Comments on: In which voice chat leads to revelations

By: Tesh

Tesh — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:08:12 +0000

See, that’s another of those “vowels have stupid rules” words. The “u” used without any accompanying vowels should be pronounced the same way in both places. We just don’t expect the two to have different sounds in that usage.

At some point, I really have to wonder how much of it is just bad writing that is ignorant of common usage (“let’s do a fantasy name by jamming on the keyboard”), and how much of is it just the stupidity of common usage. *shrug*

By: Kiryn

Kiryn — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:51:06 +0000

Oh yeah, and how we discovered at this year’s Blizzcon that Uldum is apparently meant to be pronounced as Uldoom, when I and everyone else I knew had been pronouncing it Ul-dumb.

Next we’re going to find out that we should have been pronouncing Ulduman as Ul-DOOM-on this whole time, and nobody ever told us!

By: Tesh

Tesh — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:51:41 +0000

I have yet to hear anyone add an “r” into the Azerothian equivalent of “Washington”. That makes me happy. (I can understand different vowel pronunciations since there aren’t any real rules to them, and even dropping letters since we’ve coopted several French words, but *adding* letters that *aren’t there* always hits my nerve centers like fingernails on a chalkboard. It’s *not* “Warshington”, people.)

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By: Uzi

Uzi — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:43:47 +0000

In my mind the most alarming thing can be the variance between your mental picture of someone and their actual voice.

Que jokes about the cute pigtailed Gnome having a deep baritone and manly regional accent ‘Ey up lad’

Or worse the guild main tank sounding like a choirboy…still just as competent but somehow not as reassuring as …say Ciderhelm (and thats a whole nother thread right there)

By: Dblade

Dblade — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:38:20 +0000

I never did vent, since I played FFXI on PS2 mostly. That game had tongue twisters, Any mithra NPC had names like Meh Chotsileko or something, and I don’t think anyone agreed on how to pronounce they apostrophe names like Vana’Diel, Kamn’Laut or ix’Aern.

TOR will probably follow The KOTOR trend and make most of the characters speak with upper-class british accents except for the rough and tumble ones like smugglers and bounty hunters.

By: RF

RF — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:25:27 +0000

Don’t forget Mana
Everyone sees the word in writing, but they never pronounce it correctly.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:08:53 +0000

Don’t get me started on Polish last names. So many letters, so few actually sounded out. . . .

By: Ysharros

Ysharros — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:25:10 +0000

KAH-THOO-LOO

Easy. I’m off to sacrifice something to a Great Old One. Can’t hurt.

Then I’m going to practice pronouncing R’lyeh.

By: Ysharros

Ysharros — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:22:25 +0000

Heehee.

This whole post is win, but “buffet” pronounced as “boofay” (when it’s about being air-smacked) is pretty funny.