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(Q from a beginner Japanese student: where's the fourth syllable in ディーブイディー? Does ブイ count as two mora and ディー counts as one?)

• deleted 10y ago
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• fenomas 10y ago
  By JP standards, the way you mean, DVD has six syllables (ディ ー ブ イ ディ ー). The previous poster probably meant that the Japanese pronunciation sounds like what in English would be considered four syllables.
  • krapp 10y ago
    Yes, that's what I meant.