FFXI Pronunciation (warning: advanced!)

[Therin]

Protip: If people can't spell correctly, they probably can't pronounce correctly. So, asking "the FFXI public" how to pronounce anything in-game is an exercise in futility.

[Starr]

thun-dah-gah

fir-ah-gah

stone-ga

so-ja

[Deimos]

Auto-Translator: In-Depth - BGWiki

This is an auto-trans guide my wife wrote, but it does have all of the japanese translations like have been posted here already. While we all do have our own way of saying some zones, this does break it down pretty well. Obviously without the emphasis, but strange zone names like Pso'Xja or Oztroja can be cleared up

Oh nice, that pretty much puts me out of the job I offered above. Though if anyone's curious about the pronunciation of things that aren't in auto-translate, like some gear names, just post and I'll do those for you. On that note, for Lilswitche, it's "Gen-bu".

There are a few things that you should note if you're going to use that auto-translate guide to look some pronunciations up though, the English "translation" of the Japanese doesn't always represent the way it would actually be pronounced.

When the letter "i" is written, that should always be pronounced as "ee". For example, the romanization of the Japanese spelling of Blizzard comes out as "burizado". That's not pronounced the way it looks, it'd be pronounced "bureezad".

When you see a vowel twice in a row, that doesn't change the pronounciation the way it would in English. "ee" and "oo" aren't pronounced the way they look, they're just longer "eh" and "oh" sounds. For example, a hypothetical japanese word "roon" isn't pronounced "rune", it'd be pronounced "rowne". Combined with the above rule about "i", Erase => "ireesu", but is actually pronounced like "eerehhs".

[akoru]

Bostaunieux Oubliette

Bost-oh-knee-ooh Ooh-blee-eht

[The_OG_Nelta]

GIANT MANTLE. HOMAN .

[The Q]

Cray-ken or Crack-in?

[Cantih]

Everyone always runs screaming when I bring these up.

Aern
Euvhi
Hpemde
Phuabo
Xzomit
Yovra
Ghrah
Zdei

[richardd]

Everyone always runs screaming when I bring these up.


Hpemde

me and dankster used to call those HMPH!- medes lol

i couldnt pronounce those either. wow i suck

[Octavious]

how about...Teleport-Vahzl? Vah-zull ? Vaaz-ull ? I'm having flashbacks to when my friends and I would use Microsoft Sam on Ventrilo to see how the Software Voice pronounced the words, lol.

[Aemora]

Bastok is pronounced "Bas-toe", because in the intro video the voice over actually says the word <.<

[Wrathbone]

For a short time, I was on vent with a guy who, for reasons beyond me, pronounced Gjallarhorn "gu-jallarhorn". I tried like holy hell to get him to try to say "Bostaunieux Oubliette".

Lol.

Guhjallarhorn.

[Cantih]

me and dankster used to call those HMPH!- medes lol

you see, I go h-PEM-day

[Pharaun]

Aern - reraising fuckers
Euvhi - Flowers
Hpemde - Goldfish
Phuabo - Shark
Xzomit - Squid
Yovra - ahmahgawd UFO aggro
Ghrah - shapeshifters
Zdei - pots

I thought everyone knew this though

[Kipling]

I find that hearing people say "bew-dux" for Beadeaux makes me cringe a little.

Rich: my favorite dank word was "tang tang". And the fact that he could never say my name. And just called me "Urururururururu"

[Chen]

Aern - reraising fuckers
Euvhi - Flowers
Hpemde - Goldfish
Phuabo - Shark
Xzomit - Squid
Yovra - ahmahgawd UFO aggro
Ghrah - shapeshifters
Zdei - pots

I thought everyone knew this though

lol ^
for me, in order
ern/urn
ee-you-vee
hempf ( i'm sure this one is wrong)
faa-boo
zom-it
you've -ra
grah
pots

[Farseer]

Cray-ken or Crack-in?

Kraken (pronounced /ˈkreɪkən/ or /ˈkrɑːkən/)[1] are legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size, said to have dwelt off the coasts of Norway and Iceland.

Kra:ken!

[Spider-Dan]

HOMAN .

I want to punch whoever is responsible for this.

How the f*ck did "homan" get so widespread? Why would anyone, ever, pronounce it with an N? There's no N anywhere near it! And it's not like homan is a real word or anything.

[Spider-Dan]

Kraken (pronounced /ˈkreɪkən/ or /ˈkrɑːkən/)[1] are legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size, said to have dwelt off the coasts of Norway and Iceland.

Kra:ken!

Or the other one.

Basically, either one is fine.

[Aable]

As an idea, why don't we have a pronounce-off, have everyone record their take, host it somewhere as an audio-file, and set up a poll with the top ones and award a title for the winner?

[Talint]

Kirin's Osode: oh-so-day (not oh-soad)
Mijin Gakure: ga-ku-ray (not gak-urrrrrrrrr)
Suzaku's Sune-ate: sue-knee-a-tay (not soon-ate)

There's others, but the mispronunciations of these really annoy me.