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jaygray91 piefed.zip ![]() jaygray91@piefed.zip Joined: 2026-07-17 |
Her-me-own
Damn, I've gaslit myself with the movie pronunciation that I forgot how high school me would've pronounced. Maybe back then I was just giddy to see a book I loved reading on the silver screen. |
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Marzanna scribe.disroot.org Marzanna@scribe.disroot.org Joined: 2025-02-15 |
Recently read a book about chernobyl, and this was at least 50% of the Russian names for me
Poles: Hold my wódka |
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ForeverComical lemmy.ca UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca Joined: 2023-06-18 |
I'm French Canadian and we used to read Archie as a bathroom rag and I'd rather not say how I pronounce Jughead and Weatherbee even still to this day. |
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bob_lemon feddit.org bob_lemon@feddit.org Joined: 2024-06-28 |
Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor
You're just an airsick lowlander |
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decolo piefed.social decolo@piefed.social Joined: 2026-06-29 |
I'm French Canadian and we used to read Archie as a bathroom rag and I'd rather not say how I pronounce Jughead and Weatherbee even still to this day. On another note I remember being happily surprised Drizzt had a cameo in the original Baldur's Gate ii game. My friend said you could scum save and roll stealing his very powerful swords. Never took the time to do it though (wasn't a thief).
zhu'khei? I can't even speculate on Weatherbee haha. |
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kolmaskommentoija sopuli.xyz ![]() kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz Joined: 2026-06-14 |
No such problems, when your native language uses phonetic alphabet! Is the pronounciation like the author intended then? Likely not, but you can still pronounce every word, without having to think. |
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j_overgrens feddit.nl j_overgrens@feddit.nl Joined: 2023-06-11 |
Poles: Hold my wódka
Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz |
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belochka lemmy.world belochka@lemmy.world Joined: 2026-04-28 |
Borsk Fey'lya Ysalimir Mitth'raw'nuruodo Timothy Zahn has Lucas's flair for naming. But he really doesn't give a damn if you can say it out loud or not. At least he's self aware enough that the last one is canonically unpronounceable to most beings of other species.
You know, I sometimes forget I'm not the last of SW EU fans living. |
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belochka lemmy.world belochka@lemmy.world Joined: 2026-04-28 |
He had to be localized with "r" and "zz" interchanged in Russian due to "drist" root being related to diarrhea. (But not unpronounceable) |
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Hupf feddit.org ![]() Hupf@feddit.org Joined: 2024-07-24 |
https://xkcd.com/483/ |
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DudleyMason lemmy.ml DudleyMason@lemmy.ml Joined: 2026-03-19 |
You know, I sometimes forget I'm not the last of SW EU fans living.
There are dozens of us! Dozens! |
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Twig sopuli.xyz ![]() Twig@sopuli.xyz Joined: 2023-06-01 |
Harkonnen? |
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kazerniel quokk.au ![]() kazerniel@quokk.au Joined: 2026-10-18 |
The worst is when you read a book or series when you're young and pronounce it in your mind one way. Then they make a movie or something and it's pronounced very different, and you end up just staying mad about it every time you hear the other version.
I was like this with 'aes sedai' in Wheel of Time. Apparently the 'aes' is meant to be pronounced as "eyez", but for me it's "ace" 🤷 |
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kazerniel quokk.au ![]() kazerniel@quokk.au Joined: 2026-10-18 |
I feel like the author just misspelled Ewgene trying to make it a fantasy version of Eugene.
Apparently her name came from Guinevere from the legends of King Arthur (also al'Thor = Arthur) |
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kazerniel quokk.au ![]() kazerniel@quokk.au Joined: 2026-10-18 |
Is that Rock?
yea |
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kazerniel quokk.au ![]() kazerniel@quokk.au Joined: 2026-10-18 |
No such problems, when your native language uses phonetic alphabet! Is the pronounciation like the author intended then? Likely not, but you can still pronounce every word, without having to think.
haha I'm the same with Hungarian :) Finno-Ugric high five! |
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GalacticGrapefruit lemmy.world GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world Joined: 2025-01-30 |
I find this weirdly sad. I always tried to understand the name of the character and how it may be pronounced (I'm seriously going to include a glossary with IPA for all proper nouns if I ever produce anything for real publication). To me it's a part of the world-building and I almost recoil at just replacing it with nonsense.
I really appreciated Christopher Paolini including dictionaries in the backs of his books. |
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Colloidal programming.dev Colloidal@programming.dev Joined: 2025-02-26 |
Let go of ma buddy Drizzle Fo'Shizzle! |
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belochka lemmy.world belochka@lemmy.world Joined: 2026-04-28 |
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
(said with six upvotes over the root comment) (there are some) |
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