Comment on How do you pronounce a name you haven't heard?

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  There are some old interviews with George RR Martin where people ask him about various characters, and GRRM would adjust his pronounciation to match the person asking the question. So he’s pronouncing names differently in different interviews depending on how others pronounce them. I wonder if it is to make the other person comfortable, or if he just doesn’t have a canon pronounciation.

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• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I think it’s because writers take care to make the pronunciation guessable form the spelling. English is infamous for it’s very inconsistent writing rules, however there are “rules”. More like heuristics, but usually it’s possible to write a word in such a way that others can guess the pronunciation, unless that specific word already has an accepted official spelling that is different.

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  • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    And then you have Terry Pratchett who gave us Mister Teatime.

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  With final fantasy there was chocobo and tidus.

  Cho-co-bo vs Choc-o-bo Tee-dus vs Tide-us

  We have officials for both since but also recently FFXVI decided that chocobo was now the chocolate variant but only for that game.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Tidus

    But… FFX has voice acting 🤨

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Tidus’ name is never spoke ingame. It has in future games since, but initially it wasn’t obvious in how to pronounce it

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    • justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah, but since you can change his name they never say it in any dialogue, which has left the debate to the internet.

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