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How do you pronounce...well, anything Malazan discussion of names, will contain some spoilers of names from all book

#21 D'rek

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Posted 24 January 2010 - 04:26 AM

We never did come to an agreement on how to pronounce " Ay'edenan tek' velut !enan "...

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Posted 24 January 2010 - 05:51 AM

D, on 24 January 2010 - 04:26 AM, said:

We never did come to an agreement on how to pronounce " Ay'edenan tek' velut !enan "...

Carefully, with the emphasis on the "!enan".

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#23 Kurt Montandon

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Posted 24 January 2010 - 07:22 AM

Duiker = Doo-ee-ker," but somewhat slurred, rather than sounded out clearly.

Malazan = Mal (like Reynolds) - ah - zahn

Paran = Pear - ehn

Tavore = Tay - vohr (short "o")

Ruin = Roo - een (rather than roo - in)

Tehol = Tay - whole

Brys = Br - eye - zh (a soft "s" works for the last syllable as well, like the American "Bryce")

I can't think of many more than aren't simply phonetically obvious, in whatever accent of English you speak.

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Posted 24 January 2010 - 07:29 AM

Congratulations! We pronounce nothing alike!

Except, for perhaps Malazan.

I pronounce Brys like I do my name, Bri as in "eyes". Brys.

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Posted 24 January 2010 - 11:04 AM

Duiker is pronounced Dooker. Brys is pronounced Breeze. Raest is pronounced Ra-est (as in Ra the sun god and west).
Can't think of any others that surprised me.

Ay'edenan tek' velut !enan - how it appears but don't forget the glottal stops!

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Posted 25 January 2010 - 05:26 PM

I think if i remember rightly that Tiste was apparently pronounced in a bizarre way. Kruppe i think was another one that surprised me.

for the record i think
Tiste should be tisst (sounds a bit liek hissed)
Kruppe i pronounce Krupp-uh
Malazan is Mal-ah-zan (this one seems really obvious to me)
Baudin im actually not sure about it keeps changing in my mind but i think its Bow (as in bowing not bow and arrow)-din

from the ones Hetan mentioned i think i dont actually pronounced any of them right

Duiker is Duke-er
Raest is Ray-st (similar to haste)
Brys is Briss

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Posted 25 January 2010 - 05:36 PM

Hoosier's pronunciations look right to me

Doo-ee-keh!

O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti têde; keimetha tois keinon rhémasi peithomenoi.

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Posted 25 January 2010 - 10:08 PM

Die-Ker!

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 10:05 AM

Duiker = Dooy - kehr

Malazan = Mahl - az - ahn

Paran = Pah - rahn

Tavore = Tah - vor (hard r) - eh

Ruin = like the english word, ruin.

Tehol = Tee - ohl

Brys = Bryhs

Urko = Uhr - koh

Quon Tali = Kwon Tah - lee

Seven Cit... ah, wait, scratch that.

Korel = Koh - rehl

Jacuruku = Yah - tzu - ruh - koo

Aren = Ah - rehn

and so on. it might be my cultural and linguistic heritage of spelling, can't help myself most of the times. I'd probably differ a lot from you guys and your thick, moist language patterns.

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#30 Iconik

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Posted 27 January 2010 - 06:29 PM

I loved this thread the first time around and will now give you guys my pronunciations. I got one of my buddies into this series and he's always Blackberry messaging me asking how I pronounce things. So here goes. I'll do as many as I can remember.

Ganoes Paran - Gan-o's Pay-run
Tavore - Tuh-vor
Duiker - Dwicker
Onos - OHNOES!
Icarium - eye-care-ee-um
Mappo - Map-o
Brys - Bris
Tehol - Tay-ol
Kruppe - Crewp (lol)
Tiste Andii - Tist-e Andy (help me on this one please)
Tiste Edur - Tist-e Ee-der
Tiste Liosan - Tist-e Lee-o-zan
T'lan Imass - Literally TLAN EYEmus
Rhulad - Rue-lod
Ruin - English word 'ruin'
Purake - pure-ik
K'Chain Che'Malle - KCHAIN chuh-mall
Lether - Like "leather" but the 'th' is hard
Kallor - Kuh-lor

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 12:27 AM

Icarium for me is pronounced like Illiad. Soft I, not Eye.

