Sega or Saega?

[moosh01]

Take your pick.

 

[Advi]

Say-gah

that's what it said on my old Game Gear...

 

[choconado]

Fun to be Finnish - we actually pronounce Japanese stuff right naturally - If you read my message and do not see millions of SEGA logo videos, enable your flash and start listening... and that is just how Finnish also would read out loud text "SEGA"

I would link the frikin' 90's Finnish commercial of "16-BIT SEGA!" (as it said) to prove my point but that would be boring.

Fun fact: Sega is not a Japanese word. The company was founded by an ex-pat American, and the title is short for "Selected Games" as they originally called themselves making pachinko machines; the chips in the machines said "SE-GA" and that's where it took off.

 

[Blood Fetish]

Say-gah is the correct pronunciation.

 

[DeadLocked]

Take your pick.

I voted say-gah like on the intros.
And that video I like how they slag off nintendo "Genesis does what Nintendon't" They would never get away with it nowadays lawsuits

 

[cracker]

Hmmmm this is a deep thought here...

Say-Guh

I suppose the proper pronunciation of it would be

Suh-Gay

considering it is short for Service Games.

 

[Porobu]

SEGA

 

[Deleted_171835]

Say-Ga.

Seemed to be the proper way to say it.

 

[yuyuyup]

I have never heard of "Sega" be pronounced by anyone in that way, let alone heard anything other than "say-gah" or "seh-gah" IS THIS A LIE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ARE YOU LYING ABOUT HEARING PEOPLE PRONOUNCE SEGA ALL CRAZY ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I say it like "Say-gah", like they used to in their earlier games. Remember the guys who used to go "Seeeeeee-gaaaaa!" at the title screen?

Although I don't usually say Sega that much, most of the time I only mention it here. My friends aren't as big video game knowledge people as I am.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

I pronounce it "Seh-Gah". So since I pronounce it like that, my pronunciation is automatically 100% correct and anyone who says it in the Japanese or their natural way is a retarded babble monkey.

 

[Sstew]

Seh-gah.

"seg" as in Segment
then "Gah"

 

[DeMoN]

I've always used "Sae-ga." In fact, I've never heard anyone pronounce it "See-ga" before, so I'm quite surprised at the poll results.

 

[updowners]

Where's the "Either way" option?

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

Well, I use both...I don't really care which is used. But I suppose, since it's used, the officially used pronunciation is "Sey-Gah", guess that's what's right.

 

[Lubbo]

hmm well i guess i should start saying Sae-ga/Say-ga if thats the proper way lol

 

[toguro_max]

Seh-gah is the pronunciation of the Japanese, therefore the "correct". It's katakana is セガ, which reads SEH (like SEgment, as mentioned above) and GA (like GArden).
Americans tend to "americanize" words, like Naruto, Avatar (the last airbender) Toph, and other "japanese" names. Most probaly it's not "intentional", but a matter of "native" way of pronouncig stuff...

 

[GameSoul]

I pronounce it Seh-gah

 

[Fat D]

Depends.. Sometimes Saygah, sometimes Seggah. Zehgah when I speak German.

 

[user0002]

If speaking to another Finn I just say Seega, but if I'm speaking to someone who doesn't speak Finnish I say Sayga.