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Wills

Wills

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junglefish said:
Beautiful Beautiful debuted at #8 on Gaon!!! ONF's previous highest peak was #102 with Sukhumvit Swimming. That's incredible, continue streaming it whoreses!
Thanks to ONF superfan @Wills for bringing this to my attenshun <3
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and thanks to @Slice of Life for bringing it to mine fff

If anyone needs me I’ll be E-Tion in this pic for the rest of the year:

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Wills

Wills

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Conan said:


I really enjoyed this thread and learnt a bunch. For example, I used to pronounce fromis_9 "froomeeze nine" in my head.
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I wanted to dunk on the OP for being a bit... precious about Enhypen/BTS nn. But then I saw that CIX isn't pronounced "six" so I should probably keep my mouth shut!

Also, this from the comments re (G)I-DLE:
Don't get me wrong, it's a really clever word play but it's on so many levels in 2 languages that you can't expect people to follow:
  • Silent G (as in gnome)
  • But G is for girl which is actually 여자 (which is not G but J), neither of which are silent.
  • I is the English word but you can't write that in Korean so they have to write 아이 (A-EE) which likely has zero meaning for Koreans without an explanation.
  • "I" is for an individual which is fair enough but then "dle" is for 들, the plural suffix in Korean, which is pronounced slightly differently as the sound of ㅡ has no English equivalent.
  • I-dle is supposed to be a play on Idol but it consists of 2 languages.
  • And then to bring it back to the G: The whole thing means "multiple female individuals" to indicate that they should be viewed as 6 separate artists working together rather than simply one group as boy/girl groups are often viewed. But if the G is silent, then it's just "multiple individuals" which misses the point of female empowerment the name represents.
So, like I said, it's really clever and deep. But one step too far for new fans in either language when they don't even know how it's supposed to be pronounced
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Glitterizer

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Conan said:
My mind immediately goes to "Enhyphen" so "Enhypen" doesn't come naturally and it takes effort to pronounce it as it's written.
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Well, in Korean that’s kind of the point. Since they don’t really have a ph (f) sound, both ways would be pronounced the same! Their shortened logo is “EN-“ so it’s supposed to mean hyphen as well. I guess I’m making it sound more complex than it is fff
 
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