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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.

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[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.