After tuning in to the English speaking casters at DH Masters my ears are hurting too much. The "jam" in Jamppi is not the same as in "jumpy", but more like in "yummy" (maybe someone can come up with a better example). You can hear many instances of the correct pronunciation in e.g. this or this clip.
EDIT: And I noticed the casters already changed how they say it. Thank you, much love <3
Posted May 28, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC · edited
Doesn't help that for some reason some Finnish players call him Jumpy in English interviews.
It's because Jamppi himself said it's pronounced "Jumpy". I think he said it in one of those betway videos or a post-game interview but I can't find the source. Another one that is commonly mispronounced is Xyp9x as Xyp-nyx instead of Xyp-ex.
Tbf, xyp9x's name is a fucking jumble of letters and numbers so I'm not surprised it's harder to pronounce. Jamppi's at least has a couple vowels and is at least sort of pronounce-able.
Xyp9x case is basically just like s1mple, no one says sonemple, number 1 is just more clear and word "simple" is so common that it's quick to get. But yeah took me for a while to understand 9 is e there too :D
Really? Well I'd assume it is to make it easier for foreigners. Smart move in a sense. Jamppi in Finnish doesn't roll of the tongue as well between English sentences as Jumpy.
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this 100%, if you are able to remember boombl4 = boomich, you can surely also remember to say yamppi instead of zamppi
I can’t stop calling him ‘Boomble’, no matter what.
Because he's a cute little boomblebee?
Niko pronounces it basically perfectly. Check yt video ”pro players react to jamppi plays”
That 3rd Niko clip is hilarious
Pure yoy
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down for this comment. It's literally the only comment this post needed.
They're watching us monkaS. Really though thanks for taking note.
Now they're sounding Swedish saying it lmao
Edit: nvm it was just for a bit
Seems they're still confused.
yeah wtf is going on haha, now they're saying yampy and not yumppy
Launders tried to politely hint that Scrawny was getting it wrong but Scrawny doubled down on his mispronunciation.
That shit was painful.
Slightly related note but seeing as there are native Finnish speakers I want to ask how you would pronounce 'zehn' as in the Godsent player? Most casters say zen as in a Japanese zen garden, but I feel like it should be pronounced like German word zehn. A tiny issue that keeps bugging me
Since Finnish doesn't really use the letter 'z' or combine 'hn' like they are in 'zehn', you can't really ask native Finnish speakers (other than zehn himself) the one correct way to pronounce the name.
But this is pretty much how Finnish casters and players pronounce it (use the text to speech)
Yeh that's pretty much they German way so sounds better to me, and so assume Zehn would say that
I pronounce it the German way, maybe because I studied German for a bit but it also just sounds way better in my opinion.
I agree although I can see why pronouncing the german z sound can be a bit difficult
There's really no actual way to pronounce it in Finnish, so some say tseen some say zeen (guessing thats the German way?). I prefer zeen. Don't think I've ever heard any Finnish caster or player call him zen with one e.
the -ehn sounds more like -ane in UK English, and then I guess the z vs ts is just whether you want to sound more German
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/jʌmp/ + /pi/
idk why people send stuff liek this in how to pronounce threads. i assure you 95% of people dont know how this pronounciation alphabet thing works
I took a linguistics course and I still don’t know how to read that shit
It's like responding with sheet music when someone asks for a song title
Depends on the school system. In Finland, all the books in my foreign language classes (English, Swedish, French) presented the pronunciations of words in IPA. Not that they expected us to be able to write IPA or anything like that.
Though if you don't know the language at all, you'll need to check Wikipedia to understand the sounds of that particular language.
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ɑ is correct.
The name is phonetically literally just /jam:pi/ (: standing in for this symbol)
You take
yyyyyYYYYYYYAAAAAS from the gay dinosaur here, removing the s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYbqce1BGNQ
You then add a solid mmmm equivalent to your reaction to his smooth flicks.
The PI should be no problem, as if youre like me, youre a home shutin that says pikachu more often than he wishes to admit.
Now the only thing left to do is actually learn how to pronounce all the russian nicknames like speed4k or dimasick properly and not call pro100 "pro one hundred".
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just like a swedish person would pronounce jump but add y at the end.
yumpy is right too, but emphasis on p as the name has 2 p's.
It just sounds like Austrian people trying to speak English
English casters pronounced Yam Ppi , not yummy...
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No, it's actually Jamp-pi. You gotta put the emphasis on the p so it's hard and long. Finnish language has this thing called double consonants. https://youtu.be/MetTsqlNfDU?t=48 this video of her saying kuka and kukka shows the difference. Works the same way with jamPPi.
Edit: Found a better video of how to pronounce it. That's him pronouncing Jamppi within the first 5 seconds of the video.
Se on /jam:pi/, first jam, then pause, then pi. First p is not pronounced.
edit: oppikaa oma kielenne retut
Wouldn't it be /jamp:i/? Pretty sure jam:pi would be jammpi
Kirjotit just jammpi. : kirjaimen jälkeen tarkoittaa pidennystä. Oikea IPA ois /jamp:i/ (vertaa sitä esim. hamppu IPAan). Opettele ite.
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How is it hard to pronounce lmao? JAMP-PI
sorry about that kept hearing different things
thanks for reacting so quickly! I understand it's not very intuitive for non-Finnish speakers.
It’s not intuitive for English speakers.
I think most Europeans can pronounce other European nations names pretty well even without speaking that language. Sure there are many exceptions... but Jamppi is pretty east imho.
OP is correct it is indeed pronounced how u started to pronounce it before scrawny derailed you :D
Glad you took the criticism well. I know this is such a trivial thing, but it does for some reason annoy people when names in their native language are pronounced poorly. Even tough jamppi is not an actual name lol
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