I never noticed this until today
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cool! I've actually been to Inter Astra before, and yeah, that display table with the holograms is pretty neat. You can totally cycle through all the different ships using that control. It's a great way to get a closer look at each one without having to navigate through a bunch of menus.
The last time I used the holo display it cycled to the most iconic ship of the series and proudly announced it as “the Cobra Marks Three” (or possibly “the Cobra Marx Three”) at which point I did a little shake of my head and wondered who had let that slip through.
It’s like having the Millennial Falcon or Starship Enterprises
It’s like having the Millennial Falcon or Starship Enterprises
The real question is, how did it pronounce "Cobra"? Did it say it the way everyone says it? Or the way David Braben says it? (for some reason he says "Cob-Rah", and I have no idea why).The last time I used the holo display it cycled to the most iconic ship of the series and proudly announced it as “the Cobra Marks Three” (or possibly “the Cobra Marx Three”) at which point I did a little shake of my head and wondered who had let that slip through.
It’s like having the Millennial Falcon or Starship Enterprises
Because he is English, not American.
What is the correct phonetic pronunciation of the word 'cobra'?
Answer (1 of 2): American : cow-bruh with the cow rhyming with slow and low not a lady bull. British : cobb-ruh In this example the British pronunciation follows the general rule of thumb that a vowel followed by a single consonant then a vowel is long, indeed this rule is the essence of the si...
"American : cow-bruh with the cow rhyming with slow and low not a lady bull.
British : cobb-ruh
In this example the British pronunciation follows the general rule of thumb that a vowel followed by a single consonant then a vowel is long, indeed this rule is the essence of the silent e at the end of a word so that ‘run’ would become’rune’. To keep the vowel short, the consonant is doubled, as in ‘running’.
This is the same with ‘zebra’ (American : zee-bruh; British zebb-ruh)
Two consonants implies the vowel is short, cobb-ruh and zebb-ruh
In principle, this rule should also apply to ‘project’ (Am : proe-ject; Br proj-ect) and yogurt (Am : Yoe-gurt, Br : yogg-urt) as the single consonant should mean a long vowel. But the British buck the system and pronounce it with a short vowel.
Conclusion 1 : The Brits are right and the Yanks are wrong for cobra and zebra, the Yanks are right and the Brits are wrong for project and yogurt.
Conclusion 2 : If both Americans and British followed the rules of thumb, these would become proper rules which could be learned and everyone would be happy.
Please note that neither ‘both’ nor ‘proper’ follow the above rules while follow, rule, these and happy do."
"Krait" should be pronounced "Krite" (rhyming with "kite"), too. That's due to its Indian derivation. The common name "krait" is from Hindi (करैत karait), which is perhaps ultimately derived from the Sanskrit word (काल kāla), which means "black". It is also called as "கட்டுவிரியன்" in Tamil, a common name given to the genus Bungarus.
Oh, and while we're at it "Asp" is a single word (a kind of snake) rhyming with "clasp" and not some weird abbreviation "ASP" (god knows what that would be meant to stand for), and "Sol" is the star of the Solar System, to rhyme with "loll" nd not SOL which is an abbreviation for being s... out of luck.
David Attenborough must be American then...Because he is English, not American.
What is the correct phonetic pronunciation of the word 'cobra'?
Answer (1 of 2): American : cow-bruh with the cow rhyming with slow and low not a lady bull. British : cobb-ruh In this example the British pronunciation follows the general rule of thumb that a vowel followed by a single consonant then a vowel is long, indeed this rule is the essence of the si...www.quora.com
"American : cow-bruh with the cow rhyming with slow and low not a lady bull.
British : cobb-ruh
In this example the British pronunciation follows the general rule of thumb that a vowel followed by a single consonant then a vowel is long, indeed this rule is the essence of the silent e at the end of a word so that ‘run’ would become’rune’. To keep the vowel short, the consonant is doubled, as in ‘running’.
This is the same with ‘zebra’ (American : zee-bruh; British zebb-ruh)
Two consonants implies the vowel is short, cobb-ruh and zebb-ruh
In principle, this rule should also apply to ‘project’ (Am : proe-ject; Br proj-ect) and yogurt (Am : Yoe-gurt, Br : yogg-urt) as the single consonant should mean a long vowel. But the British buck the system and pronounce it with a short vowel.
Conclusion 1 : The Brits are right and the Yanks are wrong for cobra and zebra, the Yanks are right and the Brits are wrong for project and yogurt.
Conclusion 2 : If both Americans and British followed the rules of thumb, these would become proper rules which could be learned and everyone would be happy.
Please note that neither ‘both’ nor ‘proper’ follow the above rules while follow, rule, these and happy do."
I like the Load Commander (Y/N) at the bottom of the rotating ship. Nice little touch that!
I'm with Attenborough on "Cobra". I had literally never heard anyone say "Cobb-Rah" until David Braben and I have yet to hear ANYONE ELSE say it that way either.
But this is pulling the thread off topic, it was about the Inter Astra table.
This seems to be rather common on the internet with three letter words, eg the contraction of "amplifier", "amp", is often butchered into AMP.
AMP is adenosine monophosphate.
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| Substantive | ||
|---|---|---|
| Asp = Asp Viper. In German "Aspisviper". In Latin "Vipera aspis". |
David Attenborough is not American but his TV Programs are all marketed to USA for absolute stacks of cash ($ not £) and the BBC (a public broadcaster) who host David's programs hold the mighty cash more important than proper pronunciation to keep us Brits happy!
There is a 'How it's Made' TV program for one of his series, that shows David being 'coached' in USA-Speak.... (pronunciation)
o7 
Personally I think English is a fantastic language, though one drawback being is that you can't read a word and be sure how it's pronounced...
David's name is pronounced "Boaty McBoatface".
There is variation of pronunciation within the UK.
Even within England.
In order of correctness the varieties are:-
- Local to you.
- Recieved Pronunciation which used to be known as BBC English until they started using accents and subtitles.
- Other regional, traditionally more than a couple of days walk from home.
It's a reference back to the 1984 original loading screen with its rotating vector-drawn Cobra.
I'm glad it's my native language and I didn't have to learn it as an adult. I'd have to get my head around stuff like this:
RED - the colour
READ - past tense as in "yesterday I read a book", pronounced just like RED
READ - present tense, "I can read"
REED - a plant, pronounced just like present-tense READ
"you can't read a word and be sure how it's pronounced..." pronounced as "you can't REED a word and be sure how it's pronounced..." - tweak the grammar/tense a bit and you get "yesterday you couldn't have RED a word"...