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First, plural form of the Taranis (is it Tarani or Taranis') please.

Second, is the Kitsune pronounced as though the second syllable sounds like "soon" or is the "e" not silent?

Also, anyone's take on the good old Harbinger and how it would be properly pronounced as well (does the "g" sound like the one in "messenger" or like the "g" in "guardian")?

These are just a few of several ship names that get pronounced one way or the other. How do you prononce/spell the plural form of them?

Don't know much about pronunciations, but I can give you general rules for plurals!

The plural for Taranis would be Taranises. Why? Because it follows standard English rules and makes things so much easier that way.

(Taranis is originally the name of a Celtic god, and might be Romanized, but that's splitting hairs. Also, it's being applied to a spaceship as a voodoo magic spaceship name, so it's not going to kill anyone if we break a grammatical rule in reference to it.)

At least, that's how I'd edit it internally. If I'd been drinking, I'd accept Taranopode, Taranii, Taraniseseses, or Taranes. But I haven't been drinking (yet).

Taranis.

I actually agree with Jasonidas here..

to refute the idea that it should be Taranii, if i remember correctly, most words in latin that were pluralised with the use of 'ii' ended with 'ius' .. i.e Gladius -> Gladii, Julius -> Julii.

that said, i could be totally wrong. just my 2p.

You are correct: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harbinger

Interesting the OP would use messenger as an example, it's pretty close to harbinger's meaning.

Thank you, it's very interesting. I didn't know that.

But how can any civilization that went through a wormhole and advanced into the future a few thousand years, then lost contact and with it all forms of civilization even know names from their "old earth" ?

Isn't it in the storyline that all 4 cultures originate from the same earth and they all went back to the stoneage to the point where they even had to re-invent everything they once had?

No way that through such a cycle of knowledge and time old stuff like earth gods and such are preserved.

The amarr don't even acknowledge any gods but their own.

It's been established that ship names are translated into the closest English equivalent from whatever the original name would have been. For instance, while it is highly unlikely that the Gallenteans would know who Ares was, it can be assumed that at some point in their past at least one proto-Gallente civilization worshiped a god of war depicted as bringing destruction to his foes and thirsting for battle. Likewise, there aren't likely to be any crows, hawks, falcons, or condors as we know them on either Caldari Prime or New Caldari, but birds that are either similar in nature or symbolism to those listed are almost certain to exist.

I would like to point out that not everything plural in english ends in es. Certain things end in i for plural. Hippopotami for example. I think Taranisi works better... also its cooler because it makes it sound like a dinosaur name. :D

Also theres different pronunciations of Kitsune based on region. Tokyo dialect (what most people learn) omits the u in words that have it alot. So it would be Kits'neh But I believe the non-omitting pronunciation would be kih-tsoo-neh. Remember there is no stress in Japanese, so all syllables are pronounced the same all the time.

And finally, harbinger is pronounced either way, it depends on whether or not you say tomayto or tomahto. I've always said harbing-ger... but then I also still spell certain words with the u (like harbour) because thats how I was taught when I was little. lol

You mean much like how modern day Christianity passes off any other culture's god's as myths? I'm a firm believer that the Amarrian religion is just a hyper-evolved form of any single-god religion we have today.