The Local Dialect

◉◉maru

exodus Australians pronouncing Sega as See-ga.

Are there maybe a lot of Italian immigrants in Australia? I know sega means “a saw” / “sawing” in Italian, and (due to the back-and-forth motion implied) is also a very common slang word for male masturbation. I have been told this has been a problem for Sega’s marketing in Italy in the past, with local store chains asking them to be careful in TV commercials, etc. (Very charitable hypothesis but) maybe the Australian marketing person had this in mind?

Wow, you were not kidding about it being decades old.

rejj

◉◉maru Are there maybe a lot of Italian immigrants in Australia?

Indeed there are, along with quite a few other Euro countries. I’m not sure if it is still true, but for a long time Melbourne hosted the largest Greek population outside of Athens

milo

◉◉maru

I didn’t know kick em up was a thing and I find that hilarious. I’m gonna start referring to the judgment series as a kick em up now.

Syzygy

exodus

you gotta specify where “over here” is!

Uh, check the very sentence before that?

exodus

Syzygy wow, I read you being part of the east coast scene as being part of the east coast west coast rivalry… I really inferred a lot of incorrect information!

rootfifthoctave

milo

“SNES” being pronounced “snezz”. Although I think it made be mostly a British thing. It just weirds me out. Where I’m from, the first nintendo console was an “en-ee-ess” so naturally, the next one was the “super en-ee-ess”

i just watched a video from modernvintagegamer where they called the emulator zsnes “zee-sness”, which seems to me to be a peculiar splitting of the difference between the presumed american “zee-ess-en-ee-ess” and “zed-sness” as we used to call it.

antillese

“Zee-sness” is valid because that’s how I might pronounce that word without other context clues.

I’ve heard Kat Bailey and a few others on Retronauts pronounce the console “the sness” and I love them all over there and respect their opinions, but still think that’s a crazy way to say that. But it may just be my local dialect. 😉

antillese

Look everyone, I made this thread mostly to post a Kriss Kross lyric about “running to the next board”!

🤣🤣

treefroggy

Where I was a kid in the rural south, it was all Nintenduh tapes and ExBawks and Hay Lowe
I was pretty sure I was the only kid in the tri county area who even knew what a Metroid is

Syzygy

In the early 00’s I actually was flying to California twice a year, but I never did visit the arcades. Missed opportunity!

Syzygy

This is not a regional term so much as one that fell out of official use:

2 PLAYER SIMULTANEOUS

exodus

Syzygy an yeah, in the early 2000s we still had cvs2 and mvc2 going over here! I think I’ve said it on the show but I’m pretty sure I got owned by justin wong in cvs2 while he was just talking to his friend and not watching the screen one day. I didn’t know what he looked like at the time but thinking back it was the right general shape of human and he sure was destroying everybody with a decent sized gallery around him so… it fits

antillese

So apparently me saying “es-ness” was enough to completely halt conversation with my forum friends from out of state.

kory

antillese I would argue that it didn’t so much halt conversation as it suddenly and violently initiated an entirely new topic of conversation

exodus

antillese I’m more of an ess-ega fan myself

DavidNoo

I wonder if people like me throw a wrench in this whole mix. I make up new phrases constantly by interchanging the words of existing ones. I think I just did it in the first sentence.

whatsarobot

exodus “ega” pronounced “egg-uh” or “ee-guh”?

antillese

whatsarobot “es-ee-gee-ae”.

You know. “Super” extended graphics adapter. That DOS standard from the mid-80s.

Syzygy

Sega is a tonal language

DavidNoo

Syzygy

whoops you forgot to share the whole thing

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