Arr New Pocky

[mindless_moder]

I want some damn pocky now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpT025nG74

 

[Danimal]

Pocky as so ****ing average it isn't worth $2.50.

 

[Viperidae]

Don't tell the otaku.

 

[Robbo]

That ad really doesn't make me want to eat chocolate bread sicks...

it's just weird :S

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Thread title is win.

God I love Japanese voice talent. Announcers, commercials, cartoons ... whatever it is, it's done


WITH FEELING.

On a side note, I can't convince my idiot roommates that the first syllable is pronounced to rhyme with "spoke" not "Spock" ... should show them this video.

 

[FishBulb]

Pocky as so ****ing average it isn't worth $2.50.

This. Don't know why everybody's so enamoured with it.

On a side note, I can't convince my idiot roommates that the first syllable is pronounced to rhyme with "spoke" not "Spock" ... should show them this video.

Your idiot roommates be right, that is how it's pronounced.

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

Hehehe. Pocky. Typical Japanese advert.

 

[Kyorisu]

This. Don't know why everybody's so enamoured with it.

Friend of mine buys so many boxes of the stuff and tries to give it away for free at LAN events. Hardly anyone takes any.

 

[MJ12]

What's the difference between Men's Pocky and regular Pocky?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

This is the first time I've heard of Pocky.

 

[Nomad]

What's the difference between Men's Pocky and regular Pocky?

Apparently Men's Pocky is dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate.

 

[MJ12]

Apparently Men's Pocky is dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate.

Women like Dark Chocolate more. This does not make sense.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I like pocky, but its expensive as ****, so ****.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Your idiot roommates be right, that is how it's pronounced.

No, they're not. The product just isn't spelled correctly. Listen to the commercial.

 

[FishBulb]

Friend of mine buys so many boxes of the stuff and tries to give it away for free at LAN events. Hardly anyone takes any.

Yep, friend of mine was always going on about it. I was thoroughly underwhelmed when I did get around to trying it.

No, they're not. The product just isn't spelled correctly. Listen to the commercial.

It's a Japanese product. They don't pronounce "po" with a long 'o', it's a much shorter vowel sound.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Pocky.ogg

 

[jet_porkins]

I took Japanese. Any word using the "po" syllable in their language is pronounced with a long O sound. "Pah" comes from their syllable "pa."

And yes, in the commercial they are using the long O sound.

 

[FishBulb]

Well, it's been about 5 years since I last took Japanese so maybe I'm mixing it up but I'm pretty sure "pokki" is pronounced with a short vowel sound. Wiki seems to agree that the IPA pronunciation of the "o" is the same as with "oniisan".

Goddamnit, I don't even like Pocky, why the hell am I arguing about how it's pronounced.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I invented Japanese and I can tell you the sound you should be making is the schwa.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Yep, friend of mine was always going on about it. I was thoroughly underwhelmed when I did get around to trying it.


It's a Japanese product. They don't pronounce "po" with a long 'o', it's a much shorter vowel sound.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Pocky.ogg

I invented Japanese and I can tell you the sound you should be making is the schwa.

"Pucky?"

The real fail here is that I'm trying to Romanize and Anglicize the pronunciation of an Asian language. Learning Mandarin has taught me how fruitless that is. The .ogg file to me actually sounds somewhere in between long and short after listening to it a dozen times.

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

They need a white chocolate one of these. YUM YUM