say "toe pray" by that y be silent!

You good sir are correct, but you already know this.


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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #52 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 23:16:54 »
I always say "toe pray" by that y be silent!

You good sir are correct, but you already know this.


SHUT THE **** UP. YOU ARE NOT INVOLVED!!!!

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #53 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 23:17:15 »
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #54 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 23:19:39 »
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #55 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 23:20:59 »
^ I can vouch for him that he's genuinely drunk as ****

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #56 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 00:18:52 »
How you pronounce something is basedon your accent... pronounce it whichever way sounds right to you.
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #57 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 00:41:56 »
Damn, this post rose from the dead...

Anyway, I've always said toe-PRAY. I picked that up from Phototristan on Youtube when he did his HHKB review. If it is wrong, blame him :D
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #58 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 02:36:18 »
You guys are totally wrong, it's pronounced "TOP-Ree".
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #59 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 07:02:51 »
I pronounce it exactly how its spelled, no pronunciation.
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #60 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 09:10:12 »
It's pronounced, ねくろ.  :))

Japanese doesn't have final consonants, so no "top". It's gotta be "to".

I can't read Kanji (someone posted the kanji earlier). I'm gonna guess at the "p", as "puh". So, "toe-puh-ray".

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #61 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 09:26:12 »
I pronounce it "Toe-per".
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #62 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 09:39:15 »
Topre is just short for Tokyo Press?

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #63 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 09:48:02 »
It's pronounced, ねくろ.  :))

Japanese doesn't have final consonants, so no "top". It's gotta be "to".

I can't read Kanji (someone posted the kanji earlier). I'm gonna guess at the "p", as "puh". So, "toe-puh-ray".

This is most likely correct.
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #64 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 11:21:10 »
Ive been saiyng Top-Reh  almost like topper LOL.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #65 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 11:43:21 »
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #66 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 11:53:42 »
HAHAHAA thats hilarious.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #67 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 13:08:53 »
Well the Kanji is 東プレ
In just katakana it would be トウプレ

Of course its just short for Tokyo Press and you can just take the first consonant of Tokyo with the first part of the Press and make it Topre.
If you want to say it like in Japanese but don't know to to pronouce Japanese, I'd say just say the first part of Tokyo, then say Per but add a Pr sound to P like your saying Prussian
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #68 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 15:33:07 »
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #69 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 15:42:29 »
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #70 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 16:00:12 »
http://translate.google.com/#en/ja/Topre

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So if you hit show phonetics you get: "Tō-Pu-Re" (Ō, ō = over, roll)

"Tou-Puh-Reh"

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #71 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 16:06:09 »
http://translate.google.com/#en/ja/Topre

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How do you turn off the southern accent?

Hahaha.... I know - the English speaking girl says "topper" but she's just wrong....
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #72 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 16:08:17 »
http://translate.google.com/#en/ja/Topre

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How do you turn off the southern accent?

Hahaha.... I know - the English speaking girl says "topper" but she's just wrong....

I like the Spanish one, it's nice :P
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #74 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 16:53:34 »
I pronounce "Topre" as toe-pur because I pronounce words like "centre" as sent-ur.
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #75 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 19:20:06 »
I pronounce it as toe preh, Toe as in Tokyo and Preh as in Press. Because that just makes logical sense seeing as that is what Topre is short for...
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #76 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 19:35:24 »
http://translate.google.com/#en/ja/Topre

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #77 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 19:38:50 »
Well the google translate sound is wrong. It's pronounced Toe-puh-reh.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #78 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 19:43:55 »
I've been saying TOE PER.

The toprah pic is hilarious haha.




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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #79 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 20:14:44 »
Well the google translate sound is wrong. It's pronounced Toe-puh-reh.

