Bill Mayhem.
How do you pronounce a name you haven't heard?
Submitted 1 week ago by s08nlql9@lemm.ee to memes@sopuli.xyz
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pomfritten@feddit.dk 1 week ago
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Bill mayor
willya@lemmyf.uk 1 week ago
How do you make a meme of a name that pisses off the bulk of the Lemmy audience?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
Bile Ma-Her
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week 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.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 week 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.
rbos@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
And then you have Terry Pratchett who gave us Mister Teatime.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
But… FFX has voice acting 🤨