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« Reply #30 on: January 09, 2006, 11:59:08 pm »
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Originally posted by Karyuu
Kah-ree-you, not Carry-you. I hate it when people mess up like that ;)

Seems like I nearly messed it up, I always pronounced your name like \"car-you\" (without a recognizable pause between the syllables). ;) That seemed to be the easiest and shortest way to pronounce it.


But well, I\'m sure you want to know how my name is prononced. Frankly, I never really thought about it, as long as the spelling is correct. So I guess it\'s something like:

Tho-ro-na-dor

i.e. the first syllable like in \"though\", the second like the beginning of \"road\", third one like \"nah\" (sometimes also a bit like \"ney\", but don\'t mess it up ;)), and the last one like the word \"door\".
That\'s it, basically. If that is to difficult, just say \"Thor\", the short form of my name which some people in my guild like to use, mainly because they are unsure how to spell the rest of it. :P

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« Reply #31 on: January 09, 2006, 11:59:18 pm »
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Originally posted by Bereror
My current conclusion is that people tend to pronounce their fantasy game names in a way how they would be pronounced in Latin / German / Scandinavian languages :)

I would rather say they pronoune it the way how they do it in their native language, but that is only my personal opinion. Maybe because i don\'t think of my name being pronounced in Latin / German / Scandinavian =P

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*thinks... says it a few times*
so yours is: nick-o-dem-us?

Very close. If there comes about syllabizing i would ni-ko-de-mus. You can gues english isn\'t my native ;) and i don\'t know much about writing the way how you pronounce.
Dylia would be just Dy-lia for me ;)
Hehe, and for me \"y\' is vowel what I know in eglish isn\'t :P Correct me if i messed somethink.



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« Reply #32 on: January 10, 2006, 12:32:53 am »
Sep-er-ot

er as in thinking errr and ot like out of hot


also dee-lie-la :G

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« Reply #33 on: January 10, 2006, 12:35:37 am »
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Originally posted by seperot
Sep-er-ot

er as in thinking errr and ot like out of hot


also dee-lie-la :G



:D  I like that pronouncing better... it was the way I used to say it till everyone told me I was wrong >.>

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Yay for Rilar..... see Drey I do make sense you are the crazy one :P
« Last Edit: January 10, 2006, 12:38:51 am by Dylia »

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« Reply #34 on: January 10, 2006, 12:37:26 am »
Well, I sometimes also hear an \"l\" in Dylia when shes pronouncing it.. like De-lie-la

I am pronouncing Rilar like Ri (like in risk)-lar (with an \"a\" like in \"shall\")...
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« Reply #35 on: January 10, 2006, 12:57:23 am »
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Reminds me on \"Alannah Myles - Black Velvet\"...


Er... yeah, I had to download it to remember it  :P


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@LigH: now every time I see Alhana I will hear \"Black Velvet\"  XD


Ah crap, And I wanted Blackbullet by Kidney Thieves as my theme.

/me stamps her feet.


@Dylia: I remember saying to you on skype how I thought your name went.

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« Reply #36 on: January 10, 2006, 01:05:32 am »
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Originally posted by Alhana

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Originally posted by Dylia
@LigH: now every time I see Alhana I will hear \"Black Velvet\"  XD


Ah crap, And I wanted Blackbullet by Kidney Thieves as my theme.

/me stamps her feet.


@Dylia: I remember saying to you on skype how I thought your name went.


Dylia laughs evily then coughs \"erm... no I will hear black velvet.... and I forgot how you said my name cause we only talked once..\" >.> then returns to being good  :)
« Last Edit: January 10, 2006, 01:10:25 am by Dylia »

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« Reply #37 on: January 10, 2006, 01:20:58 am »
This is how I pronounce Sangwa:

Sang-wa

Sang, with a closed \"a.\"
Wa as in \"war.\"

Oh? Some of you actually thought it was pronounce Go-d?
Go, with an open O
And D as in Dominator
How kind. :P
« Last Edit: January 10, 2006, 01:33:05 am by Sangwa »
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« Reply #38 on: January 10, 2006, 01:37:00 am »
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Oh? Some of you actually thought it was pronounce Go-d?

No, must be a rumour, nothing else. :P
(I assume someone whose name is pronounced like Sang-wa actually gave currency to this rumour. ;))

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« Reply #39 on: January 10, 2006, 02:19:22 am »
Haha, you don\'t know how many odd pronunciations I get from \"Jjairr\"...

So, Jjairr. First off, the extra J and R do nothing. Nothing at all! Except add fun fancy decoration. I mean, Jjairr is just so much kewler lookin\' than Jair. Seriously.

One syllable. Hard J. Rhymes with \"hair\", \"stare\", \"lair\", and \"glare\".

Jjairr! \\O/


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« Reply #40 on: January 10, 2006, 03:20:13 am »
Eee-colem

That\'s gota be the easiest one to say. I could probably take away the two ee\'s and leave it as it is spelt and it would still make sense.

As for Dyila, Dee-la
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« Reply #41 on: January 10, 2006, 03:59:25 am »
My name was intended to be pronounced Gin-keen\' with the emphasis on the \"keen\" part so that it drew aout a bit.

But Dylia, which incidentally is pronounced dial\' - ya where I come from and so she shall so be called in Skype or wherever   forever, calls me jing\'-kin as in rhymes with drinkin\'.    So I have accepted that as the true pronunciation of my name.

Dial\'-ya and Jing\'-kin   forever

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« Last Edit: January 10, 2006, 04:02:53 am by Jinkeen »

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« Reply #42 on: January 10, 2006, 04:05:21 am »
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My name was intended to be pronounced Gin-keen\' with the emphasis on the \"keen\" part so that it drew aout a bit.

But Dylia, which incidentally is pronounced dial\' - ya where I come from and so she shall so be called in Skype or wherever   forever, calls me jing\'-kin as in rhymes with drinkin\'.    So I have accepted that as the true pronunciation of my name.

Dial\'-ya and Jing\'-kin   forever

*50th post woohoo


>:| noooooo... I say Jin-ken *thinks bah men never listen*
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« Reply #43 on: January 10, 2006, 05:17:22 am »
My name is pathetically easy to pronounce.

 Ci-Ris Arc-Um.
« Last Edit: January 10, 2006, 05:17:45 am by Cyrus Arckum »

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« Reply #44 on: January 10, 2006, 06:35:27 am »
Kha-door-is

Kha...as in khan

Door as in that thing you keep walking into by accident

and is as in \"Cadoras is god\"



....Most just call me GodAlmighty :D

God-all-might-ee

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<Jeraphon>oh khado
<Jeraphon>you so khrazy

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