How do you pronounce the races?

[Ed Kolis]

I'm kinda curious... in MOO2, I always talked about the "Sack-ruh" and the "Mursh-ens", until I found out from MOO3 (ech) that the "proper" pronunciations were "Suh-Kraw" and "Mur-Shawn"... So how do you pronounce the various SE races?

Amonkrie = Am-in-kree (accent on the "kree", much like "Amun-Ra")
Xiati = Zye-at-eee (as in "Encounter at Virumque", with accent on the "at")
Piundon = Pyun-don
Sallega = Sell-egg-uh (accent on the "egg")
Norak = Nor-ack (accent on the "nor")
Sergetti = Sir-get-eee (similar to "spaghetti"... will "Sergetti Spaghetti" become a new Phong's Head fad menu item? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
Drushocka = Drew-shock-uh (accent on the "shock")
XiChung = Zee-Chung (both syllables accented roughly equally)
Fazrah = Faz-ruh (accent on the "faz")
Toltayan = Tole-tuh-yann (accent on the "tole")

The rest are either fairly obvious or I forgot about them http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

edit: oh, how could I forget the Jraenar (Jray-nar, sounds sort of like "Drano")??? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[douglas]

Hmm, how to make pronunciation explicitly clear... Pronounce each dash-separated part as the word/prefix/suffic/whatever that it would be in isolation.

Amonkrie = Am-un-cry
Xiati = Zee-ah-tea
Piundon = Pee-un-dun
Sallega = Sal-ay-guh
Norak = Nor-ack
Sergetti = Sir-get-eee
Drushocka = Drew-shock-uh
XiChung = Zee-Chung
Fazrah = Faz-ruh
Toltayan = Tole-tay (rhymes with say)-an

[wake_of_angels]

As the french I am will do:
Amonkrie = 'Am-on(as in bomb)-kry [Amhoncri in french way]
Xiati = Gzy-'a-ty
Piundon = Py-oun-'don(as in bomb)
Sallega = Sal-le-ga (a bit like sa-leg-a) [Salèga]
Norak = Nor-'ack
Sergetti = 'Ser-get-y [sèrjèti]
Drushocka = 'Drew-sho-ca [drouchoca]
XiChung = 'gzi-shoung [xichoung]
Fazrah = 'Faz-ra (fazra)
Toltayan = Tol'taïahn

[Will]

Amonkrie = ah-mon-KREE
Xiati = hard to describe the phonetics here... the Xi part I pronounce like how Chinese is transliterated to Xi... so kinda like ksi-AH-ti
Piundon = PEE-un-don
Sallega = sal-LEG-ah
Norak = NOR-ack
Sergetti = SER-jet-ti
Drushocka = drew-SHOWK-ah
XiChung = same Xi as from Xiait; ksi-CHUNG
Fazrah = FAZ-rah
Toltayan = tol-TAY-an
Jraenar = juh-RAY-nar

[geoschmo]

I made up a new phonetic sound for Xiati. You smush the x and the i together. Slowed down it would sound like

Ex-Eye-A(short A sound, like in cat)-Tee

but I make the Ex-Eye into one syllable. The X isn't completely pronounced and it sounds kind of like a hiss that turns into an I. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Alneyan]

The EEE: Earl Grey
The Pretorians (or some such): the Scarlet(t) Fireflies
The Jraenar: Traitors 'n Renegades
The Crystallines: The thorns in the back
The Norak: Niet, Nietzsche!
Etc.

What do you mean, I missed the point altogether? I can't say I have ever tried to pronounce those names, so I would probably settle for the first thing that crosses my head... or a mixture of various languages, more likely.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Amonkrie = Ah-monn-kree
Xiati = Zee-ahtee
Piundon = Pay-un-don
Sallega = Sell-ee-gah
Norak = Norack (plain and simple)
Sergetti = Seyr-get-tee
Drushocka = Droo-shocka
XiChung = Zee-Choong
Fazrah = Fazrah
Toltayan = Toll-tay(as in pay)-ehn
Jraenar = roughly, "Jiraynar"

[Fyron]

Does nobody else pronounce the "Jr" as a single sound in Jraenar? Almost like the "dr" in drum (or perhaps dram to keep with a similar "a" vowel for the entire syllable), but with a "j" subtly modifying it.

Something like: "DRAY-nar"

It doesn't seem to me that pronounciations like "juh-RAY-nar" make much sense, as they are adding an extra vowel sound not present in the word, when you can pronounce the "jr" fairly easily. YMMV

[narf poit chez BOOM]

A-mon-kree. Cause it rhymes with monkey. Other than that, I havn't really thought about it.

