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Maximara wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:29 am Still looks like a quirk of an improper translation. ie "four five" rather than "four fives".

RobbyB1982 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 10:39 pm The same way you see a title like Hunter X Hunter... the X is silent. You don't say X or Cross or anything... just "Hunter Hunter". Just reading the name doesn't really give you that information, and its not universal to all titles that share a similar format, but it's how its intended all the same and you have to take the author's word on it at some point.

Madner Kami wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 11:25 am As far as I am aware, it's a quirk in how japanese people read latin/english numbers and kinda comes from a railway (and kinda military by extension) way of reading things.
Naturally they've got different signs for numerals than we do and so 5555 or 999 to them isn't the same as 伍阡伍佰伍拾伍 / ごせんごひゃくごじゅうご (read: Go Sen Go Hyaku Go Jū Go, literally: 5 thousand(s) 5 houndred(s) 5 ten(s) 5) or 玖佰玖拾玖 / きゅうひゃくきゅうじゅうきゅう (read: Kyū Hyaku Kyū Jū Kyū, literally 9 houndred(s) 9 ten(s) 9). Instead they aren't understood as numbers, but "signs" for a lack of better words and thus aren't "percieved" as a single number and thus would be read individually: Five Five Five Five or Nine Nine Nine and this then gets "shortened" to Four Fives and Three Nines. They even use english phonetics to speak those signs: フォーファイブ read as "Fo Fōfaibu" スリーナイン read as "Sri nain".

If we'd do that in the opposite direction (just creating a mental analogue here, so bear with me), imagine you see this sign ご. Doesn't look much like a number to you, but you learned that it's pronounced "Go". Then you see ごごごご. You understand it as Go Go Go Go. This is kinda cumbersome to speak out loud, so it's shortened to Four Go(s). That's really all there is to it.

Riedquat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:53 pm The plural - "four fives" or "three nines" is common enough in English, the problem is that without the plural it's quite literally saying something different - "four five" is 45, pronouncing 5555 as "four five" (instead of "four fives") is as about as accurate as reading 1234 as "four five." Maybe it works in Japanese but that just shows the perils of transliterating.

Madner Kami wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:02 am Japanese has no singular or plural in the way the english language does. To imply a plural, you simply add a number in front of it. ファイブ is "Five" (phonetically) and フォー is "Four" (phonetically). Put both together and you get フォーファイブ "Four Five(s)" with the plural-s being implied by context. Same with and スリーナイン. スリー means "Three" (phonetically) and ナイン means "Nine" (phonetically). Three Nine(s).

RobbyB1982 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 6:09 am I don't know how to feel about the fact that the in depth hour and a half meticulously researched review on Planet of the Apes has almost no conversation, while this extended music video has four pages discussing how to pronounce the title.