Why do Anime/Anime enthusiasts pronounce "desu" with as (DE-SU) or (DAY-SUE)? 99.9% of Japanese dialects pronounce it des, I've never seen any non anime media say anything other than des, its pronounced des. Why does only anime do this?
its a joke anon
It's a way to sound out how a word sounds.
Say you figured out a cool word in another language. Like Home. If you haven't heard how it sounds, then you may end up saying, 'homu' or 'hum' instead of 'hum'
desu thread?
>>124547083
made me laugh
Anime tends to have a very, very over-exaggerated, unorthodox way of speaking (mainly in bad anime's, better ones tend not to do this) but this essentially results in weebs who don't know shit about the language being taught that pronouncing the hard u at the end of a sentence and massively overstretching the last syllable on words like kawaii is a normal way of speaking.
>why do fags talk like fags
You're the expert, Opie. You tell me.
>>124547145
Desu thread.
It is somewhat baffling how little Anime enthusiasts know about the language. Its not like desu is a cutsie word used by females/adorable things. It's one of if not the most common words in the entire language. Its the equivalent of the English "the, that, it". I wonder why people get so attached to that word...
Death
>>124547546
>Its the equivalent of the English "the, that, it"
Desu is a verb, nigger.
>>124547310
>anime's
>>124547653
No. No it is not. I speak Japanese, desu is nothing anything close to a verb.
>>124547653
niggawat.jpg
>>124547717
It's not a verb, but it's closer to a verb than other aspects of English
>>124547717
>nothing anything close
Nigger, you hardly speak English.
http://www.matsu-kaze.net/mk/dadesu/
Why does Compa pronounce the "u"?
Desu always sounds like "dis" to me in anime, except for certain characters
>>124547781
Its doesn't remotely resemble a verb. It can't be conjugated, it does not describe a state of being, it cannot have an adverb before it, it doesn't indicate an action. Its not even in the same ballpark as a verb. It links the subject with the verb. Without it, the subject of the sentence is not implied. Its the reason Watashi is not that common, the "I" or "it" is implied by desu. Its not a fucking verb.
>>124547310
>>124547546
>>124547717
Newfags, please go away.
>>124547878
Some dialects will pronounce the u if they are being VERY feminine. Its uncommon, like the guy above said, Anime tends to over-exaggerate.
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>>124547989
You can conjugate it. It is somewhat similar to a verb, its a copula. It doesn't work the same as english, stop comparing it to that.
>>124547900
Accents man. But op is right, its defiantly not produced "desu" in most cases.
Same reason english speakers pronounce "Déja Vu" as "Dayja vous" or "Chez" as "chaise"
>>124548559
Surely after watching so much Anime, they would pick up on the actual pronunciation? Or do people here actually watch dubs?
>>124546854
dayonee
>>124547546
>>124547653
>>124547717
>>124547781
It's the copula, you mouthbreathing fagcannons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_%28linguistics%29
>>124548821
>it's not a verb
>it's a SPECIFIC KIND of verb
>>124548821
It is a type of verb, god people fucking suck at Japanese. You should see the daily Japanese thread the goes around here, its embarrassing. It does have conjurations, no it does not act the same as a normal verb, but it is still a form of verb. Jesus.
>>124547717
You are the dumbest faggot on this board.
>>124547717
>desu is nothing anything close to a verb
It's short for であります, is it not?
>>124548945
*Conjugations.
Apparently my English aint all that great.
>>124546854
You can pronounce it however you want. Some songs will pronounce the U when they need to.
>>124549092
You're English AINT'N'T all that grate. Christ.
>>124549060
It is a type of verb, don't listen to him.
>>124549088
Essentially.
>>124548151
that is clearly a boku
>>124548681
Do you really expect mouthbreathing con-going turbo weeaboos to actually watch subs?
>>124546854
>Japanese dialects pronounce it des
No they pronounce it as desu. Even though it sounds like des it doesn't change the fact that is still pronounced as desu. It's saying it's pronounce "nuckles".
>>124549359
How are you alive with autism this severe?
>>124549359
Do you not know how written pronunciation works?
>>124549255
Yes, and I would say that.
