19th October 2004, 12:27 PM
Quote:It's not two adjacent vowels, though... it's shi and i. I'm not certain how you pronounce it, but I sure thought that the way it works is that each vowel is always pronounced the same way... which would mean combine the pronunciation of shi and then the pronunciation of i to form the (half of a) word...You never pronounce two ii's as separate vowels in Japanese, Brian. They're adjacent vowels. Do you know what adjacent means? It doesn't mean that there can't be other letters around them, silly.
Quote:By that rule, damashee(maybe extend with more e's) probably is the correct pronunciation. she and then e...
Either way, it's not damashy... at least, not unless you pronounce it damasheeee that is.
You pronounce it like Damasheeee. ii= two beats in length. Like Mamoru Oshii. Really there's no way of spelling it correctly in English unless you know how to pronounce things in Japanese, but "Damashy" would be more accurate than "Damacy", since there's no "c" sound in the name.
Also, they say the name in the opening song.