Proposal Discussion Now we have comms...is it Acky-hot or Achoo? Er-AH-nin or EHR-annin?

Turjan

Turjan
Come on FD, we need an Official Guide to System Name Pronunciations! :)

It was all well and good in the old Elite days - Ayethi could've been I-ETH-ee, or I-thee...Facece might have been said as FACE-ee, or fak-ETCH-ee...Ququve could've been pronounced CUE-CUE-vee or it might even have rhymed with 'groovy'...

It never mattered before because previous Elites were only text on a screen. The system names were never actually spoken.

But now...
Now we have voice comms and we have multiplayer! And that means people inevitably needing to mention system names to each other. And we're finding that we don't all call those systems the same thing :S

So here's the deal - does Frontier Developments have an 'official' pronunciation lexicon (at least for core systems)? Or is it all going to remain one big "come as you are" verbal party?

I recall a Teamspeak chat rcently with my FGE friends where we tried to work out how Acihaut should be pronounced. In the end we decided we might try calling it 'Atchoo' for a while, spoken like a sneeze, because...well, why not?

I've certainly seen quite a few Elite YouTube vids where the maker has stumbled over how to say certain system names - I feel it would clear up a lot of confusion if FD came up with an 'official' system pronunciation guide! :D

Of course, it doesn't empirically matter one way or the other - but the Elite Dangerous galaxy IS Frontier's baby, so it's only logical we ask them how to say their baby's name, isn't it? :cool:
 

DeGrimmy

DeGrimmy
Well, I've always pronounced Eranin like "Errand" and just removing the D and adding the "in". I watched the latest Q&A stream with Adam Woods and Michael Brookes and Adam said "Er-annin"...

As for Acihaut, I'd probably pronounce it "Atch-e-oh" or "Ass-e-oh" (forgive the crass word there... it was the only way I could describe it!) for that French sounding name. Facece would be "Fak-etch-ee" or "Fass-ess" even. Ayethi would be "I-eth-ee" and Ququve would probably be "Coo-Coove" or maybe even "Coo-coo-vay".

It's an interesting idea to see how others pronounce it. :D
 

alpharesearch

A
Maybe it would be good to add this to the description of the system to the galaxy map.
Something like in dictionaries: Erranin /er·ran·in/ˈerənin/ˈɛrənin/[er-uhn in] (using the "Errand" with d removed and add in).
I'm not dictionary writer and I don't use dictionaries much and I just guess all this. But I think the galaxy map is the right place for this. It would be very nice to have a little icon to click and it speaks the name, this would resolve all the issues.
 

Vingtetun

Vingtetun
The official manner in which the names are said is, co-incidentally, the way that I say them. If anyone would like to confirm or argue those pronunciations, my Anaconda is usually parked up at the High Intensity Conflict zone at Dahan 3 and can add punctuation to the pronunciation.

And yes - that is "Day-un".

:D
 

Iain M Norman

Iain M Norman
Can there ever be consensus on the pronunciation of any word?

If upon saying the word someone understands you enough to correct you then the job of the word was effective I'd say.
 

Ayo

Ayo
Looks like Aky-hoort (Achihaut) to me.

Many of the names are real stars that will already have an official pronunciation, just need to look it up. For everything else, I suspect it is up to the community to agree on these things :)

Edit: We could always come up with lists of different ways to pronounce these names and have a vote each week on a particular name. Call it 'Star Pronunciation of the Week' :)
 
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CMDR Moortz

CMDR Moortz
aha, excellent thread.

I always enjoyed listening to the predominately US players mangling the names of towns in Europe when playing WWIIOL...

"We're flying over Bruggers, then heading to Kernokkey ":eek:

We could usually work out what they meant. It was always interesting whenever we got over s'Hertogenbosch.

For what it's worth, I'd say -

Lave - L ah v (like love but with an 'ah' sound
Eranin - Err-a-nin
Dahan - Dah-han
Acihaut - Ass-ee-hoe
:D
 

DeGrimmy

DeGrimmy
Ayo said:
Edit: We could always come up with lists of different ways to pronounce these names and have a vote each week on a particular name. Call it 'Star Pronunciation of the Week' :)
Click to expand...

A new feature on the weekly newsletter, perhaps? ;)
 

D'Kaeth

D'Kaeth
I vote for letting the Americans define the pronunciations. Otherwise it is going to sound funny.



...please don't kick me out of the game.
 

PC_BIL

PC_BIL
I swear English is the worst language to read procedurally generated names, I'd never get "Acihaut" when hearing "Ass-ee-hoe" :) I expect plenty of names would sound exactly the same.
In a more phonetic language that problem doesn't usually exist.
Just for fun, an example (Italian, but works for Malay, Japanese, etc):
Acihaut -> Ah-chee-ha-oo't
see, no letters are wasted :D
 

alpharesearch

A
Iain M Norman said:
Can there ever be consensus on the pronunciation of any word?

If upon saying the word someone understands you enough to correct you then the job of the word was effective I'd say.
Click to expand...


I think this works best if you stay in one small part of the world and you are the only one that has is wrong and everybody else can correct you... but if you have people all over the world this changes things... I speak German and English and I know a French guy and I'm sure everybody has a different way to pronounce it... I guess it depends who corrects the most and that sticks? Just like in the movie Idiocracy with the Fuddruckers (a restaurant in the US) name evolution going to Futtbuckers and in the end to a word that can be used in a 13+ Movie in USA (UK 15+) but to hard for this Forum: something bottom plus "bees and flowers"... just watch the movie. Or we may end up with another Mitsubishi Pajero.
 
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alpharesearch

A
PC_BIL said:
I swear English is the worst language to read procedurally generated names, I'd never get "Acihaut" when hearing "Ass-ee-hoe" :) I expect plenty of names would sound exactly the same.
In a more phonetic language that problem doesn't usually exist.
Just for fun, an example (Italian, but works for Malay, Japanese, etc):
Acihaut -> Ah-chee-ha-oo't
see, no letters are wasted :D
Click to expand...

I agree with your statement, English has so many words were spelling and pronunciation don't match. It is a very simple language compared to other languages. I know only German and English plus I did try to learn Spanish and Japanese - and coming from German English was very easy. Spanish was not to bad but Japanese is so different and don't know where to start.
 

Calaban

Calaban
Acihaut is clearly pronounced "icy-hot"

I bootes is pronounced "ee boo-ah-tees"


Hey, but in the end system names will be prounounced as varied as the station Announcers
:rolleyes:

Just stay away from that Weird Tobbaco
 
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