User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-69.140.237.23-20120219224852/@comment-70.54.115.173-20120220221107

Whoops, guess I got cocky. I didn't think anyone would know enough to correct me.

I generally agree with Taro. I actually knew about pinku being a loanword but it's the first thing that came to mind. I wasn't 100% on Furoggi. As we can see from the Japanese title of Monster Hunter, which transliterates to Monsutaa Hantaa, the possibility still exists for a U to be used to connect two consonants that cannot be connected by Japanese syllables. " I suspect that the "ogre" part of "Zinogre" is an imitation of how the ending "re" can be pronounced "er" in English. For example, centre is the same as center. So in that case it would be pronounced Zinoger, with a hard O, but I admit that a certain problem with that theory is that Jinouga ends with "ga" instead of "gaa".