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Kruppe: A Pronunciation Guide Lil' help over here

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Posted 17 June 2012 - 06:06 AM

Like this one? http://www.macmillan.../british/tomato
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Posted 17 June 2012 - 09:25 AM

Yep, it's _always_ to-mah-toe in British English.
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Posted 21 June 2012 - 03:40 PM

BAR-gast - Hihi in german that means pretty much that they're guests of a bar.
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Posted 22 June 2012 - 04:11 AM

Official pronunciations as per Erikson:

Malazan: Muh-LA(the "a" sounding like the a in "dad" or "mad")-zin

Tiste is "tist".

Edur is "eh-dur"

Jaghut: Silent 'h', pronounced Ja-goot with stress on the "Ja", with word falling off on completion (meaning t is not stressed whatsoever, but not quite silent)

K'Chain Che'Malle: K as in the letter, chain is obviously the same, Che as in Cheh, and Malle as in Hal.
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Posted 22 June 2012 - 11:54 PM

K as in the letter, as in the name of the letter? KAY chain? that can't be right. i thought it was just a hard K sound, then the glottal stop. kuh-chain.
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Posted 23 June 2012 - 03:25 AM

You're absolutely correct, my mistake when I typed that last night.
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Posted 23 June 2012 - 03:50 AM

It's O-Kuh, everybody makes mistakes.
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 04:03 AM

I ALSO have all my own pronunciations for things. But I won't bore you with them. Or mention that they are similar to Steel General's.
I will tell you my brother read all of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reading the main character 'Ford Prefect' as 'Ford Perfect' - which kinda changes your perception of who the guy is. He was not old enough or British enough to know what a Ford brand 'Prefect' car was. Much more interesting story than my pronunciations.

*cough* Kroop, teest, Se-goo-lah, on-dee, ih-mass, bar-gast, jag-ut, Ma-LAY-zan */cough*
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 04:55 AM

 Lazar, on 13 August 2009 - 03:03 PM, said:

My younger brother recently began to read this epic saga that unites us all (he loved it), but something wierd happened and he pronounces some of the words in a contrary fashion to me. I was wondering if anybody could let me know how they read some of the words from the books?

KRUPPE
My brother pronounces his name like crup
Whereas I've always heard it as something like Cru ·PAY (Krup é)

TISTE
I've always heard this one as Tist
· AY, but my brother just pronounces it Tist

TRYGALLE
I've always thought of it as Tri
· gal, but its probably wrong :S

ANDII
My bro says And · EE
As opposed to my: And · EYE

DASSEM
Da · SEEM or DASS · em?

Thanks to anyone who could answer, and sorry if this is in the wrong place :S



Kruppe, for me = Krup, but with a slight rolling of the R for dramatic effect, at least when Kruppe is referring to himself in the third person.

Tiste I say as somewhere between Teest and Tist.

Trygalle I pronounce as Tr'gall

Andii I say as Andee, though the "ee" is sort of rising in inflection and clipped off early.

Dassem... somewhere between DASS-em and DAWSS-em.
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