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[catslash]

Having a player named Daisuke on my team.

Pros: As someone who was kind of obsessed with the second season of Digimon for a while, I am way too excited to have the name Daisuke involved in something I like again. (Hush. It takes very little to make me happy.) When the season begins, expect me to geek out and start calling him Dai-kun and other things that I mean affectionately but in reality he would find horribly insulting.

Cons: Dice-K? Are you fucking kidding me? Hell, maybe he'd prefer Dai-kun.

Comments

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

I would like to know why the Red Sox felt the need to acquire Japanese pitchers NOW, when I won't get to see them all that much.

On the other hand, my odds of getting to try my dodgy Japanese on Matsuzaka are probably better at away games.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no Japanese. I could say hello and threaten to kill him. That's about it. And it probably would go down even worse than "Dai-kun."

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Ha, that was me. I forgot I wouldn't be automatically logged in on a school computer when replying from an e-mail alert. Whoops.

[americanleaguer.livejournal.com]

Possibly this is just me being an idiot, but is that how it's pronounced? I'd been saying "DIE-soo-kay"... is it pronounced "Dice-Kay"? Or like something else?

[akatonbo.livejournal.com]

Dice-K actually is a pretty close approximation, and probably the best way to get the average American baseball fan not to call him dai-SOO-kee. (You would have been pretty well on target if not for the fact that the U is elided, which is very common in Japanese.)

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Dice-K's a pretty decent approximation. The U is more or less silent, but kind of adds a brief pause rather than being skipped over altogether. I wouldn't expect the average American to get it right without hearing it a few times. Dice-K just grates on my nerves for reasons I can't really explain and probably have something to do with my snooty elitist tendencies. :P I should probably just be glad that it reduces the number of times I'm going to have to say, "NO, you DON'T pronounce the U!!!11!!1eleventy" over the next few years.

[ravensgurl211.livejournal.com]

*snorts* I was amused at how much my local sports news was like: "LOOK AT WHAT NUMBER HE CHOOSE, HAHA!" This is why I only like the local news with the sports guy with a sense of humor, lol.