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Video game mispronunciations, misspellings and misinformation
UncleSporky
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I am feeling especially shallow and pedantic today, so here is a thread for reminiscing about those irksome people who have wronged you with their incessant incorrectness.
For example I remember how back in the NES days I kept hearing people calling it the Intendo. Clearly these were grandmothers who had heard it spoken of but never written.
And those NES commercials where the announcer insisted his name was Merry-oh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMFdeYwPEQQ
Most people probably remember how "playing Nintendo" was the term for playing the Genesis as well for years...which only continued as people kept referring to the SNES as a Nintendo (at least in my area).
I borrowed games from my uncle all the time who had a wealth of them. He told me that there was another system before the Genesis in Japan and it was simply called the Sega. (Which we know as the Master System.) I believed that for ages...
He also thought Sonic's nemesis was named Robotik and uses the pre-release nicknames of Ultra 64 and Dolphin to this day.
I've had the Wii for years but a few months ago my mom asked me if I was going to play the Why. I was very confused.
Finally I remember the horror stories from the game store employee threads about people asking for Nintendo XBoxes and Sony Wiis. I have to wonder how often people bought games for the wrong console - and did they get as far as trying Cube discs in the other systems?
For example I remember how back in the NES days I kept hearing people calling it the Intendo. Clearly these were grandmothers who had heard it spoken of but never written.
And those NES commercials where the announcer insisted his name was Merry-oh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMFdeYwPEQQ
Most people probably remember how "playing Nintendo" was the term for playing the Genesis as well for years...which only continued as people kept referring to the SNES as a Nintendo (at least in my area).
I borrowed games from my uncle all the time who had a wealth of them. He told me that there was another system before the Genesis in Japan and it was simply called the Sega. (Which we know as the Master System.) I believed that for ages...
He also thought Sonic's nemesis was named Robotik and uses the pre-release nicknames of Ultra 64 and Dolphin to this day.
I've had the Wii for years but a few months ago my mom asked me if I was going to play the Why. I was very confused.
Finally I remember the horror stories from the game store employee threads about people asking for Nintendo XBoxes and Sony Wiis. I have to wonder how often people bought games for the wrong console - and did they get as far as trying Cube discs in the other systems?
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Where the fuck do you see tape on this goddamn cartridge?
What's worse is I still hear it these days, when only one system uses anything close to a cartridge.
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So, so much
Not really related, but another friend became extremely angry once when he plugged in his xbox and nothing appeared on the tv. His father informed him that he had only hooked it up to the T.V. and the xbox wasn't actually plugged in to an outlet. My friend responded with "that doesn't matter!".
I laughed for a good long time about how someone in high school didn't understand the basic concept of electricity.
I don't think I've heard this in a long time, but then again, I don't recall seeing any pokemon-related commercials in a long time.
Oh my god yes. And the people who call levels "boards" from back in the DK/Pac Man days.
Also I remember I used to get exasperated when my parents called the NES a video game. It's not a game, it's a system! (7 year old me was very particular...but then I guess I still am :oops:)
EDIT: Pokiemon! You mean with the pokie and the mon and the...
I'm still not sure how to pronounce the shooter Philosoma.
Finally, my wife (girlfriend at the time) tended to give odd names to things. Mario Kart 64 somehow became "Yoshi's Go-Kart Adventure." She actually asked for it by that name at the store. Super Smash Brothers was, to her, "S'mario." Oddly enough, that one stuck among my hardcore gaming friends, and we only refer to the Gamecube version "S'melee" to this day, to the point that one of my friends thought that was a generally accepted shorthand for the game in the world at large.
But yeah, everygame console I owned was a "nintendo" atleast according to my mom. Didn't matter if I was playing gameboy, Genisis, 64, Playstation, or even Dreamcast. It was all filed under "nintendo".
Whats funny is I had a buddy the same age that got into gaming around the PS1 era, and then backstracked a bit. His mom referred to everything as playstation. the SNES, the 64, these were always playstation we were playing.
I do remember me and my buddy trying to determine pronunciations though. Namely, Samus Aran.
I always wanted to say "sam-us uh-ran" where he said "sam-us air-in"
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
Or worse, "pokeyman"
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This. Working at gamestop and having people ask for some obscure game I never heard of. When they say xbox I naturally check the xbox section and when I can't find it then they decide to tell me it's a 360 game.
-_-
To this day my mother still calls most video game systems nintendos and handhelds gameboys.
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One of my other cousins has a PSP which my mom has called a DS, but there are quite a number of DSes in our family.
Keep in mind this was 2005.
