Talk:Improved Kanhon Type Turbine/@comment-26334968-20150720173901/@comment-24980562-20150722120531

Maybe you guys don't know as you are not into naval topics and design but the persons and books I've listed are all famous, well known, accurate and respected in naval circles. Also it is wikipedia... while japanese are more strict in accurate data it is still freely editable.

True, but why would the Japanese Wikipedia fuck up something as basic as the pronunciation of the topic the article is about?

Whatever you guys think we are westerners, well for US players, Easterners for Japan, and the official designation is Kanpon Boilers and Kanpon Geared Steam Turbines.

I'll just ignore this statement. Besides, as Ben Seigi has already pointed out, bot transliterations are correct in the end, so we decided to go with the one that's more commonly used in Japan. Not to mention that my sources all used "kanhon". You know, actually Japanese sources. So suck it.

I've searched for Kanhon Turbines on google, and got only 3 pages of 115 results, 1st page is this wrong designation of the Kancolle wiki, others findings are not relevant, there is a modeller site writing kanhon turbines and 1-2 semi naval oriented data site stating Kanhon. For Kanpon turbine it is 187.000 results showing images of warships and engines, while the Kanhon only shows the Kancolle shipgirls. This is more then enough for me!

Weird. I did the exact same thing, and I got more result for "kanhon". But that's probably because I googled "艦本", "かんほん" and "かんぽん". You know, actual Japanese.

As for correct translations... ō is not ou... it is "o" in english or ó in Hungarian. For example Hosho says HOSHO not HOUSHOU! (In Hungarian we would say Hóshó which is the same pronunciation as Hōshō ) But this depends on the translation method someone uses. My Japanese friend agrees with me that ō is more like o then ou!

PffftAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh wow, this shit comedy gold! You wanna know why her name is transliterated as "Houshou"? Just take a look at the kana: ほうしょう See that? See the "う"? In case you don't know: "う" = "U" Granted, "ou" isn't pronounced literally like that, but like a long O. The same applies to "えい". It's "ei", but pronounced like a long E. And no, this isn't about translation in case you haven't realised yet, this is about transliteration standards. Here we're using the Hepburn transliteration standard because it's the most commonly used method and is probably the closest to the actual pronunciation.

tl;dr

Congratulations, you completely missed the point.