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La Canaliste
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written Friday, March 4 2005 00:11
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An uber-Scottish pronunciation would be Kawth. -------------------- I am a pale shadow of the previous self. quote: Deep down, you know you should have voted for Alcritas! Posts: 387 | Registered: Tuesday, March 1 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, March 4 2005 00:57
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quote:Is Khoth Scottish? Edit: Yes it would, but it'd lose some of its relevance. | | | | V [ Friday, March 04, 2005 01:18: Message edited by: Daryl Mycroft [Arancaytar] ] -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 4 2005 01:11
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Yes, although the above sentence would be equally true if he weren't. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Friday, March 4 2005 01:48
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I pronounce it like Kawth. Isn't that the normal 'o' sound? -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 4 2005 02:17
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Er, I pronounce "Khoth" with an "o" as in "box". (And if you pronounce "box" as "bawx", I'm afraid I'm just going to have to start giggling helplessly.) -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Friday, March 4 2005 02:53
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I pronounce it like the 'o' in coffee. Which is 'cawfee'. It sounds very Bostonian to me to pronounce Khoth with the 'o' from box, like it was actually spelled Kharth. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, March 4 2005 03:34
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Sometimes, just for fun, I'll pronounce Khoth "Kuh-hawth." -------------------- —Zxquez Zolohahni I eat blueberries in pie square. Xerch'de/Rate. I miss you, but I haven't met you yet. So special, but it hasn't happened yet. Posts: 549 | Registered: Thursday, October 17 2002 07:00 |
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Post Navel Trauma ^_^
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written Friday, March 4 2005 08:26
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quote:The 'o' from 'box' would make it Kharth? You pronounce box like barx? -------------------- Barcoorah: I even did it to a big dorset ram. desperance.net - Don't follow this link Posts: 1798 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, March 4 2005 08:32
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On the other hands, I am surrounded by native speakers who pronounce 'box' as 'beux' with lazily flattened 'u' somewhat in between aw in 'saw' and oo in 'booze'. . . and this is how I think they are saying it . . . and they're native speakers. . . all you can do is blame my ears and buy me some ortex. 'Kheuth'. . . poor thing. [ Friday, March 04, 2005 13:17: Message edited by: banned member ] Posts: 53 | Registered: Saturday, February 19 2005 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, March 4 2005 12:25
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quote:The full name is Cavanoskus Aethertaangoth, with Cavanoskus loosely translated as "hiding/stalking in the shadows" and Aethertaangoth as "Ethereal black sword." The names come from extremely twisted and bastardized words based on various actual languages. Yes, Latin is in there somewhere. I invented the name when I was somewhere between 13-15...I'm not sure exactly when, but it was the name I gave my character in online message board-based dragon roleplaying. -------------------- AIM/Yahoo IM: Cavanoskus Scary artwork and Bad Poetry The Wildlife Research Team SnakeNetMetalRadio "We, who are about to die, salute you." Posts: 86 | Registered: Friday, May 21 2004 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Friday, March 4 2005 13:58
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quote:It's the other way around - in Boston, barx would be pronounced like box, since car is pronounced cah, etc. A really strange one is 'careful', which in Boston becomes 'cahful'. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 4 2005 15:30
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So you'd pronounce "bauxite" as "boxite"? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, March 4 2005 16:23
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You mean that's not how it would be pronounced? Maybe it's a dialect thing. -------------------- The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) Famous Last Words - A local pop-punk band They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 4 2005 16:45
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Well, we'd pronounce "au" and "aw" like the "or" in "born" (note that we don't pronounce the R in words like "born".) The "o" in words like "box" is a shorter, less rounded sound. [ Friday, March 04, 2005 16:46: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, March 4 2005 19:46
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Khoth = koz (...) Wise Man = Stan Laurel. How is Alcritas pronounced? Is the "i" long, short? Is it an "i" like "Time"? -------------------- quote:Random Jack Vance Quote Manual Generator Apparatus (Cugel's Saga) Posts: 604 | Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 4 2005 19:50
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I pronounce it: AL (as in Alec or Albert) - crit (as in "critter") - az (as in "Baz Luhrmann".) But I'm bad with Ancient Greek names so that may well be wrong. [ Friday, March 04, 2005 19:51: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, March 4 2005 20:27
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How are Khoth and Box pronounced differently. To me they're both Kawth, Bawx "O" makes an aw sound, right. It should never say its own name "O" unless there's an e one letter over or its one of the numerous exceptions. -------------------- I stop rubber at 160km/h, five times a week. CANUCKS RESPEK! My Style The Knight Between Posts. Posts: 2395 | Registered: Friday, November 2 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, March 4 2005 20:37
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For me it's not a long O (as one would get when saying the letter O), and it's not an "aw". It's a short O. I'd give examples, but I'm starting to fear that just about anything I pronounce with a short O, you pronounce with an "aw". -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, March 4 2005 20:51
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I've pronouned Alcritas al-CRI-tas. EDIT: Haw, put a Z instead of an S; silly me. [ Saturday, March 05, 2005 16:07: Message edited by: Millicent, Dear Millicent ] -------------------- —Zxquez Zolohahni I eat blueberries in pie square. Xerch'de/Rate. I miss you, but I haven't met you yet. So special, but it hasn't happened yet. Posts: 549 | Registered: Thursday, October 17 2002 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, March 5 2005 06:42
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al-CREE-tus is how I pronounce it, with the "u" being a schwa. [ Saturday, March 05, 2005 06:43: Message edited by: The Almighty Doer of Stuff ] -------------------- The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) Famous Last Words - A local pop-punk band They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, March 5 2005 08:33
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I pronounce Alcritas AL-cree-tahs, no schwas, but the first a pronounced short like in 'ulcer'. It rhymes with Alcatraz. [ Saturday, March 05, 2005 08:34: Message edited by: Daryl Mycroft [Arancaytar] ] -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, March 5 2005 10:17
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I'm in the AL-cree-tus camp. AL sounds just like the nickname and the U in tus is a schwa sound. —Alorael, who should have voted for him. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Saturday, March 5 2005 10:52
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Pfft. It's obviously AL-cri-taz. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, March 5 2005 19:03
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quote:So pretty much your name means "Hiding the Ethereal Black Sword in the shadows"? Al-cry-tus is the way its said for me. -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. Polaris Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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Guardian
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written Sunday, March 6 2005 00:51
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I tend to pronounce Alcritas all-CREE-toss. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |