EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion

..can we also start to bash all non-scandinavians who can't pronounce the names from our mythology? Or spell it, for that matter. And then we can put some swedes, danes, norwegians and hell we'll even invite the finns and icelandic scrubs to discuss which of our native versions that is most accurate.

To begin with, we need to remove all the silly icelandic i's that are being added in funky places.
Sleipner, Loke, Mjölner, Oden (if he was in the game), oh and ofc we need to teach people to pronounce the ö so we don't have to hear the despicable Rangarok.. it needs it's proper ök-end tbfh.

..or we could just accept this is an international game, where people pronounce stuff the way that it's normal for them to read it. I know, that's radical tho, ain't it?

Actually, Einhärjar should pronounce the j alright.

actualy its dolan

I think I'm going to keep calling it "Gila" (making use of that "G" in the beginning), because "HEE-la" just sounds dumb.


Also, a little tidbit for ya - I go by "Hudey" Lloyd, not Jude Lloyd.

I was actually shocked to find that I have been spelling and pronouncing the word "ancillary" as "ancilliary" my whole life. Things will never be the same.

Yah, he can come back whining when he's named Mymh, and every damn american keeps calling you "Mimph" or "Meeemph". It always puzzled me when people have letter that isn't pronounced (like Gila, wth, there is a G there, of course we will pronounce it?). Gets even more mad when they start adding letters that isn't even there, hah! Where's the P (or F, for that matter) in my name?

Vanakov isn't even hard, at least I'll cut people some slack, having a name like this.. but in your case.. they must surely just pull your leg for the sake of it, hehe.

The reading is fine. It's the not speaking ancient Hebrew that makes it a bit awkward to pronounce.

That's because the word is actually Abaddon and nothing else.

heh, this is fun.

Abaddon - "a bad one" is pretty close.

Jaguar... that's a south american kitty (well a big one). how do the south americans pronounce that? "haguar"?

And just in every DnD campaign we ever played scimitar got mangled to hell and back.
try "schmentar" (german reading rules) on for size.
do we have any arabic speakers around? and is this their name for the sword or is it a european misstag (deliberate)?

Oh God, wait till everyone realizes that I pronounce words like Huge and Human with a silent "H"