Pronunciations

[Xanthe]

Kote = Koh-tey

[Secksi]

Aw, I would like to see that.

What's so hard about utsusemi?

ooh - tsuuu - seeehh meeeee

No I mean, someone wrote out what it sounds like in game, they were looking for the .dat I think, or something. Been a long time, I don't think the forums were even divided yet.

Found it, wasn't as far back as I thought, posted in Feb 06.

Thread

NHHHHHHHNHHHHHHNHHHHHHHHHZWSINGGGGGGGGGGBLUBLBULUB BLUBLU

i did my best to recreate the sound for you :[]

[Amarok!]

Having only recently started using TS2 with a bunch of American dyna ls members, I find it really funny how some of them say things totally different (I'm from the UK so there's gonna be a crapload they say different anyway).

The funniest ones have been:

Chocobo - Coke-a-bow
Dynamis - Die Namis (say both word separately), instead of Dynamite but with an S at the end.

But there are alot of zones I have gotten used to saying lazily, since I never wanted to spend the effort in working out how they should sound.

Windurst - Wind hurst (I hate thinking of it as Durst!)
San D'oria - San D Ora

[Kimkytaru]

All the sea stuff is very Aztec. Personally I say "Pso-Ja" with a very soft J, like in the word Beige. Xzomit, I say, "Zomit".

Pso-ja definitely and Izomit for the sea stuff.

[The Stig]

Some new ones...

Amanokakoyumi
Amanomurakumo
and ... Hacchonenbutsu Dangozashi

[Freysi]

The so called "semi-silent" letter is a bastard child (no offense meant) we still use in swedish that do comes from the old norse accent. Basically we don't say the letter out loud but change the pronounciation of the vowels following it as if we would have.

Basically the distinction in my last name Ljung and Jung are pronounced quite diffrently, and so would Jallar and Gjallar be.

Edit: Wouldn't the closest pronounciation of Gjall be GY-JALL instead of GYA-LL(ARR)?

The 'g' sound you're talking about has changed from the old norse. There were very few soft sounds in general. I know the sound in swedish, yeah it's semi-silent. But in the original pronunciation, it's quite hard, almost a 'K'.

Technically "Gjall" is one syllable, but it's got a lot of complicated sounds in it so I broke it up a bit. The correct phoenetics would be something like "gyall-ar-horn"

[millionsknives]

This always makes for good convo during irl LS meets.

[Nishida]

Boston Omelette. That is all.

[Aphelidia]

Keeping with the whole French theme, the name of the town is basically "San de Oria" before the rules of the language are employed. Because "Oria" begins with a vowel, de is shortened to d' in writing, but its pronunciation does not change.

So, it would be pronounced "SAHN-deh-OR-EEA." French is also a "fast language," so there shouldn't be any pauses in there, not even for the spaces.

Wrong.

in french, when a letter is replaced by a ' , like in San D'Oria, the "e" becomes silent.

in this case, it would be "San-Doh-Ree-Ah"

Assuming they based it off french pronunciation, that is, which seems likely.

[Seraph]

What about Dynamis? Huh? My boyfriend constantly says it like DIE-namis(hard DIE) and I say die-nuh-mis.

Literally just talked about this yesterday in my social shell.

It's Die-nam-is. Similiar to how one would pronounce 'dynamic' except with an 's' at the end instead of a 'c'.


Edit: Whoa, finished reading the posts, and someone gave the exact same example. Get out of my head.

[Hanyoko]

Dia = Die-ah or Dee-ah or ?

[Lexa]

The 'g' sound you're talking about has changed from the old norse. There were very few soft sounds in general. I know the sound in swedish, yeah it's semi-silent. But in the original pronunciation, it's quite hard, almost a 'K'.

Technically "Gjall" is one syllable, but it's got a lot of complicated sounds in it so I broke it up a bit. The correct phoenetics would be something like "gyall-ar-horn"

Norwegian. /

I vote for silent G. Hate to say it, but I'm with the Swede on this one.

[Freysi]

Norwegian. /

I vote for silent G. Hate to say it, but I'm with the Swede on this one.

/shrug I don't know what to tell you. Ask any linguist. Icelandic is the language that has changed the least since Old Norse, which is where all these names originated. We still have the same pronunciation, the only changes are in written language and vocabulary. Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian were all originally Old Norse, but have all gone through massive changes.

So if you want the true pronunciation, it's in Icelandic. If you want contemporary pronunciation, then I guess choose whichever language you want /shrug.

[Massimo]

Freysi is correct, as far as I'm concerned. I've always pronounced it "gyall-ar-horn".
Don't really see it being with a silent G, it just sounds too Swedish. >|


PS: Fuck yeah, Danish.

[Suteru]

Bostaunieux Oubliette = Om - lay - doo - fron - awj (soft j)

[Valyana]

Dynamis like Dynamite or Dynamo.

...or Dinosaur! Dino-Miss!

[Xanthe]

Some new ones...

Amanokakoyumi
Amanomurakumo
and ... Hacchonenbutsu Dangozashi

Amanokakoyumi - Ah mah no kah koh yoo mee
Amanomurakumo - Ah mah no moo rah koo moh
Hacchonenbutsu Dangozashi - Ha' (short "ah") cho nen boo tsoo Dahn goh zah shee

Seriously the direct from Japanese words are the easiest to pronounce. It's all a syllabary.

[Ruiner]

How do people pronounce "Einherjar?"

I say Iyn - Here - Ee - Yar.

[Freysi]

Ayn-hair-yar

With rolling r's of course

[Liquidedust]

Ayn-hair-yar

With rolling r's of course

In agreement

On the etmyology of Norse words however, I am actually in agreement with Freysi on Gjallarhorn for pronounciation now, I did the fault of looking at it from a germanic/east norse vocabular perspective and not and old norse etmyological perspective for which I am sorry (or west norse perspective if you so prefer).

I also blame the christian german monks for tainting swedish!