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:: If you want to get technical, fans are the people using this wiki. Fans know that this toy is Japanese, and many of them have a rudimentary idea of how Japanese pronunciation works. By calling it "Gobe", you're suggesting that it might be pronounced "Goh-Bay" ;)--[[User:BraveMax|BraveMax]] 04:35, 3 February 2012 (EST) | :: If you want to get technical, fans are the people using this wiki. Fans know that this toy is Japanese, and many of them have a rudimentary idea of how Japanese pronunciation works. By calling it "Gobe", you're suggesting that it might be pronounced "Goh-Bay" ;)--[[User:BraveMax|BraveMax]] 04:35, 3 February 2012 (EST) | ||
:::We could maybe just add a note about how it's pronounced. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:46, 3 February 2012 (EST) | :::We could maybe just add a note about how it's pronounced. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:46, 3 February 2012 (EST) | ||
:::"''and many of them have a rudimentary idea of how Japanese pronunciation works''"... I think you '''''drastically''''' over-estimate the fandom's understanding of Japanese... especially if you look at their understanding of ''English''. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 08:08, 3 February 2012 (EST) | |||
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Uh, neither "Cobra" or "Gobu" has a long o. Even if it did, it's not a name based on English linguistics to begin with, so trying to apply English orthography to it is silly. —Interrobang 13:15, 2 February 2012 (EST)
- ...how on earth do you pronounce "Cobra"? Also, we don't HAVE an official Romanization, so the names should be written in a way that someone might plausibly be able to look at them and know what they are. And every English-speaker on Earth will look at "Gob" and rhyme it with "slob". -LV 14:02, 2 February 2012 (EST)
- Interrobang lived in New York, LV, he knows what a "cahbra" is. --ItsWalky 15:06, 2 February 2012 (EST)
- If you want to get technical, fans are the people using this wiki. Fans know that this toy is Japanese, and many of them have a rudimentary idea of how Japanese pronunciation works. By calling it "Gobe", you're suggesting that it might be pronounced "Goh-Bay" ;)--BraveMax 04:35, 3 February 2012 (EST)
- We could maybe just add a note about how it's pronounced. --abates 04:46, 3 February 2012 (EST)
- "and many of them have a rudimentary idea of how Japanese pronunciation works"... I think you drastically over-estimate the fandom's understanding of Japanese... especially if you look at their understanding of English. --M Sipher 08:08, 3 February 2012 (EST)