[Will]

Well, I don't really put a vowel in the juh, it's just the only way I could think of to put it. It's more like the sound you make when you're first learning the alphabet. "J as in j- juh- jump". It's like the first sound there, where you're saying the letter's sound, but just letting it trail off without adding the vowel. Now slam an accented RAY right next to it. juh-RAY-nar. It's basically close enough that you could consider it a single syllable.

[Renegade 13]

Amonkrie = A-mon-kree
Xiati = Xee-ah-tee
Piundon = Pee-uhn-dun
Sallega = Sal-egg-uh
Norak = Nor-ack
Sergetti = Sir-gett-ee
Drushocka = Drew-shoke-ah
XiChung = Xee-Chung
Fazrah = Faz-ruh
Toltayan = Tol-tay-uhn

Jraenar = Tough one. "Jr" as a single sound, almost as if you're saying "Shhh" only with more of a Z sound than an S. So:

J-reh-nar

[Suicide Junkie]

Amonkrie = Ah-mon-kree
Xiati = 'sigh-eh?-tee (Note: Canadian style "eh?")
Piundon = Pie-undone
Sallega = Sah-leg-uh
Norak = No-rack
Sergetti = Sir-jet-eee (The Flying EEE Knight)
Drushocka = Drew-shock-ah
XiChung = 'sigh-chuh'hung
Fazrah = Fa'zz-ruh
Toltayan = Tol-tay-uhn
Jraenar = J-ray-narrr!
Note: J = the first sound common to John, Jack, Jump.

[Urendi Maleldil]

Amonkrie = A Monkey
Xiati = Zee Tee
Piundon = Pyoon Dun
Sallega = Sally Ga
Norak = Noraq
Sergetti = Sperghetti
Drushocka = Drew Shocker
XiChung = Sigh (Wang) Chung
Fazrah = Fuzzy Rah
Toltayan = Tot Lee Yan
Jraenar = Drain Err

[Nomis]

Mostly I pronounce all races like others. Except Jraenar.
In Poland "J" is pronounced like "Y". So

Jraenar = Yra-enar

[bearclaw]

Jraenar- I've always assumed the J was silent because it was followed by a consenant. Not for any particular reason but RAY-nar.

[AgentZero]

Given that I invented most of these guys, I'll go ahead and clear this up. Here it is, folks, the official pronunciation guide, along with how the name came to be.

Piundon = Pee-Undone (Extremely bad Chinese-English translation that had me rolling around on the floor. It was from some ettiquete guide which at one point reminds it's readers to unzip their fly before urinating by saying 'Remember: Pee Undone')
Sallega = Sal-Egg-A (From Salad, Egg A(nd) mayonaise sandwich. Pretty much all my girlfriend at the time would eat)
Norak = No-Rack (What she had as a result of this diet)
Sergetti = Sayer-Ghetti (A bastardization of a nickname for one of my friends based on her extremely drunken attempts to pronounce her own name. Her name: Sandra Johnson. Go figure)
Drushocka = Drew-Shock-Ah (My lab partner, Drew, kept shocking me, which made me go ah!)
Praetorians = Pray-toe-ree-anz (I'd jus watched a documentary on Rome's Praetorian Guard. Sue me)

I think I might be responsible for a few more of them, but I can't really remember, since there was a good few race descriptions that had their actual artwork done by Eric Henry.

[Renegade 13]

AgentZero said:
Norak = No-Rack (What she had as a result of this diet)


Oh man this had me laughing for a good long time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif I'll never look at those Norak the same again!! Wait...is that why their face is a little flat!!?? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Sivran]

Pi'undon - Pee Undone :O
Xiati - Zee-atty
Norak - Nor-ack. I am the Norak. I speak for the trees! Or was that Lorak..
Sergetti - Ser-ghetti. Serengetti, without the en.
Drushocka - Drew-shaka(zulu!)
XiChung - Zih-chung
Toltayan - Tol-tie-an

Now, how do you pronounce UR-QUAN?
Ur-Quan - Err-Kwon

[Suicide Junkie]

Sivran said:
Now, how do you pronounce UR-QUAN?
Ur-Quan - Err-Kwon

Ur as in Urkel. Quan as in Quantum.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Ur-Quan? Same. Err-Kwon.

[Suicide Junkie]

Of course, now you have to explain how to pronounce kwon.

[TurinTurambar]

"Ur" is not the same as "Err." It's Oor, with an "oo" sound. Duh

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...Exactly like it looks, SJ.

[wake_of_angels]

for me it's UR-kan
same 'u' than french one , or german ü, or in "uber"
absolutly not the english way to say
and same 'a' in large