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I'm missing some obvious joke...but why is he pronouncing it yava-script.

• bttf 12y ago
  Ask a Hispanic friend.
  • mgr86 12y ago
    gotcha.
  • nkozyra 12y ago
    Rather, ask a Scandinavian friend.
    • JacksonGariety 12y ago
      My scandinavian friends call it yay-va-script.
      • Hansi 12y ago
        I'm Icelandic and we use yava-script, I find it hard to figure out how yay-va sounds.
        • JacksonGariety 12y ago
          YAY as opposed to nay VUH as in vagina SCRIPT pronounced normally
        • aaronem 12y ago
          Perhaps it would help to see that pronunciation rendered in IPA for English [0]: /ˈiːeɪ.və.ˌskrɪpt/ Note particularly the italicized phoneme (eɪ), which corresponds to the "long A" sound in English, e.g., the 'a' in 'face'. I'm unfamiliar with the Icelandic language, but according to the English equivalents listed on Wikipedia's page on IPA for Icelandic [1], the corresponding phoneme in that language appears to be ei. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Icelandic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Icelandic
      • Kiro 12y ago
        I'm from Scandinavia and have never heard anyone pronounce it like that.
• philangist 12y ago
  I thought it was supposed to be a callback to this scene in Anchorman, but I'm not sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LnP3uraDo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LnP3uraDo
• jetsnoc 12y ago
  He's in character of it being 2035 and the pronunciation was lost/changed.
  • lomnakkus 12y ago
    I think you're probably right -- he almost slips up at one point, but corrects himself before pronouncing the "va".
  • 100k 12y ago
    I was hoping he'd drop in some reference that would explain it, like the take over of world government by Norway after the war (sort of like Poul Anderson's Tau Zero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero). But I guess he just wanted it to be inscrutable.
• tambourine_man 12y ago
  I thought it was supposed to be some future pronunciation thing, imagining the way languages evolve. I've seen SciFi movies where in the future english is heavily influenced by spanish.
• mianos 12y ago
  No hard 'J's in many languages (Like Slavic languages). It's pronounced 'y'. Anyone have a list?
  • jarek-foksa 12y ago
    The sound ʤ seems to occur in most Slavic languages [1], I guess the primary reason why "Java" is read as "Yava" is because people tend to apply local pronunciation rules to commonly used foreign words, either because of lack of knowledge of native pronunciation or because native pronunciation sounds just silly. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palato-alveolar_affricate#Occurrence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palato-alveolar_affricat...
    • gurkendoktor 12y ago
      YavaScript is a very common pronunciation in Germany, the dj sound only appears in "loannames" like Jennifer. My grandfather always told me to find a nice yob :)
• Kiro 12y ago
  How else would you pronounce it?
• SimeVidas 12y ago
  At the 8:00 mark, he accidentally pronounces it correctly for a moment, and then "corrects himself" by mispronouncing it :-)
• paul_f 12y ago
  I'm assuming the original pronounciation was lost in the war.