Re: Profile Addition: Pronunciation 08/02/2009 10:02 AM CDT
There is no noun in Pronunciation.

Sorry, just had to. Anyway, one of my favorite things about Simucon was asking the players how they pronounced their character's names. It was fun in a super-geek kind of way.

> If I have questions pronouncing something my mind just defaults to an Italian like pronunciation(happens when you learn another language).

Spanish and portuguese for me. I always say oo-Koo and hard C for the Cael's in my head.

~Hunter Hanryu (Hahn-ree-oo, as in Han dynasty or Handel the composer)
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Re: Profile Addition: Pronunciation 08/03/2009 02:33 AM CDT
<<~Hunter Hanryu (Hahn-ree-oo, as in Han dynasty or Handel the composer)

No like Han Solo. We're nerds remember, we don't need any of those classy examples.

Nikpack

The gods are jerks. No, really.
-Armifer
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Re: Profile Addition: Pronunciation 08/03/2009 06:19 AM CDT
mmm, how does pronunciation ever come up unless you are talking in person?
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Re: Profile Addition: Pronunciation 08/03/2009 12:17 PM CDT
I've been in a few situations where the pronunciation of peoples names have come up IG. Plus it'd just be nice to know? Nothing wrong with that. =]
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Re: Profile Addition: Pronunciation 08/03/2009 04:33 PM CDT
>mmm, how does pronunciation ever come up unless you are talking in person?

Some of us chat on vent and other stuff, and it comes up. Or reuse our names in other games (like wow, eve, etc), where vent is more common, so comes up over there. Can be interesting when 4 different people say it 4 different ways.
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Re: Profile Addition: Pronunciation 08/03/2009 06:10 PM CDT
Actually, I would support this.

Some people like to mangle words for accents, and it helps to know how to say a name right, so you can get it wrong consistently.



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Re: Profile Addition: Pronunciation 08/03/2009 06:15 PM CDT
>>Can be interesting when 4 different people say it 4 different ways.

It happens.

Friend of mine held a poll on AIM with a couple of her buddies. Asked them how they pronounced her character name. Came out of that with about 5 different pronunciations. Turns out I was pronouncing her name wrong. Heh. Ehh well.

EDIT: Wanted to reply and say Caraamon is very right about that, too.

Also said without instead of with up there so fixed. >.>;
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