Well it should really be To-puh-reh, said without an English transient vowel sound on the "Toe" (i.e, no diphthong on the "Toe", as there are no diphthongs in Japanese).  Also, there are no stressed syllables in Japanese either.
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #80 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 20:34:51 »
Is it sad that until I heard it pronounced in a video I read it as "T-or-p" ? I thought of it that way so long I actually prefer that pronunciation and still think of that way.  :))

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #81 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 01:38:43 »
Toe pray.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #82 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 03:40:47 »
t-Oprah

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #83 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 04:33:49 »
It's  funny (or sad?) how people keep incorrectly answering an already answered question.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #84 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 04:48:51 »
It's  funny (or sad?) how people keep incorrectly answering an already answered question.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #85 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 04:51:16 »
It's  funny (or sad?) how people keep incorrectly answering an already answered question.


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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #86 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 04:51:33 »
It's  funny (or sad?) how people keep incorrectly answering an already answered question.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #87 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 12:14:22 »
I use my powerful swedish accent, and i say it like: TOP-RE (with the first part sounding like the word "TOP" (lol) and the ending "-RE" fast and sounding like when you say the word "rent" (before the "nt" part of the word :) And no special delay between the parts either)).
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #88 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 22:34:13 »
It's  funny (or sad?) how people keep incorrectly answering an already answered question.

so maybe we need a sticky post with a video of the proper pronunciation of it so people won't keep thinking it's just oprah with a T in front :p

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #89 on: Sun, 12 May 2013, 23:01:59 »
OK, I just contacted Topre manufacturing and have a definitive answer.

"The T is silent. The O is pronounced as an ŏ. The P & R together form a 'qwa' sound. Finally the E is sounded out like the word marzipan minus the M. So the correct pronunciation of our company and keyboard line is: AH-QWA-RZIPAN. Thank you for contacting Topre Manufacturing."

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #90 on: Mon, 13 May 2013, 09:13:36 »
This thread must never die!
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #91 on: Mon, 13 May 2013, 12:07:34 »
That's awesome Webwit, I didn't think of that, but you're right. 

So we have English speakers calling Japanese speakers who prounounce what sounds like an English word, then we're forwarding it to a Korean speaker who's mother speaks Japanese.... If we keep it up, we're liable to cause a glitch in the Matrix.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #92 on: Mon, 13 May 2013, 13:18:30 »
Sorry this is a bit off topic, but when someone posted the Japanese are lazy with English pronunciation it reminded me of meeting a Ukrainian physicist. I can't remember his name, because it was in 2006, but he's a known figure, has a constant named after him...

anyway, this guy when talking about physics instead of "particle" he'd say "partic".
Or instead of "possible", "possib". He confused the sh*h out of me at first  :))
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #93 on: Sat, 18 May 2013, 18:43:05 »
So, I was discussing with my colleagues here at the institute, and we decided it is actually "Topper". Tah-per.

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« Reply #94 on: Sat, 18 May 2013, 18:43:45 »
So, I was discussing with my colleagues here at the institute, and we decided it is actually "Topper". Tah-per.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #95 on: Sat, 18 May 2013, 18:44:30 »
Ah, I see.

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« Reply #96 on: Thu, 06 June 2013, 06:52:52 »
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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #97 on: Thu, 06 June 2013, 07:38:49 »
Oh, it's this thread.

I think of it as "トプレ", but my pronunciation is probably more like /topre/ with the most notable difference being an alveolar trill instead of an alveolar flap, at least when speaking in my native tongue. When pronouncing it in Japanese, I tend to pronounce the Japanese "u" sound, although a bit silent. I usually try to also use the alveolar flap when speaking Japanese, but it's a bit of an unnatural sound for a Swede, so from time to time I fail and pronounce it either with an alveolar trill or a more English-sounding alveolar approximant instead.

However, all pronunciations are probably right, since it really depends on your native tongue. The Japanese pronounce "Tokyo" correctly, while most English speakers do not. From an English-speaking perspective, however, the Japanese pronounce "pre" wrong instead, since it's an English word originally. From a Swedish perspective, well, we just hate everything except coffee and snaps.

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #98 on: Thu, 06 June 2013, 07:41:01 »
Is it bad that I'm less sure how to pronounce it after reading this thread?

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Re: Topre Pronunciation
« Reply #99 on: Thu, 06 June 2013, 08:29:07 »
I always just pronounce it toper like toe pe.