Sheeeeeyyyyman almost every guild I've been in EU pronounces it like that xD
Sheeeeeyyyyman almost every guild I've been in EU pronounces it like that xD
Not just a WoW word, but I always pronounce "reagent" like "regent". Developed early on as healing officer checking if people had them, was simply easier to leave out a syllable. Thankfully they just took that shit out of the game now for the most part.
That's your opinion...
And as for the discussion on C'thun and C'thulhu:
Lovecraft transcribed the pronunciation of Cthulhu as "Khlûl'-hloo" (IPA: [ˈχɬʊl.ɬuː] ?). S. T. Joshi points out, however, that Lovecraft gave several differing pronunciations on different occasions. According to Lovecraft, this is merely the closest that the human vocal apparatus can come to reproducing the syllables of an alien language.
That is, the reason it's so hard to pronounce is because it is an alien name, not meant for the tongue of humans.
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"In life, I was raised to hate the undead. Trained to destroy them. When I became Forsaken, I hated myself most of all. But now I see it is the Alliance that fosters this malice. The human kingdoms shun their former brothers and sisters because we remind them what's lurking beneath the facade of flesh. It's time to end their cycle of hatred. The Alliance deserves to fall." - Lilian Voss
mmm... alice razor (alysrazor) is supposed to be alysra-zor
also used to call vashj vaj ....but more because guildies did and for some reason we thought it was funny...
also used to say meelee instead of mey leh (melee) or is it meh lee, think that one just depends on where you're from.
Still I cry, tears like pouring rain, Innocent is my lurid pain.
Tir-is-fal Glades/Batling
My pronunciation: "Trist-fal Glades/Batling"
I only started saying this correctly about 3 days ago when putting the Tirisfal Batling on the AH, I've no idea where I invented the extra 't' from, or why I missed the 'i' at the beginning all this time.
Also, classic ones I say that are probably just dialectically different:
Melee - "MEY-LEY"
Shaman - "SHA-man"
For the longest time I always pronounced reagent as "reejent" until I heard a NPC say it as "re-agent". A long time ago when I first started playing on a trial account in 2006 I pronounced Paladin as "pa-laydin" until my friend made fun of me and said it the correct way. Those are the only ones I can think of at the moment, I'm sure there are others but I don't feel like using my brain.
Edit: oh yeah I'm still not sure how to correctly pronounce Shaman. I always pronounced it as "SHA-min" but in other games I hear them say it as "SHAY-min". So I still pronounce Shaman with the "SHA".
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- "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black" - Jo Bodin, BLM supporter
- "I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun. The kids used to come up and reach in the pool & rub my leg down so it was straight & watch the hair come back up again. So I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap, and I love kids jumping on my lap...” - Pedo Joe
my buddies and i would be on vent getting drunk and doing random bgs and after i killed someone, i /cackle at their dead body and over vent one time, i said "LOL I JUST MECHANICALLY LAUGHED AT THEM!!!" my buds were like, you laughed mechanically?! like ah-a-ah-a-ah-a-ah-a?! oh-ah-oh-ah-oh-ah-oh-ah?! you mean MANIACALLY!?!?
pretty embarrassing moment for me but something ill always remember. not sure why i always read it as mechanically...
It's not an opinion. Language is a science, and science isn't an opinion. It can, and should be debated, of course. It will be revised when it's found to be incorrect, but it's never an opinion.
C'Thun's name is clearly a homage to Cthulhu (which isn't spelled with an apostrophe by the way). This much is obvious, and it would be pointless to claim otherwise. Thus, we can imagine C'Thun is also pronounced similarly to Cthulhu. What Lovecraft might have said about how Cthulhu is supposed to be pronounced is pretty much irrelevant, since the pronunciation of the homage is obviously based on the generally adopted pronunciation of the name Cthulhu. That is, when reading the text as English, "kth-oo-loo".
Hence you can basically think of the "Cth" in Cthulhu and the "C'Th" in C'Thun as the same single syllable "kth".
Thus, C'Thun is pronounced as "kth-oon".
It's not pronounced "seethune", it's not pronouced "kaythune" or "kathune". The first syllable has no vowels.
Thelsamar - Thesselmar
Tranquillien - Tranquillin
Clearly I needed glasses at the time.
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"In life, I was raised to hate the undead. Trained to destroy them. When I became Forsaken, I hated myself most of all. But now I see it is the Alliance that fosters this malice. The human kingdoms shun their former brothers and sisters because we remind them what's lurking beneath the facade of flesh. It's time to end their cycle of hatred. The Alliance deserves to fall." - Lilian Voss
Drah-eh-ney
The first time I heard Dreh-nay I was like wtf!
:P
Wait wait what.
Alyrazor... has an S in it! Alysrazor. It's just wrong.
Aly-razor... no more
Oh yeah, dreneigh/drayney too. Dran-eye is the proper term IIRC.
I know a guy who pronounces "subtlety" like "soob-taely". So hilarious.
I always thought acolyte was spelled (therefore pronounced) acoylte.