The pronunciation of Weiss is more or less correct but the way Schnee is pronounced is off.
This is how Schnee
is pronounced.
... That's exactly how it's pronounced in the show....
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They have this problem with every language they use. I'm afraid it's something we have to live with. Speaking as a Welsh person, I can point out that, technically speaking, Qrow's surname is both pronounced and spelled incorrectly.
By spelling it 'Branwen' instead of 'Brânwen', they're accidentally saying 'blessed bran' instead of 'blessed crow'. Yes, that does mean the show's alcoholic is named after a healthy alternative to Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes. But, hey, fermented wheat bran is alcoholic, too, so there we go.
A couple of characters in the show don't. Professor Port (see the Badge and the Burden episode) pronounces it 'shuh-knee'. He's not the only one, but I'm choosing that episode example because his pronunciation was very jarring to my ears the first time I watched that episode.
edited 26th Jul '17 3:18:54 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
I guess we just have to mark it up to Americans being Americans and not caring about anything that isn't America and American English. It's one of the many reasons I tend to like watching anime in Japanese.
No, I don't think it's America-specific. I just think it's standard fare for anyone who is bringing in flavour to a story by tapping into languages around the world and, if you don't have a decent command of the languages you're tapping into (and most don't), you're inevitably going to make mistakes.
We have the 'Gratuitous X' language tropes for a reason, after all. It is a very common problem in storytelling — regardless of the language/culture of the story's creators. The only times you see no issues is if Write What You Know is at work (linguistically speaking) and most people are not Tolkien.
You mention watching anime in Japanese, so look at all the gratuitous (and incorrect) foreign language usage that Japanese manga creators use.
edited 26th Jul '17 6:51:57 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.Regarding Qrow and Raven's surname:
I coulda sworn that Welsh, like Gaelic, when transcribed can be spelt MANY different ways.
edited 26th Jul '17 8:12:14 PM by BlackSunNocturne
I yearn for the episode where Sun just yells at Scarlet for 15 minutes
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." TwitterI'm not sure what you're referring to there. The only variable spelling I know of are when mutations kick in, for which there are rules of use. Qrow's surname is an example of mutation; it's made up of two words 'brân' (feminine noun) and 'gwyn' (masculine adjective). The feminine form of 'gwyn' is used ('gwen') and a meddal mutation drops the 'g' when pairing it with 'brân'.
The reason I said in my post that it was 'technically speaking' is because you will sometimes seem people dropping the circumflex from 'brân' — that's lazy writing, however; people will know what you mean, but it won't be considered good practice.
On the other hand, if you muddle the circumflex on 'gwyn' (gwŷn), you go from 'white, blessed' to 'lust, rage'... so, best not to get that one confused.
Yes, it's very much part of his bombastic style of speaking.
edited 27th Jul '17 2:47:29 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.Long, long, ago:
- Clan Patriarch: Our lust for bran flakes shall never be forgotten! From now on, we shall be the Brânwyn— Brangwyn— Breadwin— Branwyn— *passes out from drinking too much*
- Qrow: And that's how our family got it's name.Ruby: o.OYang: Pft! You just made that up!Qrow: *shrugs and takes a drink*
edited 27th Jul '17 5:00:06 PM by WillDeRegio
... So, uh, ended up taking in this series in a pretty condensed binge thanks to a sleepless night and some pretty strong curiosity after the most improbable crossover ever was announced.
I've enjoyed it but don't know how much more to say.
I sure said that!I think it's just that the character writing clicked with me. The cast is interesting and there's a lot of chemistry within the core cast.
Remnant is an interesting setting and I like the rules for the local style of magic, too. Plus, the action is just my style!
Kinda mad about how borderline senseless Pyrrha's death was though.
I sure said that!Not sure if I need to point this out in spoilers, but will do it anyway, if more people knew from the get-go that she's based on Achilles and would follow a similar tragic end, then the reactions should have been far less. Given that the creators had taken the time to build her up for the audience and suitably cut her down at the end of Vol. 3 shows how well they're doing that sort of thing.
[DATA LOST]Yeah, there's a huuuuuge difference between "their name and character design is a vague reference" and "they're obviously going to follow the same character arc". And "they're following the same character arc" doesn't mean that it was a good idea. Pyrrha's death annoyed me mostly because it was a complete waste of the show's most interesting character. They built up this great story arc for her, then mooted the whole thing at the last second, then — instead of leaving her to deal with the fallout of that (which also would have been interesting!) — unceremoniously killed her off.
It doesn't help that the way they killed her off was also dumb. Like, what was she actually trying to accomplish? Even if she'd managed to kill Cinder (which everyone and their dog told her she couldn't, even before she got the rest of the Fall Maiden's powers), what would that have accomplished? It wouldn't have saved Beacon, certainly. Pyrrha up until that point had been the level-headed one, who was good at judging her own (and others') abilities in relation to the situation at hand. They had to throw all that out in order to make her go fight Cinder.
Ultimately, what bothers me most is that the whole thing feels less like a natural outcome of the character's personality and the situation they were put in, and more like the writers decided to kill her off and then did a poor job of justifying how she got into that situation.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.I guess what I mean is less "Pyrrha shouldn't have died" and more "Pyrrha should've accomplished more in the moments leading up to her death"? I'll admit this is my tastes more than anything, but aside from giving Cinder a moment of pause as an arrow stuck out of her body Pyrrha herself didn't manage much at all in her final battle- Her death lead to Ruby's super-power meltdown and all, yes, but I dunno, it'd have been nice if Pyrrha at least managed to hit Cinder's throat or something.
It's kinda weird how she keeps coming back outside the main show, though- Who knows, maybe this isn't truly the last we've seen of her.
edited 30th Jul '17 9:54:24 AM by Pulse
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