The Fr ie za thing.

[songohan619]

Why do you guys say "Fraiza" when FUNimation spells it Fr ie za? With that spelling, wouldn't it sound like the normal spelling of the name.
Just saying, I am not for the FUNi spelling, just courious as to why you say FrAIza.

[Herms]

I'm not sure what you're talking about.

[songohan619]

Yeah, it was kind of hard to write, and get around the Freeza filter on the forum.

[dbgtFO]

Pretty sure that most people who go by the funi dub would pronounce it akin to the original pronounciation.
I've never heard anyone say Fraiza, so please elaborate on where you've heard it?

[songohan619]

Pretty sure that most people who go by the funi dub would pronounce it akin to the original pronounciation.
I've never heard anyone say Fraiza, so please elaborate on where you've heard it?

Podcast, and fans. Not on the anime itself.

[dbboxkaifan]

I used to write Freeza but Friеza's better in my opinion, it's basically pronounced Friza (Furiza) 'cos the letter E is silent. I just don't like the two letter E's which are ii's in Freeza.

Hate that I have to activate the Russian keyboard system every time for Friеza's name but rarely ever comes up so whatever.

Here's Hеrcule (or Hercules -- some international AB Groupe based dubs) without any censorship too.

By the way, the international fans of the Spanish, Portuguese (PT), French and whatnot say Frizer (they normally spell as: Freezer).

[VegettoEX]

He's asking why people -- mostly just me -- speak aloud "Fry-za" when reading the FUNimation spelling of the character's name with the "i".

It's because I'm petty, I think it looks stupid, and I like mispronouncing things that people write poorly. That being said, if the rest of their e-mail is written impeccably, I won't say it. If the rest of it is filled with wrong words and a complete lack of any structure, I'll either correct the whole thing before it makes the show, or I'll read it as if I'm a monkey down on hard times.

[Drabaz]

It's because I'm petty, I think it looks stupid, and I like mispronouncing things that people write poorly.

I think it's your fault that I do the exact same thing when I see the Funimation spelling of his name. I also say it like I'm sounding it out. Freeee-i-zaaaaaa

[linkdude20002001]

English words often follow the German pronunciation rules for ie and ei. As such, Frieza is pronounced Free-zuh, just like with the ie in believe. If it were Freiza, however, THEN it would be frahy-zuh, like with the ei in kaleidoscope.

[Bussani]

I used to write Freeza but Friеza's better in my opinion, it's basically pronounced Friza (Furiza) 'cos the letter E is silent. I just don't like the two letter E's which are ii's in Freeza.

I don't look at "Friza" and feel like I should be pronouncing it the same as "Furiiza", personally. My first instinct would be to pronounce it like the "friz" in "frizzy hair".

English words often follow the German pronunciation rules for ie and ei. As such, Frieza is pronounced Free-zuh, just like with the ie in believe.

Unless you pronounce it like "french fries". Maybe that wouldn't be quite the right way to read it, but I wouldn't blame someone for making the mistake if they didn't know better.

[OutlawTorn]

It's because I'm petty, I think it looks stupid, and I like mispronouncing things that people write poorly.

What makes it stranger is your name has the "ie" combination which carries the "ee" pronunciation, but that might just make it funnier. Personally, I've always thought people were arguing via Japanese pronunciation rules while using English pronunciations for the letters themselves. What I mean is how vowel combinations will create sounds based upon the composition, for example:

beautiful - roughly "bi-you-ti-ful"
beau - roughly "bow" (as in "bow and arrow")

Same letters but a completely different sound, while Japanese rules don't mix the sounds so they would see "Fri-eza" as "fry-ee-za."

Though I can certainly understand that the spelling could look stupid to you, as I personally think the "Gokuh" spelling of Goku's name looks really stupid particularly since my English-wired brain reads the last syllable the same as I would "couple" or "cousin" as opposed to "coo."

I guess it just doesn't bother me too much as I listen to another podcast where one of the hosts has the name "Fried" which is pronounced the same as "freed."

[dbboxkaifan]

I guess it just doesn't bother me too much as I listen to another podcast where one of the hosts has the name "Fried" which is pronounced the same as "freed."

How is Fried and Freed the same?

Fried's like "fraid" and Feed's "friid", it's not quite the same.

[OutlawTorn]

I guess it just doesn't bother me too much as I listen to another podcast where one of the hosts has the name "Fried" which is pronounced the same as "freed."

How is Fried and Freed the same?

Fried's like "fraid" and Feed's "friid", it's not quite the same.

Simple, his name is spelled "Fried" and he pronounced it "freed." Or, are you saying he doesn't know how to say his own name? (notice in the quote how I explicitly said "the name 'Fried'" not "fried" in general) And, yes, I do know how "fried" is generally pronounced, I'm not an idiot but the point is "ie" does not always produce an "eye" pronunciation in English or other languages, for that matter.

Take "die" for example.

In English, it would be pronounced "dye"
In German, it would be pronounced "dee"

And a quick check on Wikipedia indicates "Fried" is a surname of German origin, roughly translating into "peace" in English. Mystery solved!

Oh, and for the record, just for the hell of it I put "Fr-ie-za" and "Frieze" into Google Translate under the English language and it was pronounced with an "ee" sound, so there's nothing about the spelling which cannot sound proper. My only guess (as a hypothesis, not a justification) as to why they used that particular spelling is to give it more of an alien feel.

[mysticboy]

Well, "ie" does make an "ee" sound like "niece" or "piece" for example. But that's still no excuse for Funi spelling Freeza like Frieza.

[jpdbzrulz4sure]

Is it possible that FUNi went with the "ie" spelling of Freeza's name because it might've been rendered that way in the (poorly) translated scripts they received from Toei, back in the day when FUNi couldn't afford a professional translator?

Just a thought.

[hleV]

The ie in Frieza makes as much sense as pronouncing it as Fry-za, so here you go.

[OutlawTorn]

The ie in Freeza makes as much sense as pronouncing it as Fry-za, so here you go.

Well, the spelling is more of an aesthetics thing where it either bothers you or it doesn't. So, I guess spelling it with an "ie" makes about as much sense as spelling Goku as "Gokou" or "Gokuh" or even "Gokuu."

Why is it people don't seem to have a problem with the many different spellings of "Goku" yet "Fr-ie-za" raises their ire? It is because it's not a straight "freezer" pun or is it because it's a FUNimation thing and is associated with the Pauline Newstone/Linda Young voices?

[VegettoEX]

I certainly have a problem with the "Gokou" spelling along with "Ginew", and those are official Japanese ones that've always been in place. It ain't a FUNimation thing -- it's a "logic" thing.

[CaBrPi]

Well, there is a difference there. Like others have said "ie" can be pronounced like "ee", but, as far as I'm aware "ew" is pronounced like "oo", rather than "yu", and "ou" (like in "Gokou") is pronounced like a long "o", and not the "oo" sound.

So, yeah, I look at "Gokou" and want to pronounce it "Goko", but Freeza with an "i"... that can go either way.

See what I did there?

[Herms]

I certainly have a problem with the "Gokou" spelling along with "Ginew".

I think "Ginew" if anything makes it easier for English speakers to see the correct pronunciation than "Ginyu" does, but I suppose that's neither here nor there.