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Mario Chat / Re: How do you pronounce Mario?

« on: September 25, 2002, 05:41:17 PM »

Infamous: Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. (excerpt from www.dictionary.com)

Ok, infamous was too strong a word. What about: famous yet on the verge of becoming annoying. Much like "Pika...".

But anyway, have you ever met anyone italian who didn't pronounce their name "Mah-rio"...
(Heck, I've never met anyone italian period...)

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General Chat / Re: Prepare for war.......

« on: September 24, 2002, 01:35:11 PM »

I do think that this site should upgrade to Proboards. However, if you don't like pop-up ads, then you should upgrade to YaBB, which you can install to your hard drive and add to your site... somehow...

It just takes a little more effort and time, which Deezer doesn't seem to have. If you're too lazy, use Proboards. It's the same exact thing, but with annoying pop-ups. And it's fast... sometimes it takes 30 seconds for a page to load on this board, and I'm using DSL...

I wonder why all my posts end up being annoyingly long...

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Mario Chat / Re: How do you pronounce Mario?

« on: September 24, 2002, 01:19:20 PM »

Who knows? Perhaps in the UK, they replace Charles Martinet's infamous "it's-a me, Mario!" clip with a different one?

Anyway, neither way is proper nor improper. The only way to find out is to head over to Italy and ask someone there.

I always use the "ah" sound, though. However, to me it makes sense that English people would pronounce it "ah" and American pronounce it "aa"... odd.

Anyway, it only makes sense that Japanese people pronounce it as "ah", because their language is extremely simple. Each vowel makes only one sound, ex:
A = "ah"
I = "ee"
U = "oo"
E = "eh"
O = "oh"

That should also help for the pronounciation of Lakitu.

I have one last question for "Matt"... have you ever played Super Smash Bros. or Super Mario 64? If you have, do they change the pronounciation for 'Mario' in the UK version?

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Site Discussion / Re: We want fanfiction!

« on: September 24, 2002, 01:02:06 PM »

Yes, I think TMK should make a fanfiction board, or maybe make a seperate section for fanfiction on this board... right now I'm making a story.

But, are those two stories the only two TMK has recieved?

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Site Discussion / Re: fan fiction

« on: September 24, 2002, 12:58:59 PM »

I think TMK should make a fanfiction board, or at least make a fanfiction section on this board.