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#1 Guest_Midori_*

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Posted 24 January 2006 - 02:03 AM

Could someone help me out by telling me how to pronounce the main names? I always hate it when I say them wrong.

#2 No-God

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Posted 24 January 2006 - 02:25 AM

I think most of them are pretty straightforward.
An-om-an-der Rake
G (as in 'grape')-an-o-s Par-an
Tattersail
Wis-ky-jak
D-u-jek Won-arm
Tas-scher-ynn

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Posted 24 January 2006 - 02:39 AM

thanks

just wanted to make sure I was right.

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Posted 24 January 2006 - 03:31 AM

Well, pronounce them how the hell you like;)
But if you want help... any others you're wondering about?

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

#5 Tsundoku

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Posted 24 January 2006 - 08:42 AM

I have wondered about names like Tiste Andii. Is it:
TEE-stay an-Dee, or
Tist an-Dee, or
Tisty an-Dee, or ... ad infinitum?
I tend to go with the first one. Dunno why, guess it sounds more exotic.

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Posted 24 January 2006 - 08:56 AM

I think it's Tee-st, Like Piste and to rhyme with Feast and Least.

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Posted 24 January 2006 - 11:03 AM

I picture it as "TIS-te AN-dyi" -- I figure there's a reason for the two i's in Andii.

And I personally pronounce "Ganoes Paran" as "GAY-nosh PARE-an," but that's just me. I doubt that anyone else does so.

A guide to pronunciation as in Tolkien would be nice, but also quite difficult to do. I suspect that the number of imaginary languages these names are drawn from would make a clear useful guide impossible. Plus I doubt that SE has given these names any real linguistic significance in the first place. I imagine they're mostly just "fantasy" names, and any etymological background for them comes second. Pronunciation in some of them may not even be clear to SE himself, for all we know...

#8 fortyseven

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Posted 25 January 2006 - 05:46 AM

SE or Patch said that :

Tiste ('i' as in bike and silent 'e')

and I think Andii is "and-ee-eye" or "and-ee"

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Posted 25 January 2006 - 07:08 AM

Cool.

Another chapter for the Encyclopaedia Malazica then. There can never be enough! Oh, hang on, as long as it gets published, that is ...

Cheers,

La Sombra, the devil in your de-tail ^_^

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 02:58 PM

so lets have a go at otataral ^_^

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 04:47 PM

I always saw Tiste Andii as being pronounced Tis-Tee An-dee (but keep the Tee and Dee short.)
But if Erikson says it is pronounced ticed... then, hey I'll go with that. ^_^

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Posted 26 January 2006 - 08:17 PM

It was Mal who mentioned the Tiste business. And he said it's more along the lines of Heist.

He got that from SE.

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Posted 08 February 2006 - 12:20 PM

I always thought it was Tay-Shren....hmmm....and I was just reading this last night. hehe

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Posted 09 February 2006 - 12:59 AM

ano-man-der

tiste as in heist; andii as in andy ( ie just draw out the i slightly)

o-tat-tar-al...yes, hetan, this is how it is pronounced.

gan-nose pa-ran

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Posted 09 February 2006 - 12:59 AM

Midori said:

Could someone help me out by telling me how to pronounce the main names? I always hate it when I say them wrong.

I just finished GOTM and had trouble with some pronunciations.Too bad they didn't have these on CD or audio tape,it would be worth a listen just to hear how they should actually be pronounced.

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Posted 09 February 2006 - 04:24 AM

Ok, I'm just gunna come right out and say it.

T-i-s-t-e is a really poor way to spell something you want pronounced that way.

It should be Teist or Tyst... ok while trying to come up with alternate spellings i realised 'taste' is spelled and pronounced the same way... i still don't like it tho...

I've never said anything bad about SE before...

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Posted 09 February 2006 - 10:45 AM

You know, even thought we've had "official" confirmation of how to pronounce Tiste Andii, I'm going to continue to say it the same way I always have, which is definitely not how Pallor just described it.

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Posted 09 February 2006 - 04:46 PM

always thought "Tiste" was like "beast" with a "T". Heist seems wrong.

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Posted 09 February 2006 - 10:02 PM

Dolorous Menhir said:

always thought "Tiste" was like "beast" with a "T". Heist seems wrong.

thats the way ive always said it, but when you talk to other malazaners you hear some weird pronunciations so each to their own as far as im concerned.... although when it comes to the movies kallor if they dont pronounce everything just as i say it..... well..... ooooooh........... i probably wont be that bothered because there'll be a malazan movie - wooo and a hoooo!