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[ SECRET POST #5508 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5508 ⌋

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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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What fandom names or terms did/do you mispronounce?

Which mispronunciations in your fandoms bug you the most?

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

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.

I've been angry at Chinese mispronunciation for a long time, because of Dynasty Warriors and some terrible, terrible, awful, very bad names. No, it's not Cow Pee. That the official english translation that the dub actors used.

Now I only play Koei games in the original language, which is still hilariously wrong but because of Japanese reading of the same kanji vs english mangling. DW9 finally had an actual Chinese script with proper voicing so I could finally hear so many names spoken correctly for the first time, it's breathtaking.

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.

Wait, how is Camus supposed to be pronounced? It's not the way it looks?

(to be fair Suikoden has a lot of confusing names and since no one had voices until V...or was it IV? I only remember voices in V...well, no one was saying names aloud)