Wiki Wednesday #367 - COY DE / コヨーテ探偵

 So the bank has a shortcut to Microsoft Edge and a webp file in it. I thought that was a silly thing, to just throw in a shortcut to Edge.

Wiki Wednesday #367 - COY DE / コヨーテ探偵

This UTAU brings up questions. Is COY DE an 11 year old coyote (almost elderly) or an 11 year old human child that looks like a coyote? How does a detective fold singing into their profession? These are questions that are perhaps better left to our imaginations. 

Who is COY DE?

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I literally have no idea how impressive it is to speak a second language poorly. I don't mean figuratively, I mean in a literal sense that I just don't know. 

Of course if I know someone from the Internet that isn't Japanese, they typically have a good grasp of English. There wouldn't be much communication going back and forth if they didn't. So I'm interacting with Europeans and Latin people who type just like your average American millennial. There's weird quirks I can pick up on, but nothing that would make an average American accuse them of being European or Latin. 

I'll be honest. Japanese people tell me my Japanese is great. Even when I struggle speaking it... I get told it's great. This means basically nothing as you can get told your Japanese is great by just speaking like a kindergartener. I am actually fully aware I am at a third grade level. That's... Something I guess. 

I was probably legitimately at a kindergarten level when I got a 3 on the AP Japanese test in 2013. I won't really get into it, but don't learn Japanese the way I did.

There's a part of me that just feels like I'm totally average. Maybe I'm even less capable than average at most things. Doesn't everyone have the basics down of at least one foreign language?

I'm fretting over it. There's no real reason to fret over it. At any point I can sit down and study. I don't need to be in a dark spot of 'I'm not good enough'. But not being good isn't the issue... It's just feeling like everyone else is more fluent than me in their second language when I don't actually interact with anyone in real life who even has a second language.

On a silly note, if you count elementary school classes and DuoLingo, Japanese is my third language. My second is actually Spanish. It definitely doesn't count. I can follow along when Americans speak butchered Spanish on 90 Day Fiance and I can tell you to not touch a turtle.

Anyway, my point was just that I have no idea if it's normal to be able to barely scrape by in a language. I don't even know what it means to barely scrape by in Japanese. 

Anyway, all of this whining made me open the app I use for WaniKani. I realized that it was out of date and totally broken.

I just had to download a new app! It was super easy to get it set up... And I have 1,500 reviews that I need to do.

Oh no!

Well... I think this personality wants to study Japanese. I've talked about that struggle of doing well then suddenly just not caring at all and refusing to study for months at a time. So much atrophies in that time. 

But oh well. They say that knowledge is power or whatever. But if I had better control over all of this, I would have beaten WaniKani by now.

How is COY DE's bank?

There are three links on his wiki page. One leads to an empty MediaFire folder. One is just two samples with no OTO. The final one is his Act 1, which does fully exist. However, there is no OTO file. There is no "wa".

So, there's a lot missing. If you don't care about the lyrics being correct, you could get some nice use out of this bank. But like I said... Entire consonants are missing so it's not even like you could get a complete bank through sample splicing. The voice is nice and fun beyond that issue.

Where can I download COY DE?

You can find the links on his wiki page.