Pronunciations

[Nauq]

So-Jah, Zomit ;/

with a soft J

[Hapernack]

Whenever I pronounce FFXI terms, I go to the JP kana since its so phonetic.

Qufim = Kyuu-fim
Uggalepih = oo-ga-le-pee
Pso'Xja = So-Jah
Ru'Avitau = R-oo-ah-vee-tah-oo

Since the names are originally in that format, it makes it pretty obvious what the correct pronunciation is.

[Hanyoko]

I dont know about you all but i pronounce "Xzomit" as "Squid"

[Pooky]

I dont know about you all but i pronounce "Xzomit" as "Squid"

I laughed way too hard at this.

on topic: Pso-ja

[Antithesis]

Once I pronounce something the way I do the first time its hard to make me switch to the real pronounciation unless you force me to. This is how I prounounce some things.

Pso'Xja ~> So - Ja - Va

Al' Taieu ~> All - tai - you

Xzmoit ~> Zoh - mit

Eald'narche ~> Eh - lehd - nark

Apmhau ~> Ahp - Ma - oow (like ow it hurts)

Regen ~> Reh - Gen (I use a hard G sound as in Go not as in En(gine) )

Konschtat Highlands ~> Con - shint - Highlands

Tonberry ~> Toon - berry

Diabolos ~> Dia - blos


I prounce alot shit of wrong lol but Ive just gotten too use to it I dont feel like changing the way I pronounce stuff.

[Kaslo]

I always found the pronunciation for Chocobo weird. Me and my brother have always pronounced it Coco-bo >.>

[Xanthe]

Whenever I pronounce FFXI terms, I go to the JP kana since its so phonetic.

Qufim = Kyuu-fim
Uggalepih = oo-ga-le-pee
Pso'Xja = So-Jah
Ru'Avitau = R-oo-ah-vee-tah-oo

Since the names are originally in that format, it makes it pretty obvious what the correct pronunciation is.

This.

[Cesaria]

Temple of Unpronounceable

Used to be in a shell briefly with people who called Seriyu ...Sea-Raeye-You which threw me off a bit.

[Fogo]

Because I'm somewhat of a minor linguist (fluent in portuguese, semi fluent spanish, used to know a lot of french, dabbled in italian, know a lot of latin, but also experimented in oriental and mideastern pronunciations as well), I tend to pronounce the words as close to how i might guess they'd have been pronounced in that language. A lot of names in the game that have to do with san d'oria for example are french (sauromugue for instance).

Pso'xja is one of those strange ones but i knew the j was going to be like a y sound (norse, india, etc), and the P is clearly silent, so it comes out as so'shya.

I have my biases too though, i don't like hard "i" without some sort of provoking vowel to accompany it, so something liek qufim is simply ku-fym (not the "feem" like a lot of people seem to like).

A fun one for me, pronounced from "olde" french, is Davoi, I like to pronounce it Da-vwey (the "oi" sound was pronounced similar to this back in the 1500's and earlier).

Another I think is interesting, is cape Teriggan. Personally i put the emphasis on the i, since it comes after 1 consonant and before 2, but I'm curious where others put the emphasis.

and xzomit is just zomit lol.

[Therin]

I really hate when people pronounce X's in words as "ecks" or "eggs".

[Izzy]

Teleport-ME
Teleport-MEAH

WHICH IS IT!?!?!??!

[Kaslo]

Teleport-ME
Teleport-MEAH

WHICH IS IT!?!?!??!

MEAH!

[Freysi]

Teleport - Mea rhymes with Stephen Rhea in my mind.

Also, my native language is Icelandic so I can give anyone who's interested the correct pronunciation of all the norse-based names, like Ægishjálmur.

[The Stig]

I really hate when people pronounce X's in words as "ecks" or "eggs".

http://www.mugenguild.com/forumx/Smileys/mfg/=%28.gif

[Lyramion]

Eggs-Knife!

[Tsuko_Asura]

Once I pronounce something the way I do the first time its hard to make me switch to the real pronounciation unless you force me to. This is how I prounounce some things.

Pso'Xja ~> So - Ja - Va

Al' Taieu ~> All - tai - you

Xzmoit ~> Zoh - mit

Eald'narche ~> Eh - lehd - nark

Apmhau ~> Ahp - Ma - oow (like ow it hurts)

Regen ~> Reh - Gen (I use a hard G sound as in Go not as in En(gine) )

Konschtat Highlands ~> Con - shint - Highlands

Tonberry ~> Toon - berry

Diabolos ~> Dia - blos


I prounce alot shit of wrong lol but Ive just gotten too use to it I dont feel like changing the way I pronounce stuff.

So - Ja

Al - Tay - Oo

Zom - It

Alld - Nar - Shay

Off - Mow

Ree - Gen

Con - Sh - Tat - Hi - Lands

Ton - Berry

Dia - Bowl - Ose


And just for fun,


Ga - Lar - Horn

[haelix]

So-Jah, Zomit ;/

with a soft J

^ This

[MayorBee]

Dear Square-Enix,

You're horrible attempt to make over accented proper nouns is an utter failure. Die.

Regards,

MayorBee.

[Gaea]

Japanese doesn't really have the complex blends and pronunciation rules we have. while its a nice guideline, i don't think you can really adapt their pronunciation to ours.

Anyways I say Pso'Xja as [SO shja] (a little soft on the j though. I've always given the "x" its less common "sh" sound)

I've also always said teleport ME uh, but I've actually heard people just say "Teleport-May" as if its one syllable. Nice way to interpret that.

Anyways, It's not the correct pronunciations that bother me. It's the absolutely wrong ones. Some of the ways I've heard this stuff pronounced is just gibberish. One of my favorites is "Beadeaux". I've heard this called "be uh de auks"? WTF? Didn't anyone take a french class?

au, aux, aulx, eau, and eaux
are pronounced as a clipped long o

Examples: beau /bo/, aux /o/, châteaux /sha to/, eau /o/

I think châteaux is just the most perfect example! So regardless of how you pronounce the first three letters, the last four letters are just "o". O O O O O O O O O O.

So yeah. Pronunciations that at least follow some sort of basic rules, sure. In those respects I think everyone is right until SE releases a formal pronunciation guide. But, gibberish, no thanks.

[Fogo]

irnoically the "sh" sound for an x is actually more common (not to mention the ONLY way to pronounce it in latin based languages). I think xylophones have just simply taken over the english language :3