Re: Ever pronounce AA words wrong?
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Re: Ever pronounce AA words wrong?
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Ash wrote:
D.A. McCoy wrote:
Didn't know "Metis" would be pronounced "Meetis". That's going to be hard to get used to.
cyanoscarlet wrote:
Metis. Is it "Meh-tis" - that is, short e (without the h sound!), or "Mee-tis" (long e)? I tend to lean more towards the short e pronunciation.
Both pronouncations are (sorta) correct, actually. "Meetis" (longated vowel) is how the name is pronounced in Modern Greek. In Ancient Greek however, the ῆ in Μῆτις was pronounced differently (Modern Greek basically threw a bunch of vowels together to simplify the language). in AG, the vowel is pronounced something like the 'e' in "men", or the "ai" in "fairy". I only know AG, so I always read the ῆ the 'old-fashioned' way.
Thank you! I'll stick to Metis with a short e, then. It sounds classier that way. :)
Re: Ever pronounce AA words wrong?
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The first time I played the series I was something like 14 and hadn't studied Japanese yet, so yep I said "coo-rain"... I also pronounced Godot as "Go-dot" but I said that to my mom and she was just like, uh, no. :p I've probably pronounced others wrong as well; when I'm not certain I tend to guess a phonetic pronunciation but with English that... tends to be wrong anyway.
Then we have that guy from PLvsPW -- you know the one I'm talking about. I tend to pronounce his name as "dft-ll-whatever."
Re: Ever pronounce AA words wrong?
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PhoenyxWrong wrote:
I keep screwing Mayas pronounciation - instead of saying it like MAYa i say it like mayA
What? What's the difference exactly?
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