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Posted 28 January 2010 - 02:14 AM

jacuruku has been forever changed in my mind. yahtzuruku for ever!

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Posted 09 February 2010 - 08:51 AM

Ganoes Paran - GAN (short a) - oh - z PAH - RAN (short a's)
Tavore - TAH (short a) - voar (like 'soar', or 'whore')
Duiker - DOO - ick - er
Icarium - I (short i) - care - ee - um
Mappo - MAH (short a) - po (long o)
Brys - like 'breeze'
Kruppe - CRU (long u) - pay
Tiste Andii - TIS - tay AN - dee
Tiste Edur - TIS - tay EE - door
Tiste Liosan - TIS - tay LEE - oh - zan
T'lan Imass - TELL - ANN EE - ma - ss
K'Chain Che'Malle - K CHAY - n CHEM - all - ee
Malazan - MAH (short a) - la - ZAH (short a) - n (not Malaysian... though I am forever going to read it that way, now, damn it...)
D'ivers - like the contestants in the sport of diving, though sometimes I read it like d - EE - ver - z

I've also wondered if 'Kalam' is KAH - lam (like 'lamb'), or if it's KAH - LAM (short a, same emphasis as first syllable).

I'm so used to reading Greek mythology where Aphrodite is AFRO (hah) - dye - tee that I almost always put some emphasis on the last 'e' with long names.

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 07:12 PM

It's strange, but I've recently altered my pronunciation of 'Andii' and it's all because of the word 'Andiian'

While reading DoD I came across 'Andiian' and I first pronounced it as: An - dee - eye - an.

but that sounded wonky and not like a people's race should sound. It didn't have the same ring as Liosan, Letherii, or Tali.

SO I changed it in my head to: An - dye - ee - an, and it all-of-a-sudden sounded better to my sensibilities. Now I started saying Andii as An-dye-ee and it just sounds better.

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 08:11 PM

Ammanas: uh-MAWN-uss
Brys: BRISS
D'ivers: duh-EYE-vurz
Duiker: DOO-ick-er
Edur: EE-der
Ganoes Paran: GAN-oze PAIR-en
Icarium: ick-AIR-ee-um
Jaghut: JAG-uht
K'Chain Che'Malle: kuh-CHAYN chuh-MAYL
Kruppe: KRUP
Liosan: lee-OZE-nn
Mael: MAY-uhl
Malaz: muh-LAZ
Malazan: MAL-uh-zan
Raest: RAY-ist
T'lan Imass: tuh-LAWN EYE-mass
Tavore: tuh-VORE
Tehol Beddict: TEE-hole BED-ickt
Tiste Andii: TISS-tee ANN-dee

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Posted 20 February 2010 - 08:49 AM

Andii = Ann-DEE or Ahn-DEE, depending on how I feel.

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Posted 02 March 2010 - 04:52 AM

Bent, on 15 January 2010 - 10:37 PM, said:

H.D., on 15 January 2010 - 08:51 PM, said:

At the Chicago meet there was a definite difference in how we pronounced the words. All I remember is that my pronunciations tended to match Morgy's pronunciations, and differed quite a bit from Bent's.

I would like to point out, however, that Steve CONFIRMED, that my pronunciation of MALAZAN (muh-lay-zshun...much like malasia, was accurate.)

muh-lay-zshun is the correct pronunciation of MALAZAN ? The malaysian book of the fallen ? The malaysian army ? Always be Ma La Zan for me, dont care what steve says lol

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Posted 03 March 2010 - 06:05 PM

So does that mean "Malaz" reads like "malaise"? I refuse to say it that way, but thematically I dig it.

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 07:06 PM

YEah, I will never pronounce it like that. Sorry Steve, it's my head, I can talk how I like inside of it.

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 07:34 PM

it's ma-LA-zan, like...I dunno, just accented on the 'la', nothing weird :band:

edit: I suppose the similarity to 'Malaysian' is the accent on the middle syllable, but there's no 'ay' sound

Tiste as in 'heist'
Andii = andee
Edur - ed-ur, though Hetan has got me saying ee-dur and I now prefer it that way
Raest = Ra-est
Mael = male

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