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“Anime” comes from the Japanese Katakana word for animation (animeeeshon), so it usually refers to the animated/moving images
by artdigital 3y ago
“Anime” comes from the Japanese Katakana word for animation (animeeeshon), so it usually refers to the animated/moving images
- tuukkah 3y agoIntriguing, why does it have a triple e when written - is it just a way to emphasize that the vowel is pronounced long, or is it reallly long?
- e12e 3y agoIt's a bit of an artifact of the "dash indicating long e": アニメーション - a-ni-me-ee-ts(u)-yo-n Just means long e "me". It could be written more like: anime-tsyon (dash indicating long vowel). Or: a-ni-me-e-ts(u)-yo-n.
- tuukkah 3y agoWhat I've seen most is the line put above the vowel, resulting in animē (but difficult to type). As there is no additional (fourth) syllable, a-ni-mee would be more logical to me, rather than a-ni-me-ee or a-ni-me-e. That being said, I like how the triple vowel makes it clear it's not the same sound as in say meet. (This gives me the idea to change my name to tuuukkkah...)
- rjh29 3y agoThree 'e's is not correct. ー is a single mora, so should usually be one vowel. E.g. ラーメン is raamen not raaamen. ショ is sho (or syo if you use Japan-style romanization) not tsu. So the proper romanisation is something like 'animeeshon'. That said, romanisation is often done inconsistently, e.g. Osaka vs. oosaka.
- e12e 3y ago> ショ is sho (or syo if you use Japan-style romanization) not tsu. Of course - I'm a little rusty and sometimes confuse シ (shi) and ツ (tsu) - even when obvious from context :/
- artdigital 3y agoI just wanted to make it clear that its a long “e”, but pretty much the same word as “animation”, not the correct english spelling of an english-imported word :p
- tough 3y agoIt's adopted from english? Just sounds like how a japanese would write animation
- artdigital 3y agoYeah that’s pretty much it. Katakana words are mostly just imported foreign words There’s “moving images” (動画), but that’s used for video in general, not specific to animation