She came in asking for the game for the playstation. One of my coworkers was dealing with her, and was trying his best to answer her, but didn't know anything about the game offhand.
So I stepped over, and asked her to confirm the name I thought I heard her say. She certainly said, "Shadows of the Empire" I told her that that was a game that came out for the N64 back in 1996, and that she wouldn't find that here. But she insisted that she had seen her nephew play it on the Playstation 2. It basically came down to my word vs her's, and she wouldn't accept my advice, so she made the first guy look thru the computer to see if he found anything. The lady left pissed off, like we had some conspiracy against her.
Pokemon Safari - Sneasel, Pawniard, ????
hahahahahahhahaha
Also Deus Ex is not "Duece Ex".
you-ber?
How would you even get that wrong. oo-bur. Are they saying yubor or something?
Maybe they meant this?
I pronounce it wrong, even though I know the right way to pronounce it.
Because I work in a government office and oh my god.
Here is a transcript of a meeting last week:
Boss: So, the systems people have told us we're getting a new program. It's a Microsoft program called.....v-vista? I guess the program we have now is called XP but we're getting this new vista program to replace it.
Employee 1: Oh that's really bad!
Employee 2: Didn't they take that off the market?
Employee 1: Yeah, they did, but that's why the government is getting it now!
Boss: I don't know why they'd switch to a broken program, but that's just what the systems people said.
Me: *bangs head on conference table*
Here, mispronunciations are far more common, as we were a bunch of French-speaking kids. Back when my English skills were very... basic, I didn't really notice the "He" in one of the dialogue boxes in Mega Man X and for the longest time believed Zero to be a girl.
Of course, being French meant that everyone around here pronounced Pokémon perfectly all the time.
Also, for some reason, I always pronounced Battle Arena Toshinden "Battle Arena Toshiden". Even to this day, I make the mistake because I missed the n the first time around and called it Toshiden for so long it's become the normal way to say it.
EDIT: Also we pronounce Tetris "Tétris", not "Tehtris".
No. Châteauguay, right below Montréal.
By super french part, are you referring to the Lac St-Jean and the surroundings, where speaking english actually make heads turn around?
Also ICE CLIMBERS are called the ICECUMBERS because the font in SSBM makes the L I look like a U. And ICECUMBERS is adorable.
Where the hell do you work?
Statistics Canada.
Where people use computers all day but will still call the LAN guys because "Outlook isn't showing the little envelope when I get new email."
I honestly wasn't talking about any place in particular.
I don't know how I've survived here as long as I have with my horrible French.
I expect I will have to eventually move or I will get shanked.
BACK ON TOPIC!: I still don't know how to pronounce Ico. I've heard ee-co, but that just sounds retarded to me. I say eye-co.
1) Download to Desktop
2) Open Internet Explorer
3) Go to File -> Import and Export...
4) Follow the onscreen instructions.
My boss then comes to me two days later because instead of importing the bookmarks people instead were just making a shortcut to the email on their desktop, and opening it everytime they wanted to access the list of links. And she asks me to please go do it for them, because neither her nor the employee can figure it out.
I am not even close to tech savvy, but the fact that I can figure out how to do this or put a header on a printout somehow makes me a computer god around here. I have no idea how the LAN guys put up with it.
I've found that alot of Quecbois are pretty cool if you attempt speaking french no matter how poorly.. of course I havent really toured around places other than Montreal so I could be way off, maybe there is roving gangs of people who carry around makeshift shivs waiting to shank anglophones and bad french speakers.
Seriously. Scholomance. It is not "Skolamans". It's scholo, it means school, it's a soft ch sound!
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Sounds like you need to start slapping some sense into people that say ignorant shit.
Wait, who in the fuck pronounces "school" with a soft ch?
I still remember being so excited when grandma said she got the new nintendo...only to find a used sega genesis plugged up to the TV.
And the WoW stuff is prolific, but to be fair scholo means school (which does have a hard "ch") and it isn't english, so assuming people know anything about pronouncing it is setting an odd standard.
Rush 2049 - "Go really fast 2000"
Mr. Driller - "Doctor Digger"
The Legend of Zelda - "The Tale of Zarflax" (?)
My current gf also creates random names for the games she likes. Castle Crashers is now known as "Fort Crushers".
Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
You don't even have that sound in English.
I've tried. Oh lord I've tried. They have absolutely no interest in being helped.
To bring it more back to gaming, in another meeting around Christmas a woman said she was getting her children a Wii. She then had to explain that it's "that video game where you can play baseball and bowling and stuff with the little remote."
It's about then where my mind disengages from my body and I stop paying attention entirely.
There must be a youtube clip or some website you can point to in order to educate the ignorant masses.