Author Topic: Zelda Pronunciations (Read 34396 times)

Requiem · « **Reply #25 on:** January 03, 2007, 04:36:51 PM »

Quote
Originally posted by: KnowsNothing
On the subject, where do you goons put the emphasis in "Deku." Is it "DEK-oo" or "dek-OO"?

Wait, am I the only one that pronounces "Deku", "DEE-ku"?

I thought both vowels take the long form.

Kairon · « **Reply #26 on:** January 03, 2007, 05:05:04 PM »

WELCOME TO ENGLISH. ENJOY YOUR STAY.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

KDR_11k · « **Reply #27 on:** January 03, 2007, 11:03:20 PM »

I pronounce everything the way it is written but I pronounce y as ü instead of i. Oh and Zelda, I pronounce that with a soft s instead of a z.

JonLeung · « **Reply #28 on:** January 04, 2007, 02:11:50 AM »

TomAYto, TomAHto.

I'm glad most of my pronounciations are how the majority here say them, and am amused or intrigued by the other pronounciations, but in the end it doesn't matter much.

In Pokémon, I kept saying "Rayquaza" like Ray-Kwaz-Za but then they pronounced it Ray-Kwayz-Za in the seventh Pokémon movie. Considering there's one z and it looks like Pig Latin for "Quazar", they're probably right. But considering they say "Poke-Uh-Mon" as well as "Poke-Ay-Mon" when anybody can see the accent (é) that really should make it the latter, an official source could be confused or downright mistaken as well - so even if they pronounced them in the game or other Zelda material there would still be debates.

Similarly, in Star Wars you have "Haahn Solo", but Lando, his pal, says "Hann Solo".

ryancoke · « **Reply #29 on:** January 04, 2007, 02:21:17 AM »

Epona = dog-food (at least on my game

)

ThePerm · « **Reply #30 on:** January 04, 2007, 03:52:00 AM »

heres how i pronounce everything

http://theperm.tetrametrics.com/Video/zeruda.mp3

ThePerm · « **Reply #31 on:** January 04, 2007, 04:11:11 AM »

kdr you don't count your German, although....put up a sound byte, cus i can imagine how you prounce Zelda withthe soft s, or possibly Tselda., It probably sounds cool either way. and jonleung Edmontosaurus has more sylables then Edmund thats why its pronounced differently

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #32 on:** January 04, 2007, 04:21:46 AM »

Regarding Deku, am I the only one who pronounces it Day-Koo. Myself and my friends have always pronounced it in this fashion.

Oh, and how about Malon. I have heard many other people say may-lon, I personally pronounce it Mal-In (Mal, pronounced like the name of the captain in Firefly).

This is exactly why voice acting would suck. Everyone has their own way of saying all of these words. If Nintendo were to step in and mess with that, everytime a word was said differently than how you originally pronounced it, it would be a detractor from the game and it would fail to immerse you in the same way it always has.

MaryJane · « **Reply #33 on:** January 04, 2007, 04:29:10 AM »

Quote
Originally posted by: Kairon
I willingly mispronounce Chocobo when I've been told the proper pronouciation is otherwise, so I tend to be tolerant of different ways of pronouncing things.Besides, I originally pronounced Harry Potter's Hermione as Her-mee-own, and thought that Her-my-oh-knee was weird... but *eh* I got used to it, and now my original pronounciation sounds weird instead.~Carmine "Cai" M. RedKairon@aol.com

Is your real name Viktor krum?

Anywho it really is each to his own 'Since there isn't any voice acting unleSS someone Can get a Sound clip of a Nintendo personality saying the names but then you have to worry about accents

JonLeung · « **Reply #34 on:** January 04, 2007, 04:38:25 AM »

If people can create functional but fictional languages (apparently Klingon is) then it would be cool if they could at least come up with a Hylian/Hyrulian accent.

Oh, man, what if the Hylian accent turned out to be actually really HAWT? o_0 You know, like French or Australian...heck, any foreign accent? I'd watch any scenes where Zelda speaks over and over and over and over... *drool* Or if it was really that hot, any of the females, really.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #35 on:** January 04, 2007, 04:39:50 AM »

The only one where I seem to differ from the majority is "Deku", which I pronounce "day-koo".

