[ SECRET POST #5508 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5508 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Shadows House]


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[Wheel of Time]


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[Majora's Mask]


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[Chernobylite]











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Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[iff_and_xor]

What fandom names or terms did/do you mispronounce?

Which mispronunciations in your fandoms bug you the most?

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Despite watching the show (granted second screening it), I still don't know how to pronounce Geralt and Jaskier.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of the Chinese names from webnovels and in Genshin Impact but I tried my hardest to change it.

And one example of a mispronounciation I absolutely loathe (not my fandom but in general) was back when the Ghibli adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle came out. In my country's dub (which was the only version you could watch in cinema here at the time) they went out of their way to pronounce Howl as Hauro (Hah-uh-ro) in some sort of weird, nonsensical faux-Japanese way. Which is so much worse than people in fandom doing it wrong because the people creating the dub where getting fucking PAID for it and yet neither bothered to do even the slightest bit of research or use some common sense and bloody hell it still makes me mad.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[pantswarrior]

Final Fantasy has a lot of things that are mispronounced FOR A REASON.

Like how the alleged actual pronunciation for Tidus in FFX was so weird that apparently no one ever in English-speaking fandom says it correctly. And Quistis and Yuffie make sense, but are not what most of us thought until... I think Yuffie's name was spoken aloud in Kingdom Hearts voice acting or something and we all went "wait what"

I tried to pronounce Cait Sith correctly when I was working on the cosplay, but everyone who asked what I would be cosplaying later at the convention kept going "Who?" so I gave up and just call him "Kate Sith" like everyone else. :/

None of these mispronunciations actually bother me because at this point it's as good as canon for the English fandom, hahah.

I am moderately humiliated by my years-long mispronunciation of Camus in Suikoden though. Even though that's another one most people mess up unless they're into philosophy, which I am not. I still feel awkward saying it the right way BUT DARNIT I'M TRYING.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[philstar22]

For a long time, until I learned better, I pronounced Celebrimbor's name with a soft C.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Methos (Highlander)
Ariadne (Inception)
Sha'uri/Sha're, Teal'c (Stargate) - to be fair canon isn't consistent either
Scamander (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) - I keep wanting to call him Scaramander

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

I pronounced Hermoine as Her-moin (rhyme with loin).

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[greghousesgf]

It's supposed to be Az-lan, not Ass-lan, right?

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

I am probably the only person ever to get into Star Wars by reading a bunch of the books first, long before watching any of the movies. So I had a few names and places sort of messed up, which I expected, but by far the worst is Qui-gon Jinn. I mangled his name so badly and for so long I can't even try to pronouce it now and just actively avoid the character altogether.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

If it exists, is not a common name, and I haven't heard it spoken, I've probably mispronounced it.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Forever mentally tripping over if Yu Yu Hakusho is pronounced Yu Yu Ha-ku-sho(u) or Yu Yu Ha-ku-sho(w).

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Not mispronunciation, but people keep inserting H in name Jonathan. No, the short form isn't John, heathens, it's Jon

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

I got into Durarara!! by reading the novels first, and I thought Celty was pronounced with a hard C like how most people pronounce Celtic. Which made sense to me, because she’s specifically Irish(despite having a Scandinavian sounding last name, Sturluson). But then I watched the anime and was surprised to hear it be pronounced “Sell-tee”. Like how the team The Boston Celtics is pronounced here in America.



This is a completely separate thing from mispronunciations that I still find funny, but I remember someone on TV Tropes saying Celty’s last name should be something like Sturlustotter instead of Sturluson, because the “-son” part means “son of”, and the “-stotter” means “daughter of”. You know, because she’s a girl. I know they probably thought that sounded smart or made sense. But like, it’s her last name? It’s not literal? Have they never heard of any girl that has a last name with “-son” at the end? Because that’s honestly incredible.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

The only reason I hope Skies of Arcadia never gets remade is because it would probably be fully voiced, and I reject the official pronunciations of several main characters' names. Fina is supposed to be pronounced Fine-ah, but I read it as Fee-na, which I think fits better with how it's spelled and also sounds much nicer. Apparently most of the English-speaking fandom did, too, because everyone who talks about it pronounces it that way. I pronounce Vyse with the S sounding like a Z, it just sounds better too, don't care. Enrique is also "mispronounced" by the entire English-speaking fandom because it's a real name that the game mispronounces. According to the katakana spelling, the E at the end is silent. No, no it's not. En-reek is not how you're supposed to pronounce that name.

Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

What accents do you really love? Either you find them hot or you just like the sound of them.

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

I love the North Island New Zealand accent, it has got a lovely rhythm and ring to it that the South Island Kiwi accent seems to be missing.

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

Cornish, Welsh, Highland Scottish, French, Italian (all when speaking English)

Geordie, Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Canadian

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

I genuinely don't think there's an accent from the British isles that I don't appreciate on some level

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

Kiwi and South African.

Re: Favorite accents

[philstar22]

Lots of them. Most British and Irish ones, most Australian and New Zealand ones, most Mexican and Central American ones, Brazilian, Spanish, most eastern European ones, and Swedish, Russian, and South African.

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

From the Anglosphere: Lancashire, Received Pronunciation, Texan/classical Southern and the Moonlight Magnolia drawl, also really enjoy Louisiana accents, Trans-Atlantic even though it's fake news.

From other places, speaking in English: German, Swedish, and (at the risk of sounding ignorant) quite a few Asian and African accents. Shame that so many regional accents and dialects are disappearing around the world because English media gets shown with subtitles instead of being dubbed in people's native languages.

Auf Deutsch bin ich in Hessisch und Schwäbisch verliebt. Bayrisch/Österreichisch bekommt ja 'ne ehrenhafte Erwähnung. ;)

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, my favorite accent is standard American (though a a bit of a drawl is very nice too).

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

I just love the sound of Black Country Accents. They're so fun!!!

Kiwi accents are cute (I'm not familiar enough with north/south/any other differentiation that may make it sound different -- I like them all!)

Australian accents are...it depends on my mood lol but they're alright ;)

It's never the accent as much as it's the voice and the person speaking! Re: anyone else speaking English and they may have an accent. Also, as a person who speaks more than just English, I totally feel for people who may have accents in this language, especially when it's difficult to communicate without feeling like you sound like a fool/your actual and cultural vocabulary isn't comprehensive enough in the new language to accurately convey what you're tryinnf to say (aka I promise I'm more eloquent and not an idiot in my own language!)

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

Hot: French*, Japanese* (especially baritone voices; fuck me, daddy), Welsh, Spanish accents can be hot but it's hotter when they speak Spanish; Argentinean Spanish and Venezuelan Spanish

Love the way they speak English: South Asian*, Filipino*, Scottish, New York, New Jersey (I'm a big fan of The Sopranos), Thai*, AAVA (West coast is what I'm most familiar with), all of the Southern accents (every single one)

* I'm from a ESL household and as a kid I worked really hard to have a "typical American accent", wanting to assimilate into being a "model minority" in my very mostly white neighborhood/schools I grew up in. I wanted to major in English, and I went out of my way to correct people's grammar. But as an adult, as I've come to learn that language is complex, and English is a fucking mess of a language too. I also have come to embrace my culture and that includes people who don't speak English "perfectly/well/without an accent". Also, we use accents/dialect to perpetuate a classist and racist mindset that certain accents are the "right"/"proper" way to speak, so I LOVE dialects that don't follow the typical rules of sentence structures. I also love some ESL accents because they speak English way more beautifully than typical English speakers do (British, US). Like, South Asian accents, I'm not good at linguistics so I'm sorry if I'm explaining this wrong, some of them use the fullness of their mouths and tongue to annunciate words and I think it sounds beautiful. But uptight, rigid ass English says it's not proper English. I suppose that's the appeal to some Southern accents as well as French.

TL;DR I'm really high right now so IDK if this makes any sense