Same

You are correct

Oh right, that's true I forgot about that lmao

19:38 he mentions it here

It’s not voiced though

@@mysteriouscolours1532 but every nopon cutscene is voiced where they pronounce their name.

I love the way N says "Melia Anti-qua"

It's pronounced in-game so not really a question. It's melia an tih qwa

​@@jstar3382 Melia literally pronounces it differently in 1 and 3

@@elementus2857she got bored, because old, so she changed the pronunciation to see if anyone would notice

I still call them No-pon, despite playing very little X and playing the whole numbered trilogy. Nah-pon just sounds wrong to me.

It's pronounced nah-pon nowhere, first I heard is this video. It WOULD be something like nópon versus nòpon if your language was real, but now you can't even DESCRIBE what you're saying, besides going somewhere like nuhpon or nahpon. And you're saying THAT "with an American accent", which just creates a recursive fractal of mispronOUncing the mispronUnciation. Capitals because you can't even write those words either, you just toss in the letters randomly. So the least you could do is make up a genuine system, apply yourself even the slightest, and decide WHEN are you saying foreign words and when you're naturalizing them. Like the japanese do, and Koreans do even way better. They HAVE industry and universities, while USA doesn't seem to manage anything but Bureau of Indian Affairs and keeping Spanish out of children's schools so they have to learn genders through their second langauge. Which is US english, containing what, 72 of them? a bit more than Das, Die or Der thanks to John Money.

@@sboinkthelegday3892you okay?

​@@GloomdrakeHe's stuck on a different Planet

@@sboinkthelegday3892 Rent free.

Ξένο-ξίφος. Xeno-blade. Trust me I'm greek and xeno acousticly is much cooler than "ξένο "

I'm Dutch and this is how I used to pronounce Xenoblade in 2011-2017...

Yeah, I was gonna say that Square Enix and Kingdom Hearts enlighten me that "key-no-blade" could be a viable pronunciation.

Amp it's Kseno

Kinoblade!

I was gonna say, don't forget "key-no-blade", but it seems others did it for me. Indeed, the letter X, everyone.

@@miimiiandcoKino was more important than we ever could have imagined

Lu-Sheen

But X can also be pronounced as Chi/Kye, like in X-Blade

@@OtisClucknot pronounced like that but can referred to as that like how English speakers refer to X as “ecks” despite it not making that sound

Too bad your culture hasn't discovered writing and has to fumble around copypasted Latin letters. Pronounce? None of your schools can teach how they "should" be WRITTEN. That's animal-level intelligence. Literally every genuine nation with any adjacency to Rome at least uses diacritics, even LATIN America. But they have more Romance things to say, than Semper fi and drop a bomb on children. There are systems like Hangul and Shavian, but USA is allergic to culture that has has a shelf life past 80 years of heritage, until you salt the earth again and start over. Like the cluster bombs still randomly exploding in Laos and Vietnam, and still making up generational wealth because the arms deal money was invested. It all sounds rather xenophobic.

@@jvbc29 The reason for that is simple. Considering the way English works, it would be kinda confusing to refer to letters by their sounds, especially considering that letters can have _several sounds each,_ including consonants. Take C and K for example. Make a K sound. Technically you could also be making a C sound. Now make an S sound. You could also just say you are making a C sound. Depends on the word. Therefore, we need to be able to refer to the letters without confusing them for other letters. The solution was to give each letter name for itself, specifically when talking about them AS letters. Now as for Greek, I have _no idea_ if that whole concept works there.

Chi is the Greek letter whose design was reused for the Latin alphabet's X (lowercase is slightly distinct; χ x, uppercase is identical). It has nothing to do with any English words spelled with X besides what they look like on paper.

English is such a mess. But, the most frustrating part has to be how, regardless of dialect, a native speaker will absolutely pronounce the exact same letter combination in 3 different ways, across 3 different words (that are all clearly drawing on the same root), and then proceed to waste 6 hours of your time over how their own arbitrary pronunciation assignments are correct. We are insufferable.

Our welcome is....???

Exactly, a lot of folks don't seem to realise that Japanese inherently lacks a few of our sounds and they have to modify the transliteration intrinsically to even say it. The true answer to the question would be more so related to which language they originally took the prefix from rather than how it's pronounced in Japanese. If English or any other language with the long e, then Zeeno is correct. Otherwise Zehno is correct. Regardless it doesn't matter much so go off lol

Noah:"I am truly the Xenogears." *roll credits*

​@@lpfan4491this is the peak comment on KZfaq. We can all go home now, Xeveryone.

Oh ! so no-po-n, not no-pon. as a french person i'm used to having more sounds than your typical english, i might've forgotten how japanese sounds are clearer. i actually really like the language for that.

Does Sena say Zee or Zed? Question answered.

Zed because it sounds 50 thousand times cooler

At this point I just alternate between them randomly lol

Japanese doesn't naturally have zee as a sound so yea

Nopan? That's kinda sus.

Σε νιώθω απόλυτα

Ξενόσπαθο?? Ξενόξιφος??

Which is exactly the way the source word “kosmos” is pronounced, but the angy English speakers still had to jump and say it’s mispronounced because they haven’t heard another language in their life

@@kingofcheshire Many people straight up do not grasp the bare basic concepts interms of inter-language communication. For example, I have seen people not get what a localization error is in both the Xeno and Fire Emblem communities.

Its the same in Germany

Same in italian

What I say is more like Gzenoblade

@@MK73DS Yes, it's something between the Kz and Gz, it's complicated ahah

If your not paying attention he almost says it correctly

That also happens to me and I'm also not a native english speaker (though i could distinguish the nopon pronouciations)

It's the first syllable. In X (and Japanese, it seems) the "No" is pronounced with a long "O" sound. The same kind you would hear in the English words "no," "go," "show," "throw," etc. In the other three games' English dubs (as well as Celica in X since she also has an accent) it uses a shorter "O" sound that kind of sounds like someone going "ah." The same kind you would hear in the English words "stop," "flop," "mop," "drop," etc.

Thanks, now I can notice the difference, I was totally overthinking it. I'm relieved to learn I'm not partially deaf, so now I can keep enjoying these marvelous soundtracks for years to come.

I say Zee-no but I also say No-pon with the long O but the thing is X was my first Xenoblade so the main trilogy cannot change my ways. I would have read it that way too so if I'm reading the subtitles I don't care what is coming out of their mouths, my brain still hears "Noh-pon"