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Happy 25th deathday to the Mars Climate Orbiter! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by threelonmusketeers to c/spaceflightmemes

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I live in Japan so it's on my mind. Tri would end up like 'tori' or 'turi' though a lot of speakers might reduce the o a bit in the former and the 'u' might devoice in the latter being closer to "t'ri". "Triple" is a word that is used (mostly for baseball, I think) and some people do reduce the inserted vowel quite a lot.

I wouldn't use 'san' because it doesn't make sense outside of Japan (and, I suppose, close enough for Sinitic languages and those with loans from it). I went with 'tri' since it's already a root meaning three (from Greek I think? I never remember which are Greek vs Latin).

[–] threelonmusketeers 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I live in Japan so it's on my mind

Cool! Do you follow Japanese spaceflight at all? Looks like there's an H-IIA launch out of Tanegashima scheduled for later this week.

Tri would end up like 'tori' or 'turi'

Doesn't that mean chicken or bird or something? I must admit most of my Japanese knowledge is food-related... (^_^)

"Triple" is a word that is used (mostly for baseball, I think)

Huh, interesting. How do people handle the "ple"? Is it expanded to "poru" or reduced to "pa"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Cool! Do you follow Japanese spaceflight at all?

Not really. I tried interviewing as a dev on a satellite company's site, but apparently they require that one be a citizen for various reasons. I did want to go see a launch when I first moved to Japan, but it worked out to be rather difficult and doubly so as I had no driving license at the time. I might have to look into it again as that would be pretty neat.

Doesn't that mean chicken or bird or something? I

tori does mean bird, yes :)

How do people handle the "ple"?

プリーズ (pu ri (long vowel marker) zu). Final 'u' gets devoiced in most cases and, anecdotally, many who say the word a lot devoice the first one as well. So pureez with the quality of the u varying from non-existent to schwa to normal (kinda like oo in moon but shorter)