[Dolorous Menhir]

I don't see the difficulty with Tayschrenn, it's just said the way it looks, as luxury yacht guy says.

[Abyss]

Tay is easy -> rhymes with day, say, gay or hay.

Schrenn is less claer...
- like 'Shreck', with 'en' at the end;
- like the 'h' in 'hummus' if you pronounce it middle-eastern style, with that throaty phlegmic noise;
- like you're clearing your throat.

- Abyss, aka Abschyss.

[Dolorous Menhir]

"wren" with a "shh" sound.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

it's spelled tayschrenn, but actually pronounced Tay-throatwobblermangrove.

[Otenba-chan]

I was wondering how everyone pronounced Tavore.... i say and think tah-vo-ray, but i think that's a language thing. was wondering how the native english-speakers pronounced it

[Danforth]

Tavore - Ta-vor

Tayschrenn I use either Tay-shren or Ti-shren

For Dryjhna I have a bit of a wierd pronounciation i think instead of Drij-na i say Dry-jar-na but with a really soft j (bit like the name sian i think).

What about Mael? I use Male, any thoughts?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Danforth;116770 said:

What about Mael? I use Male, any thoughts?

Male with a little extra "eh" before the L, not quite a glottal stop. May-ehl

[Dolorous Menhir]

I say it "my - ell"

[Otenba-chan]

Maa-el

fun to see how everyone pronounces everything

[The Rope]

yea (really short) gittan (Y'Ghatan)
SE pronounces Jaghut ja-goot (one of the thingy majigs...)
Tah-vor
May-ell
Dridge-nah
Toe blah kai
Ah day fon Dee lat Kay lum
Meh kar
Koe tillion
Ah man ahss
Krup
bin ah das

i ant think of anymore...

[Called-by-the-Voices]

Dryjna- there's a river here on the border of Bosnia and Serbia called Drina... So that's the way I pronnounce Dryjhna (Dree-na)

[Grimjust Bearegular]

hmm, I've always thought it was Tay-Skrenn:P

_Y_gah-tann

Mael -pretty straight forward..I pronounce it like a norwegian does.Mah-el. or something similiar..depends on where in norway you come from of course:P

Iss-ka-rall Pust (as in bust)

Mo(short closed "o" like in Monique) go(like mo) rah

Menn-ahn-door-eh

Oh-pon(d)

Sill(as in silly)- ar-ah


how do you pronounce:

T'lann Imass?

Kruppe?

Dejim Nebrahl?

Hannan Mosag?

Ganoes Paran?

Felisin?

[rlfcl]

dashes just mark syllables here

tuh-lan eye-mass (the I as you would say the personal pronoun)
Kroop
Ded-jim Neb-rawl
Han-an Moe-sag
Gan-ose Pare-an
Fel-is-in (not much more i can do with this one)

others:
Tiste Andii = Tis-tee And-ee-ee or sometimes just Tis-tee And-ee because it's shorter
K'Chain Che'Malle = Kuh-Chane (ch as in choose) Chay-Mal (as in the first part of mallet)

[Dinivan]

This is really quite funny...I'm often pronouncing these in a German way, even in the english texts...weird... But i don't have much problems with that, the problems arise when I'm trying to find an english way of pronounciation

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Hmmmm, I say Tlan ee-mass (the Tlan bit like the end of Tenochtictlan), Kroop-uh, and Hann-an Moss-ag so we're a little different.

For Tiste Andii I read Teest And-ee, even though I know it's not. We had a little talk about this at the meet up, it's definitely Tist-ee, but cant remember the Andii bit, I think it was Andy-eye, like how you'd say the Brutii.

[rlfcl]

Thelomen Toblerone;149611 said:

Hmmmm, I say Tlan ee-mass (the Tlan bit like the end of Tenochtictlan), Kroop-uh, and Hann-an Moss-ag so we're a little different.

For Tiste Andii I read Teest And-ee, even though I know it's not. We had a little talk about this at the meet up, it's definitely Tist-ee, but cant remember the Andii bit, I think it was Andy-eye, like how you'd say the Brutii.

my ancient warfare teacher last year was one of those who's convinced that ii is pronounced ee-ee instead of ee-eye, and after hearing triar-ee-ee for half a year it stuck. i suppose this is some sort of debate within classical philology (read: nerds).

[GardenGnome]

Rome: Total War pronounces triarii as triaree-eye, and so do I for that word, if I ever need to use an english accent on it. Andii for me is just is just andii - the ii is like the e from evil, just a bit longer.

[Saccian]

Most of the ways I pronounce words other people seem to as well. A couple different pronounciations I use are: Dryjhna I've always pronounced it Dry-nah. Not sure why and for Kruppe I say Kroop, as thats the way Uwe Kruppe the hockey players name was pronounced(at least by Canadian sports broadcasters), but I think I'm alone in that one. I know SE inteded it to be jag-oot, but even now that I know that, I'm still stuck on my original pronounciation of Jagg-hut.

[ledhead73]

i looks at the apostrophes in k'chain and t'lan like a break and i make the sound of the letter. so i pretty much say kchain and tuh (but short) lan

becayse Tool says that when the t is added as a prefix it means broken so i interpret that like "don't" or "can't" done tuh or can tuh (but as 1 syllable)

and i say che'malle like che guevera's name and malle like mahl.

steven erikson is so friggin awesome. his languages and stuff are consistand too so you could tell if a name is jaghut for example. i think that adds alot more depth and makes it seem more believable.