ThePerm · « **Reply #36 on:** January 04, 2007, 04:46:43 AM »

you probably pronounce that correctly, i prouncouce it Dehkkuh, i pronounce Malon like the city Malon(italy)

Ian Sane · « **Reply #37 on:** January 04, 2007, 05:33:26 AM »

"'Cause 'pony' totally starts with a long e sound, right?"

Pony is "poh-nee", thus "ee-poh-nah". Using my logic it would only be "eh-poh-nah" if pony was "poh-nay".

"Regarding Deku, am I the only one who pronounces it Day-Koo. Myself and my friends have always pronounced it in this fashion."

I do too. Though sometimes I say "dee-koo" as well. I think I originally said one and my brother said the other so we both flip-flop between both.

I pronounce Malon phonetically.

Originally in A Link to the Past I read "Kakariko" as "Karkariko" and thus pronounce it REALLY wrong half the time. "Kack-ah-ree-koh" or "care-care-ee-koh" if I'm in dumbass mode.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #38 on:** January 04, 2007, 05:44:24 AM »

NINTENDOWHINEREPORT.COM strikes again =D

TIP EHT FO MOTTOB

JonLeung · « **Reply #39 on:** January 04, 2007, 05:55:25 AM »

I pronounce "Zelda" like this: BAY-BA-LISH-USS HAWT-TEE.

ThePerm · « **Reply #40 on:** January 04, 2007, 06:02:31 AM »

in other news my brother pronounces Sony "Sawnee" which is weird because Sony sometimes says their name in their comercials....

also 99% of us pronounce nintendo wrong. its not Nin Ten Doh its
Neen Teyn Doh. I will however continue to say it wrong, and attribute its mispronunciation as the proper way to say it in English.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #41 on:** January 04, 2007, 06:12:41 AM »

"also 99% of us pronounce nintendo wrong. its not Nin Ten Doh its
Neen Teyn Doh. I will however continue to say it wrong, and attribute its mispronunciation as the proper way to say it in English."

Doesn't NOA pronounce it "Nin Ten Doh"? I always hear that in ads so I'd say it's the proper way to say it in English.

I also call id Software "eye dee software", which is wrong, but I always pronounce Pokemon correctly even if I'm too lazy to but in the accent in my spelling.

ThePerm · « **Reply #42 on:** January 04, 2007, 06:17:24 AM »

i also pronounce id softare as eye dee, even though i am very aware its id like did minus the d as in the id the ego and the super ego

decoyman · « **Reply #43 on:** January 04, 2007, 06:39:38 AM »

Deku = Day-koo
Hylian = High-lee-en (like Hyrule, jeez, get with the program guys!)
Malon = Mal-on
Malo = Mal-oh (like the last part of marshmallow)

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #44 on:** January 04, 2007, 07:14:58 AM »

I didn't realize dee and day-koo were so popular. I personally say deh-KOO =S

TrueNerd · « **Reply #45 on:** January 04, 2007, 08:35:25 AM »

I pronounce ocarina like "Ah-kar-eena" when I'm pretty sure its "Oh-kar-eena."

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #46 on:** January 04, 2007, 08:45:28 AM »

It's pronounced in the standard Japanese syllable-metric (pretty sure I just made up a word!) way..."Oh-ka-ree-na"..."De-ku"...etc...

The only word I think is arguable is "Hylian," which could either be "High-lee-en" or "Hih-lee-en"...I personally find the latter to sound better...

Kairon · « **Reply #47 on:** January 04, 2007, 08:54:11 AM »

We're only arguing in this thread because we can no longer argue about which side of Hyrule is west or east and where things should be on the map. We made an even more pointless argument because, nintendo fanboys that we are, we're not used to having so little to complain about.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

JonLeung · « **Reply #48 on:** January 04, 2007, 08:54:36 AM »

I was thinking about how words are in Japanese and was thinking about how the Japanese would say Ka-ka-ri-ko and Ge-ru-do.

Until this topic I had never even considered that Gerudo could be pronounced with a "J" sound but the Japanese pronounciation might clear things up.

Dirk Temporo · « **Reply #49 on:** January 04, 2007, 10:44:37 AM »

Hylia is totally hill-ee-ah.

News:

Author Topic: Zelda Pronunciations (Read 34396 times)