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YouTube video or Podcast please

    • 1021 posts
    September 26, 2018 10:19 AM PDT

    Would someone please make a video or podcast of the pronunciation of the names and places that are listed in the lore?  I can't even read though the lore becuase my own brain doen't know what it's reading.  

    Was that a place, no that was a person that used to be a different person who used to be a place....I think....or maybe it's a curse word...idk.

     

    Anyway, if anyone is so inclinded I know many many people would appreciate even a decent attempt at the pronunciations of these words.  If anything, just so we're all on the same page.

    If this video podcast already exsists, I'll gladly follow a link.

     

    Thanks.

    • 2752 posts
    September 26, 2018 10:45 AM PDT

    Istuulamae said:

    Great work, Zorkon! I'll add my two cents on the matter -

    S'iolaen - see-o-lay-n (Correct, less syllables, See-o-lane. Also have a note below on this)

    Su' Roa - Sue-row-ah (Sue-row-uh)

    Atahaen - At-ah-hay-n (AH-ta-hayn)

    Esqaps - ass-kaps (Es-caps)

    Nothi - No-th- eye (Noth-ee)

    Maidyn - Mayden (May-den)

    Sorhiryth - Sor-here-ith (Pretty much, Soar-here-ith)

    Kiri - Kee-ree (Kear-ee)

    Molsth - Mol-sith (Mole-sith)

    Lyone - Lee-on (Lay-own OR Lee-own)

    When you're speaking some of these names they're of course more tight phonetically than we've broken them out here. For instance with Kiri, you'd say it pretty quickly and not belabor either syllable. Similarly with S'iolaen, it sounds more like "Syo-lane" because of how quickly you'd say it. 

    While this is fun and informative, I hope no one feels constrained by pronounciation guides or gets too hung up on getting them "right". Our real world has lots of pronunciation variances. I mispronounce names all the time, even in our world and with names I've created. I anxiously await the day someone corrects me in front of an audience of people. 

    Thanks for caring and sharing!

    https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/7088/how-do-you-pronounce/view/post_id/131480

    • 198 posts
    September 26, 2018 4:45 PM PDT

    This is good feedback, actually.  I think some of the names and locations are so weird and foreign it makes it hard to digest the story.  It does make for some thick, slow reading.  Not saying we need the names to be Bran Stark, but maybe not 'Rok'Tsolfyensire'.  It's actually a little distracting.  Maybe I should stick to Dr. Suess and pop-up books, I don't know.


    This post was edited by Parascol at September 26, 2018 4:46 PM PDT
    • 1120 posts
    September 27, 2018 8:33 AM PDT

    Maybe Its just my years and years of selling insurance,  but I've never once questioned how I thought a name was pronounced lol.

    Rock saul-fin-sire.

     

    • 1021 posts
    September 27, 2018 4:09 PM PDT

    Aevozul -  A voe zuel  or  eye foe zell  or something else

    Ginavi - Gen ah vey  or  Jenna vee

    Ithosbrun Hjilen - come on wtf

    Haethus-Kevgrejl - 

    Kaolyen - Kay o la ren  maybe?  but Istuulamae says fewer syllables so idk

    Rhy'Khafirosa - why

    Mount Hulthrr, Baaka'rrn and Ka'Druhorr - Is there an R Pat?

    • 1484 posts
    September 27, 2018 4:31 PM PDT

    Ok so let's go with Rok'Nhilthamos.

     

    I can't even remember that withouth using copy paste.

     

    Rok-Nil-ta-mos ? Sounds too easy, I'm sure there is a trick.

     

    Now I'll write it from my memory : Roknokthing. Here you go.