Forum - View topicTetsusaiga or Tessaiga?
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Sesshoumaru sama
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Lately I've been watching Inuyasha fansubs, and there seems to some debate over how to pronounce Inuyasha's sword. Can some one help me out and tell what the correct way to pronounce his sword?
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Nagisa
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 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Well...and this is pulling from my exceedingly limited knowledge of Japanese linguistics...but here's what I gather.
They're both right. You see, whenever an extended consonant sound is written in Katakana, a smaller-than-normal "tsu" kana is inserted next to the kana whose consonant is to be lengthened. So, if you just take the "tsu" as a marker and glance over it, the sword's name would read "Tessaiga" (note, two S's mean that sound is lengthened). But if you read every single kana, it would be "Tetsusaiga." Of course, I'm probably way off...but that's what I remember reading from somewhere. |
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Sesshoumaru sama
Posts: 170 Location: Texas, USA |
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Thats what I read too, I just wanted to ask the forums for some reassurance. This question also implies sesshoumaru's name as well, but its basically the same answer. |
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Rebecca
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Ahh yes, THIS question again. Truthfully I think Tessaiga is the more accurate way to romanize the name, but I prefer the Tetsusaiga spelling. Seeing Tessaiga and Tenseiga next to each other in print might cause a little confusion since people who speed read will see the same word twice (Te-s-iga and Te-s-iga), so having the 't' in there makes the two stand out as different names.
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Carol Maxwell
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I think the Tetsusaiga is pronounced with that extra t in it. That's how they say it on the t.v. aired show. But, hey, only way to find out the correct way to say it is to ask Rumiko Takahashi (appoligies if I spelled her name wrong), or the people who did the show (sorry, I'm not to sure of that either
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Sesshoumaru sama
Posts: 170 Location: Texas, USA |
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That extra t is how they pronounce it in the dub. I talking about how they pronounce it in the japanese version. |
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Mou Kaoru
 Posts: 298 Location: Simple minds are easily amused. |
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In Japanese version its pronounced Tessaiga with the "s" sound lengthened. In English dub its pronounced Tetsuaiga with the t. But as Nagisa already pointed out, the "tsu" is used to lengthen the "s" sound. So they are both, in sense of katakana, correct. Kinda confusing... 
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Tsukasa1
 Posts: 47 Location: Lost in the net and can't log out. |
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They are both correct. It's kinda confusing. I seen them both used. 
Tsukasa1 |
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Kanna no Mai
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Tetsusaiga is pronounce te-ts-sai-ga.
て te as in ten つ ts as in cats さ sa as in sat い i pronouce as eye が ga as gallon |
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ShellBullet
 Posts: 1051 Location: I hit things, with my fist. |
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I'm pretty certain it's Tessaiga. A katana small tsu is not the same as a large tsu. Teh American pronounciation on T.V. is just a mistake, plain and simple; just another thing for fans to obsess over
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Inu-Yasha
 Posts: 373 Location: Quad Cities, Iowa |
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I wonder how Viz will translate or spell for that matter of the following:Bakuryuuha,Kongousouha,Sou'unga,etc. As you guys said before both Tessaiga and Tetsusaiga are right names and pronuications,and I concur with all of ya. [Edited for spelling of Sou'unga.]
Last edited by Inu-Yasha on Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:01 am; edited 1 time in total |
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zaphdash
 Posts: 620 Location: Brooklyn |
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Well, I'm no expert in Japanese, nor am I an Inuyasha fan, but...
If the tsu is a small one, I don't think "Tetsusaiga" is a correct spelling or pronunciation. If it's a small tsu, I think it *has* to denote a double consonant, in which case "Tessaiga" is correct. If it's a normal-size tsu, then it's the other way around. It *must* be "Tetsusaiga." In either case, I'm fairly certain that only one or the other is correct, not both of them. When tsu is being used to denote a double consonant, that's *all* that it means. It is not to be pronounced. It sounds here like it's a small tsu (but like I said, I'm not an Inuyasha fan, so I don't know that, myself), so it would be Tessaiga. But, like I said...I'm no Japanese expert, so if someone knows better than I do, please speak up. I'm always for learning something new. |
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Tokaji Kyoden
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Tetsusaiga is the proper pronunciation. The thing about this is that the "..su.." is not really pronounced. It's more Tetssaiga.
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Swordfish_II
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"Bakuryuuha"
I think they had that one as "Dragon Twister" in the PS1 game. |
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