[ 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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Comments

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Her name is Hermione.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

? They know? They spelled it the exact same way you did?

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Whoops, except they didn’t, and I didn’t see the difference the first 20 times I looked for some reason.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Mine was Her-me-own.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[ibbity]

I thought it was "Hermy-ony" till book 4 where she's teaching Krum how to say it, which now I think about it was probably on purpose to tell readers how to say her name right lol

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I felt very called out when I read that part (even though I'd only ever "spoken" the name in the privacy of my brain).

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

I read it as Her-moyn the whole time I was into HP as a young teen (i.e. the early 00s).

Also, for some truly baffling reason my dumb ass decided Voldemort was pronounced Vold-er-mort. I honestly don't even know with that one. I think up until a certain age I just randomly decided how I thought a name should sound and then proceeded to not give a shit whether I was right or not.

I may have also called Dumbledore Dum-bluh-dor. Yup.

Rolling my eyes at my thirteen-year-old self so hard rn.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Our translation of this name is really different for historical reasons (I struggle with most Greek-originated English words. I really can't deal with English pronunciation of "ceramics", for example.), so I was baffled when I first heard name Hermione. How do you even get this "ah" sound, why????!

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Where is there an “ah” in the English pronunciation of Hermione? They pronounce it her-My-oh-nee.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Good question. I feel like I’ve heard it be mispronounced as “Her-my-ah-knee” at some point, but I don’t know how that mispronunciation happens.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

DA
The ah sound is the her-MY-oh-nee. The MY has a "ah" sound (maybe the final H is misguiding here?).
Look at the wiki for the Greek Hermione on the pronunciation part:
Hermione (/hɜːrˈmaɪ.əni/;[1] Greek: Ἑρμιόνη [hermi.ónɛː]). The Greek pronunciation doesn't have the "ah" sound that is clearly written in the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) for the English Hermione as A.

I'm not the Anon making the previous comment, but I'm from Europe and we too use the Greek pronunciation for the Greek gods where I'm from. I've also studied classic Greek and Latin at school. The English pronunciation of Hermione is always funny to me because from my POV you're making the name sound more "complicated" than what it actually is.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, you’re talking about diphthongs. Carry on.

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

YEP, that's it! The Greek pronunciation read everything as monophthongs, while the English pronunciation has that diphthong in herMIone. Hope it makes sense!

Re: Fandom (mis)pronunciations

[(Anonymous)]

It does! Before, all I could think of was "Herm-AH-oh-nee, like an American Southern accent.