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I am curious as to how everyone pronounces this name.
I have always pronounced it, "Ta-my-uh" but I read once that the proper pronunciation is, "Ta-mee-uh."
My wife heard me say, "Ta-mee-uh" the other day and said, "I thought it was Ta-my-uh?"
I prounounce it: " D...M...L". Or, "DRA-GUN".
I pronounce it Ta-mee-uh, but that could be down to the different version on English that you guys use.
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I say Ta-mee-yah, you say Ta-my-uh, let's call the whole thing off!
Seriously, I do really say Ta-mee-yah, and pronounce the Y.
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"Ta-mee-yah, and pronounce the Y"
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Tuh-MY-Yuh.
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"Occasionally out of stock" (UK pronunciation anyway)
"Probably worth it"
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Another way to think of it, ta, mi and ya are three characters in the Kana alphabet, and can be spoken separately. When strung together, I believe the Japanese put the emphasis on the ya (gonna have to dig out an old Japanese grammer book to be sure, so I'll defer to someone who knows the language.)
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As noted, there are three distinct syllables. ta, mi and ya
If I recall correctly, "a" is always pronounced "ah" This makes the first sound "Tah"
"mi" is pronouinced "me"
"ya" is pronounced "yah"
That gives us "Tah me yah"
That's how it's pronounced in the old 80's vintage RC promos like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmyijzLIF88
I believe that to be pronounced "Tah my ah" it would be written as "Tamyya". EDIT: Actually, it wouldn't be, as there's no "hard" Y (as in "why") sound in the lanquage. Y's are pronounced as they would be in "yes" or "yellow"
I asked one of our engineers who lived in Japan for 10 years and who speaks the language fluently. He said "Tam MEE yah"
S, W, E, E, T.
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Phil_H As noted, there are three distinct syllables. ta, mi and ya If I recall correctly, "a" is always pronounced "ah" This makes the first sound "Tah" "mi" is pronouinced "me" "ya" is pronounced "yah" That gives us "Tah me yah"
From way back in my reading of pronoucing Japanese names and words in English I do recall these basic rules for translated vowels- they are constant in pronunciation, unlike our own language;
a is a sound as in "ah"
e has a sound as in "eh" or "ay"
i is a sound as in a "ee"
o is very much the same as the long "oh"
u is pronounced as "oo"
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Ta-Mi-Ya
I'll be naughty and use Hiragana flash cards, cause I dont know where my katakana are at the moment. Basic theory says International company, not in being talked about not in japan, should use katakana, or the alphabet use for non-japanese things.
First set is -Ta Mi Ya
Second set is how we (as non japanese are taught the japanese sounds)
Ta, actually looks like how we would write and say Ta (sounds like the child said "ta" for thank you)
Mi, for me, candles on my cake, me
Ya, is for Yak
HTH
Andrew
Growing up it was TA MI YAH until people at my former hobby store pronounced it TA MAI YAH. I'll still call it TA MI YAH, but after that video in Japan maybe I should say TAHHH MI YAH.
~Dave
djrost_2000 Growing up it was TA MI YAH until people at my former hobby store pronounced it TA MAI YAH. I'll still call it TA MI YAH, but after that video in Japan maybe I should say TAHHH MI YAH. ~Dave
I put that down do his american accent/drawl.
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