Correct way to pronounce Tein

[TheSnail]

How do yo do it? For years ive called it teen including many of my friends, but then my boss critisized me because the correct way it "Tine" but then on then on the internet I found someone that met the president of the company and he said it was Tane. So what the hell? Mostpeople call it "Teen" , only to be made fun of by the ones that call it "tine" then to be corrected by the "tane's". Let's settle this once and for all ! Pick the one that you belive it is.

A) Teen
B) Tine
C) Tane

[skills]

i say teen

[G_Fish240]

well in english if a word has two vowels next to each other you put the empahsise on the last one, so I would say "tine"

[TheSnail]

G fish, thats what my boss said. But what the guy that met with the co. said its tane.

[aa87]

I call it tane too, i used to be like tee an

[huevos]

"ei" is ussally pronounced like a long "A". like weight, neighbor, etc. So I go with Tane

[Demik]

english teacher?

[Pepperoni]

I call it "tane", but this one professional driver at an auto-x track day called them "tee-N". So..... i dunno

[Heartwork]

it is pronounced Tane goddamnit

[Drift101]

TEchnical INnovations.....

[po1z5che__]

its TANE, if u look at theyre ads in sum magazines, itll say tan with a line over the a.

[NI_YON_Zenki]

TRUST. Its TAIN.
Say it as if there was an "A" in place of the "E"
(someone must be new to the realm)

[brianglawson]

i always said TEE-IN but ive heard tane also

[TheSnail]

I think I am going to call Tein them selves and ask. I might sound like a dumb-ass on the phone, but then we will know for sure.

[KOUKI KA-T]

When you get chinese food to you order Chow "mane" of chow "mee-in". It's tane, or tain or taint - t.

[TheSnail]

Tain tain love... OOH OH OH OOOHH, tain tain love...

That reminds me of a song from my younger years.
Anyways I now starting to belive that it is "Tane"

[KiDyNomiTe]

wow this is like the 5th thread about this, look at thier ads, it says how to say it.

[msaskin]

Tein rhymes with pain.

Go here and read up, there is a thing about it next to the picture of the asian dude: http://www.3sxperformance.com/suspension-vertical.asp

~matt

[S14DB]

What Tein? Like golf clubs?

[zdude]

Originally Posted by S14DB

What Tein? Like golf clubs?

hahahahahaha

[TurK]

i say it like ( tee - an ) hmmm....

[M.Piedlourde]

Originally Posted by msaskin

Tein rhymes with pain.

Matt's right. I called them up and asked one day. I'm assuming they were pronouncing their own name correctly.

[oojpeeoo]

just say it however u wana say it

[240meowth]

in japanese, there's a symbol for te, i, and n, there for it is te-i-n, but in japanese i sounds like "e" and e sounds like "eh", and n is just a nose sound, like u trying to take a really big dump and it's not coming out, there for it is te-e-n, yes, that's my 4 years of japanese learning skills

[TheSnail]

Yeaaaaah ! ! ! The Teen pronouncers are head to head with the Tane's, But I think 240meowth's message is more convincing then Kouki's.

[Andrew Bohan]

holy shit
i can't belive this thread exists.
anyway, watch this vid: http://www.tein.co.jp/teinpv.ram
the announcer says "tein" at 0:38 and it rhymes with pain

like drift101 said, tein stands for technical innovation, you can hear the announcer mention that too.

the word "tein" is a japanese-style acronym. since they don't have letters, and just characters for syllables, they can't pull off the first letters of words. they must pull of whole syllables of words to be able to write acronyms in their own characters.

[holisticbeatz]

Toe-may-toe

[boro240]

the horse is dead already!

[Bliss]

Originally Posted by G_Fish240

well in english if a word has two vowels next to each other you put the empahsise on the last one, so I would say "tine"

no, actually, the "rule" (although its not followed all that often) is you just say the hard sound of the first vowel. but like i said, its rarely ever followed anyway.

[s14falcon]

i before e, except after c, or when sounding like "A", as in nEIghbor and wEIgh. (and tEIn)