Galnet News needs your help - How is Reorte pronounced?
- Thread starter Kulzar
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It's probably Irish Gaelic in which case it is pronounced ' Bob'.
As an experiment I went to http://www.ivona.com/ for text to speech
The American voice re-ort
French voice re-ort-e (best to try it yourself to hear the difference)
British Re-or-te
The American voice re-ort
French voice re-ort-e (best to try it yourself to hear the difference)
British Re-or-te
My initial preference would be "Ray-ort" but I went with "ree-ort" in the poll.
I say "rourt" as in "court".
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I go with "Ree-ort", but then I have a completely made up explanation for it: Captain Reorte (pronounced correctly as Ray-or-tay) was a hero in one of the wars in Sol system centuries ago. It was only natural that a system would be named after him later on. Unfortunately the settlers of that system didn't know their history and didn't know the language, so they got the pronunciation wrong. To this day educated men and women insist on the original pronunciation whilst locals furiously "correct" them.
That I came up with this may show that I spent way too much time jumping in and out of Reorte when I was starting up.
That I came up with this may show that I spent way too much time jumping in and out of Reorte when I was starting up.
That's about right, as Americans see the "te" and naturally drop the e (treats it as silent).
Dialects make it really more confusing though: locally we have a town called Martinez. If a person was from CA, for example, it'll be in pronounced in Spanish form. Locally it is pronounced as it's spelled (Martin - ez).
So the variations in pronunciation will be more on dialect than anything else.
