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  1. Scribus Scribus

    I don't recall when it happened, but I've found myself in the "pronouncing AT-AT as 'at at' instead of 'ay tee ay tee'" camp.

    But I still don't call an AT-ST an "at st" or an "at ess tee."

    Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:21:15 UTC from web
    1. Narwhal Narwhal

      @scribus On the topic of pronunciation, today someone in my English class was giving a presentation and pronounced "solemn" as "so-lemon".

      Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:23:25 UTC from web
      1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

        @terezi ah, the 'l' 'm' 'n' and 'r' syllables. A lovely part of written and spoken English.

        Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:26:52 UTC from web
        1. Narwhal Narwhal

          @nomorepuns I prefer rolling my 'r's when parlant en français

          Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:28:35 UTC from web
          1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

            @terezi I decided to read up a little on the Etruscan language, at least what little we know of it, and it spoke about the possibility of those sounds being sonorants. Much like in English is pronounced, 'little', 'manner', 'lemon'. And a trill... would that be more like a Corsican thing? Not sure if they make a trill versus the guttural sound in French Canadian.

            Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:31:16 UTC from web
            1. Narwhal Narwhal

              @nomorepuns Canadian French is more trills than guttural sounds. Actually, most of the inflections are similar to France French, the biggest difference between the 2 is vernacular.

              Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:34:06 UTC from web
              1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                @terezi Hm. So if I were to try and pronounce French I'd sound more Canadian and not entirely terrible. Neat.

                Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:35:39 UTC from web
                1. Narwhal Narwhal

                  @nomorepuns Yeah, you could likely pull it off because of your background. I know my Venezuelan friend has pointed out to me in the past that a lot of my French pronunciation habits tend to come out when he's showing me words in Spanish.

                  Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:39:07 UTC from web
                  1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                    @terezi I actually make some of a difference as to how pronounce my 'r's, either the flap or the trill, and had incorporated that into Maycan pronounciation. It's kind of like how Spanish makes the difference betwixt 'r' and 'rr'.

                    Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:40:50 UTC from web
                    1. Narwhal Narwhal

                      @nomorepuns The conversation mostly arose around the pronunciation of the "re" sound in Spanish vs French, wherein Spanish usually emphasizes the e more to make an "ay" sound while French usually emphasizes thr r more to make a "ruh" sound.

                      Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:46:52 UTC from web
                      1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                        @terezi Rhotacism is a neat little facet of the realm of pronunciation in language.

                        Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:47:59 UTC from web
                        1. Narwhal Narwhal

                          @nomorepuns The pronunciation of 'r' is pretty crucial to a lot of European languages.

                          Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:49:00 UTC from web
                          1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                            @terezi Apparently in the Arabic languages too, makes the difference in a way as to which variant you normally speak. Although those are way more different than just pronunciations.

                            Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:50:17 UTC from web
    2. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

      @scribus It doesn't really seem right to pronounce either of those any other way though. Kind of on the fence in regards to how to pronounce acronyms.

      Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:24:08 UTC from web
    3. RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space)

      @scribus at street

      Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:28:30 UTC from web
    4. Narwhal Narwhal

      @scribus Though to clarify the pronunciations of all of those, AT-AT is pronounced "at at" however AT-ST is spelled out. There's no definitive rule in the series for how its acronyms are pronounced, so you have to treat each name as an isolated case (for example, TIE fighters are pronounced "tie fighters" whereas R2D2 is just spelled out).

      Thursday, 02-Apr-15 02:31:48 UTC from web