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[ysobel]

Am less cranky on WoW front now that Jhalia has the Pilgrim title (and pet). Turkinator involved using Tirisfal instead of Elwynn, and still took three tries and a lot of swearing. Other characters are mainly going for quest xp and cooking skillz.

Which brings me, indirectly, to a poll I've been meaning to post for a while, namely: how do you pronounce names that are only written down? Some of these are usernames I've had, some are WoW or other gaming characters, some are origfic characters.

Please be as precise as possible. (Anyone who says "as it's written" or any variant of that joke will be soundly thwapped.) If you're using English letters, either try to use ones that don't have double pronunciation (eg "g" can be guh, dzh, or zh, depending on context); if you use rhymes ("sounds like $foo"), try to avoid ones that have obvious dialectal variations; if you want to use IPA, feel free \o/ but it isn't at all required.

Poll #1782 How do (or would) you pronounce...

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Isabeau

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Ysobel

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Jhalia

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Haaki

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Asherinn

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Herayn

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Shiara

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Deslejn

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Hwyfr

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Zado

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(something I forgot to add to the list?)

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ticky please
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[yvi]

Sorry, I am really bad at transcribing for an English reader - most of my name pronunciations are heavily colored by my native language. Vowels are pronounced very differently and consonant length rules are different, I suppose. Which I find interesting, I am very sure you would pronounce my name differently than I do, as all native English speakers do that. I've had a few fun times trying to explain how to pronounce the vowels in German names.

[sophie]

I alternate between pronouncing your name like 'ivy' (eye-vee), 'eevee' (ee-vee), and 'yvi' (ee-vye). Heh.

[yvi]

Oh, I meant my actual first name :)

I do pronounce Yvi eye-vee, though as a nickname for Yvonne in German it would be pronounced like ee-vee.

[dreamatdrew]

Now I'm all curious about how you pronounce your first name. (not going there in public)

[pne]

I do pronounce Yvi eye-vee, though as a nickname for Yvonne in German it would be pronounced like ee-vee.

I've always assumed it was supposed to be ee-vee. (FWIW, "Yvonne" starts with an "ee" sound even in English, at least for me.)

[cesy]

That's interesting. I'd been thinking of Yvi as having a slightly shorter vowel at the front, so I'd transcribe it ivv-ee rather they ee-vee.

[ex_rising236]

I managed some of those, which are coloured by my conglomeration of languages spoken. All of my answers are in IPA, since I know it, though I had to look up a symbol for Jhalia because I knew how I said it and hadn't a clue what to put there.

[krait]

which are coloured by my conglomeration of languages spoken

Heh, I noticed this in my own responses. (Though it's the more interesting because quite often the two not-English lingos I'm marginally able in contradict each other!)