How do you pronounce "MANA"?
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A short talk on how to properly pronounce the word "Mana." I don't actually care how you decide to pronounce it. The fact is some people have commented that ...

Square Enix uses the bastardized American pronunciation “man-nuh” for the English dubs, which is not incorrect, but the original pronunciation is “maw-nuh”

It’s like day-ta vs dah-tah/dah-tuh

@eezeebee@lemmy.ca
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Your decision to italicize that gave me chills

@FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee
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Yeah but is it Magi-cka or Magick-a

Man-ah

t�m
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Man-uh vs maw-nuh … I’ll stick with the first one

Lime Buzz
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Today I learned that it’s an indigenous Māori word, and as such we should probably be respectful and stick with how they pronounce it.

@t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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And here I thought it was derived and bastardized from “manna” the bread. TIL

Which, to be fair, is also derived from a word which would be most accurately (with English vowels) pronounced as mah-nuh. Although at this point “manna” is definitively also a word of English whose correct pronunciation is with /æ/.

Lime Buzz
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Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. I love learning things about indigenous cultures.

@mtlvmpr@sopuli.xyz
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Weirdly enough that’s how I’ve always pronounced it because of the amazing language: rallienglanti (it’s English read out loud in Finnish way)

@hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Lmao yeah same thing, pronouncing like ‘mana’ would be in Finnish word.

Funny. This is the same video I show to my friends to help them pronounce guanábana correctly.

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