| How do you even pronounce this Anime title? I know how to say "Elfen" but I had always thought that you pronounced "Lied" like when you say that you lied to someone. Is that really how you pronounce it or is it pronounced like "lead" like to lead a chorus or is it pronounced like "Lee-ed"? |
| It's German for "Song" and is pronounced leed or lead. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: It's German for "Song" and is pronounced leed or lead. Lead when it is the verb, not when it is a noun though. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| I pronounce it as lid. |
| Well I'm gonna just pronounce it as lead like when you lead something. I hope thats right. |
AlexSadist-sama said: I pronounce it as lid. The vowel in Lied is a bit longer than the vowel in lid though. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Now I heard that its pronounced as "Leat". Someone sent me a link for it on Wikipedia and that is what it says. |
| its dutch for song for me, so i can just pronounce it normally ;). |
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| http://translate.google.com/#auto/de/elfen%20lied just press the listen button |
| 天の神 El. Psy. Congroo. |
| El-Fen Leee-eeeee-eeee-eee-D |
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| Nyuu |
| I definitely have superpowers. I can feel it in my balls. |
| I say Elfen Leeeeeed |
| If you want it in phonetics: [ˈɛlfn̩ liːt] By the way, I say "erfen riido", because it's Japanese pronounced German. |
NoboruNov 7, 2012 1:42 PM
| I seriously just learned that it's pronounced "Leed", not "Lied". After SO many years, too. Wth is going on... |
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| I know it's pronounced that way but I still pronounce as "lied" anyway. Just like I say "mafia" as "muh-fiya" Fuck you English I'm not your bitch |
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| news to me O_O shit I always said Lied |
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| oofen looed |
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| It's german, & means Elf's Song. I dunno, I've always said it right. But then again english isn't my 1st language. |
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| The only reason I know it was pronounced "leed" is because of Arkada |
| Hmm, guess I have been pronouncing it right. Yey! what do I win? |
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| I pronounced it as Lied before I saw a promo or something and I heard it as Leed. |
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| Threads Merged. |
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| My native language is Afrikaans which is derived from partial German so pronunciation was never an issue since it is the same. |
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| It's in fact pronounced like "leed". |
Jonas_The_Jay said: It's in fact pronounced like "leed". this it's German not English it means "The Song of Elves" |
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| Lol I've always pronounced it as "Lied". Literally. Fuck it though |
| Erufen Rīto, like duuh |
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PzKpfw_VI_Tiger said: Erufen Rīto, like duuh LOL yush. That's precisely it. |
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Greyzone75 said: Wow this is amazing not a single one of you is correct, the song for the opening is in latin by the way not German so Lied doesnt translate into song it translates into red and Elfen doesnt mean elf in latin it is the word for lilium which surprise is the name of the song. So Elfen Lied is actually Red Lilium. By the way Lied is pronounced Lee-ed not Lyed or Leed. But Elfenlied is a song by Eduard Mörike which translates to "Elves Song". Literally check Google Translate and it says that the title is German. |
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| Yup, I get how to pronounce it now guys. It's pronounced as to "lead" a team, band or choir for example. |
| Oh, this is news to me. Turned out I was wrong all this time, since I watched this series back in 2010. |
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| Thanks so much for this thread. |
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