What is the response phrase to ごちそうさまでした?

Please help resolve this debate: pronunciation of "Hisaishi"

he-sa-ee-she or he-say-she?

do you happen to have the kanji compound?

I think it's easier to guess where the "break" in the word is based on the kanji

do you mean 被災者（ひさいしゃ）, as in "victim of a disaster"?

if so..."hi" as in "*hi*nt", "sa" as in "*si*gn", "i" as in "*i*gloo", "sha" as in "*shi*ne"

This just reminds me of how retarded English pronunciation/spelling is.

Answering my own question. お粗末さまでした is the response to ごちそうさまでした

@Aerovistae If you are asking about person’s name (such as Joe Hisaishi), it is “he-sa-ee-she.” Letter “a” in romaji (the English spelling of Japanese words) is always pronounced as “a” and does not change its pronunciation depending on another vowel which follows it.

is there a case where it is pronounced differently?

e.g. 久居市　is apparently a town name, is this pronounced differently?

I'm getting a feeling from the chat that I may be pretty ignorant of pronunciation differences in words that have the same kana readings, except for a few text book examples/accent like 橋・箸

Does the term "semantically correct" really make any sense?

"semantically incorrect" seems equivalent to "nonsensical", and "semantically correct" seems equivalent to "understandable". But "understandability" is not a binary quality.

@Mechanicalsnail hmm, what do you mean? I mean if I learn a new word, then see that same word within 24 hours, I'm gonna write down where I learned it in the first place, then were I saw it again

@jlptn1 The reason I wrote “If you are asking about person’s name” was because cypher answered the case where it is a typo for hisaisha (被災者) and because I did not realize the possibility of 久居市 at all (oops). 久居市 is also “he-sa-ee-she.” The accents (pitches) are different at least in the Tokyo dialect: 久石 (person’s name) is LHLL and 久居市 is LHHL, where L means low and H means high.

@silvermaple Just being silly. If you count the log as one of the two times you see it, then you should log a word iff you're going to log it.

@jkerian Most certainly it is semantically correct.

@Mechanicalsnail haha

@Mechanicalsnail It seems like it's a non-binary quality to me

@TsuyoshiIto In IPA: /hisáisi/ [çì.sá.ì.ɕì] vs. /hisaísi/ [çì.sā.í.ɕì].

@jkerian That doesn't mean it's ill-defined. That's the sorites fallacy.

@Mechanicalsnail Hmm... I'm not arguing it's completely wrong, just inappropriate

I might be misunderstanding "semantics" here... "semantic correctness" seems to have a fair bit of fuzziness, just depending on the audience

@jkerian: Incidentally, do you know why your name's in italics?

probably because I'm the room mod

Okay, perhaps this is the problem. What is the standard for "semantic correctness"?

Isn't it inherently subjective?

@Mechanicalsnail oh, lol :)

hey, guess what, you can't google search for something on netflix...it's so hard to be lazy...I have such first world problems