thats house they pronounce it

Adums Autism comes in clutch.

never argue with people on reddit. i learned that early on

You’re not pretentious or even wrong. You’re just a weeb.

The thumbnail makes me wanna go to PayPal link Not Scoot Henson.

Ha-u-su

That Scoot finisher is on point.

Redditors love to use “As a gen-you-ine citizen of knee-pawn-ji” whenever they start losing an argument about Japan

To be fair, when the title comes up it also straight-up just says "House" on the title card. The intended title is the English word "House," it's just that Japanese has a system of translating English words into their native pronunciation where the consonant "s" at the end of the word is represented by the phonetic sound "su," which often also gets dropped when speaking quickly or casually. That said, it's not "pretentious" to pronounce it "Hausu" either. If the intent is to stay truer to the original pronunciation, if anything I'd call it respectful. It's only pretentious if someone insists that's the only correct way to pronounce it and that anyone who doesn't say it like that is wrong, which isn't what Adum's doing here. Ironically the redditors who argue the opposite are being the pretentious ones, with the whole "anyone who pronounces it the other way is [insert pejorative]." It's just a word, within reason people can pronounce it however they like.

Technically you can say the u at the end of words like desu. It’s more slang to drop the u so It is possible that the voice at the start of the film was trying to be more formal

I’ve made an attempt to stop arguing with people online in general. You won’t change anyone’s minds ever. Purposefully obtuse is exactly right

your argument has a severe problem. if youre right that means they got something wrong and for a redditor that is impossible

Tbf, if the title is cooler or easier to say as its original foreign title ("La Pianiste" or "Gojira" or "Mattias et Maxime"), I'll call it that. But if it was localized for a reason, or if even the title itself is said in English in the movie itself ("Battle Royale", "Oldboy", "Life is Beautiful", "Pan's Labyrinth"), then yeah, no need to weeb it haha. "Hausu" does sound legitimately cooler, though.

That moment when pronouncing something the only way you've ever heard before is being called pretentious:

As someone who has been on Reddit for the past ten years, it's gotten so much worse. The last five or so years, the content has just become rage bait, and the comments have turned into arguments with other users for no apparent positive outcome.

In the japanese alphabet, each character contains a consonant and a vowel (with some exceptions). When you write an english word in japanese, you have to kind of do your best approximation of what it would sound like. With "house," even though there's a character for "ho" in japanese, the character for "ha" (ハ) is actually used as it sounds closer to the soft "o" sound in "house", you can have vowels by themselves so the "u" is just ウ, but there's no way to write an "s" sound the way it's pronounced in "house," so the closest approximation you can really get is ス, "su". The only reason person in japan refer to the movie as "hausu" is because they can't read the english "house" on the poster, but they can read the japanese "hausu." Hausu does sound cooler, but I dont know if there's really an objectively correct pronunciation for an english speaker to use in this situation.

I saw this on Reddit b4 watching (good lord is following the reply chain/thread of a single user’s homepage a f**king nightmare or what?)

house in japanese is "ie" (家)

Was trying to remember what this was called when Animal Well came out. There's a blue version of the scary cat in it.

Imagine being on reddit for more than 2 house

True. Thats why i say Shinseiki Evangelion instead of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

I'm an English teacher in Japan and most of my coworkers are native Japanese speakers who teach English. Even when they're pronouncing the word "house" in English they tend to say it more like "hausu" than "house." It's just what happens when you take an English word and transliterate it into Japanese phonetics.

I've never had a positive experience on Reddit

lol this was not what came to mind when seeing that title

How Sue.

"It's not Attack on Titan!!! It's called Shingeki no Kyojin!!!"

Subtitles don’t lie, everyone else can take off

the word for house in japanese is 家 (ie) so hausu is fine. hausu is not the standard word for talking about a house. im about to fight the redditor

I really hate how people have misused the word 'pretentious' as anything they vaguely hate.

i would like to see what subreddits scoot is on... or matbe i wouldn't

Redditors are a different breed of being

Maybe it's like the British Intrusive R, like "law," "Russia," and "spatula" don't have r's at the end, but sort of slip in due to the accent.

Should we call it Monsters Inc or Monsters Incorporated?

Tbh the movie’s pronunciation doesn’t really sound like Hausu, the “oo” is there but it’s pretty subtle

Reddit used to have more respect, way back when the digg exodus happened and the people weren't that many. Today there's a very specific reason that makes Reddit absolutely cancerous; if you are not saying the most popular thing in the subreddit posted it you are practically CENSORED by the downvotes; hence it's practically IMPOSSIBLE to say anything in reddit that isn't already popular and already accepted so it's literally the death of new ideas.

it's only as pretentious as they're being pedantic. They definitely get off on "correcting" others

Embarrassing.

I do think it's more pretentious to say house instead of hasu

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The redditor's Japan glazing is so condenscending........ 😬😬😬😬😬😬