Author Topic: pronounciation (Read 2856 times)

Dorganath · « **Reply #20 on:** July 14, 2005, 03:55:00 PM »

That's true Talan, except in words like:

theme
prefix
recall

and so forth.

ZeroVega · « **Reply #21 on:** July 14, 2005, 03:55:00 PM »

Tathnolu = Tach-(like Bach)-no-loo
Tath = Ta-th

Talan Va'lash · « **Reply #22 on:** July 14, 2005, 03:57:00 PM »

Good point dorganath!

Man, english is a screwed up language... can I get just a bit of consistancy here! bah.

Edit: Acctually, thinking back to kindergarten... I think "re" is treated as its own sound, therefore getting around the one e=eh convention, as in prefix and recall... cant think of any reason for theme though.

Gulnyr · « **Reply #23 on:** July 14, 2005, 04:07:00 PM »

Theme ends with a silent E. A silent E signals that the previous vowel should be pronounced long rather than short. Thus theme is theem, not thehm.

Talan Va'lash · « **Reply #24 on:** July 14, 2005, 04:14:00 PM »

haHa! We're getting this language here figured out!

so, in light of this new information my previous pronunciations stand... Funny how we often intuitively know how the language works, but havent a clue why.

RomonaBlack · « **Reply #25 on:** July 14, 2005, 04:58:00 PM »

what about Dray-gar or Dray-ger...that's how I say it.

Reh-mee Zeh-fir

woot! to you Cel-gar!

Rayenoir · « **Reply #26 on:** July 14, 2005, 05:10:00 PM »

Rayenoir

Ray-no-wahr

(the name was made way back when I was still taking high school french)

Chuckles_McChuck · « **Reply #27 on:** July 14, 2005, 05:13:00 PM »

Lee-ah *chuckles then sees all the tomatoes flying his way* Gah!! Its only a little joke! *runs away*

Ayreon · « **Reply #28 on:** July 14, 2005, 08:02:00 PM »

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Rayenoir - 7/14/2005 5:10 PM

Rayenoir

Ray-no-wahr

(the name was made way back when I was still taking high school french)

...I was supsicious of a french pronuciation here, that's how I always thought of it, hehe.

teefal · « **Reply #29 on:** July 16, 2005, 04:59:00 PM »

drow: rhymes with plow, or rhymes with snow?

Marswipp · « **Reply #30 on:** July 16, 2005, 05:15:00 PM »

It rhymes better with "plow".

EdTheKet · « **Reply #31 on:** July 16, 2005, 05:25:00 PM »

or 'now'

LoganGrimnar · « **Reply #32 on:** July 16, 2005, 05:33:00 PM »

what about mannzoberranzan, i thank it is somthing like Man'zo'ber'an'zan or maby Manzo'berran'zan idk what you thank... and what about drizzt...is it like dits? but with an ar.. so drits? or maby drizzz'ta, bah.

Rayenoir · « **Reply #33 on:** July 16, 2005, 06:31:00 PM »

phonetically speaking, it wouldn't be "drits" unless the z's came after the t. As I read it, it's pronounced "drizz-it"

Jeff_K · « **Reply #34 on:** July 16, 2005, 07:41:00 PM »

"Drizzit" is what he is called by people who do not like him very much.
According to the BGII manual, it is said "drisst."

Diamondedge · « **Reply #35 on:** July 19, 2005, 12:44:00 PM »

Everybody is divided on this issue. Not even Salvatore is very clear. I think he says it goes either way.

In one of his anthologous books all encompasing a trilogy, he speaks about his wife trying to pronounce/spell his name.

"Drizz-it" she said.
"No, Drizzt" came my reply.

Or something like that.

I personally argue that it's pronounced Drizz-it.

Turor Sunderstone is pronounced: Ahem...

T-you-roar Sun-Dahr-Stoah-n

Jeff_K · « **Reply #36 on:** July 19, 2005, 02:51:00 PM »

I don't think it's "drizzit", because in the books, when people pronounce it that way, it's spelled that way.

Talan Va'lash · « **Reply #37 on:** July 19, 2005, 08:49:00 PM »

Its Drisst. In the introduction to one of the books he tells the story of how he came up with the idea for the character excerpt:

Salvatore: Drizzt Do'Urden of house Daermon Na'chezberenon, third house of Menzoberanzan.
Publishing Agent: ... Can you spell that?
Salvatore: Not a chance.
Publishing Agent: so... Drizzit?

He then goes back from the quote saying that he corrected her, for the first of the millions of times hes corrected people pronunciations since the books came out. He did not, however, provide a correct phonetic pronunciation, but he thouroughly implied that Drizzit was incorrect.

I believe it is Drisst or Drist (i think both those spellings sound the same anyway.)

And I believe that Menzoberanzan is Men-zo-bear-an-zan. In both of the last syllables the a's are pronounced as the "a" in "and", and bear as in the animal.

But... lets get back to Layo pronunciations.

Diamondedge · « **Reply #38 on:** July 19, 2005, 09:57:00 PM »

*thinks for a little while*

Aasimar : Ayahsimar.

A-ah-sehm-ahr. As in 'A as in the letter A, ah as in, say 'Ahhh', sehm as in... shaddup, and ahr as in Gy-AHRRRRRR'

I don't know why, it just seems right. Think it's a word originating from something non-D&Dish, but I'm sure that first A and that second A should both be pronounced.

Lesseee, what else...

Leanthar: I figure it's Lay-ahn-thahr.

What about 'Master Tom'?

Or... OOH! Good one is Druegar... I've always pronounced them 'Drew-egg-ahr'. You know. Drew, like Drew Carry, Egg, like, an egg, and Ahr, as in GY-AAAAHR'

And one that I'm willing to spill blood over...

Talan Valash... Valish... V'lash...

Tay-len Val-ish.

Okay, not really so much willing to spill blood over it, so much as... well, y'know. Figure out what it means. Er, how it's pronounced.

Okay, no more talkee for me. How do YOU pronounce your name, Tay-len?

Gulnyr · « **Reply #39 on:** July 19, 2005, 11:15:00 PM »

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Diamondedge - 7/20/2005 12:57 AM
Or... OOH! Good one is Druegar... I've always pronounced them 'Drew-egg-ahr'. You know. Drew, like Drew Carry, Egg, like, an egg, and Ahr, as in GY-AAAAHR'

It's not Druegar, it's Duergar. It comes from the same word that became 'Dwarf', so I'm guessing it would be pronounced DWEHR-ger or something like that. The first syllable sounds like dwell (except with an R sound instead of an L sound), and the last has a hard G, like the baby food Gerber.