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So... 'Iifa Tree' or 'lifa Tree'?

posted 17 years ago by Hyperventilating_Neolith
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There's a difference. A subtle one, but a difference all the same

Okay, so it's the tree of life, right? So it would make sense to be called the lifa Tree (or with the correct capitalisation, Lifa Tree).

But the fact of the matter is that that capitalisation is blatantly incorrect: if it was called the Lifa Tree, then why lower-case the "L" to give "lifa"? In which case, surely it's an "i" instead - the Iifa Tree.

It's a discussion my friends and I have had for a while - I still maintain that it's the Iifa (with an "i") Tree.

Thoughts? And if it's an "i", how would you pronounce it?

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[–] yunako 17 years ago

that always confused me. i still don't know if it's "lifa" with an L or if it's "Iifa" with an I. @_@

[–] MaroonSerpent 17 years ago

I always pronounce it Ee-j-ee-fa.

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[–] Jennabe 17 years ago

How did you get "j" out of "ii"?

[–] Hyperventilating_Neolith 17 years ago

I figured they were referring to a Germanic "j" (i.e. a "y")...

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[–] Jennabe 17 years ago

It's "Iifa". Pronounced "Ee-fuh".

[–] svante-ostrom 17 years ago

No. It's "Ee-fuh-puff-this-is-sparta"

[–] CaptainHowdy1987 17 years ago

It's definitely spelled with an "I". That's with an "eye", not an "el".

I've pronounced it "eye-ee-fah", but it's probably "ee-fah"

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[–] Kyuu 14 years ago

id most likely say its Eh-fah but i did used to pronounce it a Lifa only mainly cause it sounded better and i figured it was possibly a punctuation error from jap into eng
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