So, what's the joke? Her name sounding like japanese/spanish "Ri", like in Wryyy?

dandan said:

So, what's the joke? Her name sounding like japanese/spanish "Ri", like in Wryyy?

Yes.

Wow. I've been saying her name wrong all this time then. I thought it was said like "Ray" like in the music scale.

I figured Ri-class would be the one to have the WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY joke. So is Ri pronounced like Rye Bread?

dragnfly said:

Wow. I've been saying her name wrong all this time then. I thought it was said like "Ray" like in the music scale.

I figured Ri-class would be the one to have the WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY joke. So is Ri pronounced like Rye Bread?

More like Wry is pronounced Re. You must have been pronouncing her the the Japanese way since Re sounds the same as the Re in Repeat, at least in english.

pretty sure レ is pronounced more "reh" than "ree"

dragnfly said:

Wow. I've been saying her name wrong all this time then. I thought it was said like "Ray" like in the music scale.

I figured Ri-class would be the one to have the WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY joke. So is Ri pronounced like Rye Bread?

You've actually being doing it right (though it's somewhere between "ray" and "reh"). The artist is American, and Americans tend to pronounce the name "Re-class" as "reclass", as if it meant "to classify again", so the pun's technically based on a mispronunciation. Using proper pronunciation, it should've been Ri-class depicted here, but eh, the idea got across.

dragnfly said:

Wow. I've been saying her name wrong all this time then. I thought it was said like "Ray" like in the music scale.

I figured Ri-class would be the one to have the WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY joke. So is Ri pronounced like Rye Bread?

Japanese vowel approximations, using pseudo-phonetic spelling:

あ (A 'Ah')　い (I 'Ee')　う(O 'Oo')　え(E 'Eh')　お(O 'Oh')

Then continue:

Kah Kee Koo Keh Koh
Sah Shee Soo Seh Soh
Tah Chee Tsoo Teh Toh
Nah Nee Noo Neh Noh
Hah Hyee Fhoo Heh Hoh
Mah Mee Moo Meh Moh
Yah Yoo Yoh*
Rah Ree Roo Reh Roh
Wah Woh*

*Wi (Wee) and We (Weh) are obsolete, and are pronounced as Ee and Eh if used for stylistic reasons (like Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe). That's why Tewi　is pronounced as "tei" (roughly how 'tay' would be pronounced in some dialects of English).

Yi, Ye, and Wu are generally considered (and often taught) to be nonexistent, but their man'yogana (precursor to hiragana) counterparts did exist. In any case the sounds are nonexistent in modern Japanese.

It took this long to make this joke?

Internet, I am very disappoint.

cd_young said:

It took this long to make this joke?

Internet, I am very disappoint.

Unsurprising, considering the joke doesn't even work unless the reader mispronounces both 'wry' and 're' in a certain specific way.

So, who do you think would be Jotarou? (and star platinum?)