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Hardest Systems to Pronounce?
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Felicity Love
Doomheim
#21 - 2013-08-12 01:35:44 UTC
Anything that is obviously the byproduct of Finnish speaking devs and vast quantities of alcohol... like "Uososuokko"...


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Baikur
Doomheim
#22 - 2013-08-12 01:50:48 UTC
Isendeldik just doesn't sound correct when I pronounce it
Holgrak Blacksmith
Prophets of Motav
#23 - 2013-08-12 07:45:27 UTC
Lady Spank wrote:
Black Panpher wrote:
Holgrak Blacksmith wrote:
Bischopt wrote:
My native language allows me to pronounce most difficult names, at least in a non-english way.

Kurniainen is one that's easy for me but seems impossible for all the brits, americans, australians etc.
"Futzchag" is tricky.


Not all Brits - I'm Welsh, and we have to deal with some serious, next level **** here.



Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

I used to live next door to this system IRL


I used to live nearby too, and I can pronounce it in real life Blink


Yeah, I remember having to learn to say this place in welsh lessons in school. You know it's bad when a word has four of the same letter in a row.
William Walker
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#24 - 2013-08-12 08:07:16 UTC
Just wanted to say: there is a system called "Cat" but no "Dog" system. Very disappointing.

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Cyrus Alabel
Azure Wrath
#25 - 2013-08-12 08:50:06 UTC
Vlillirier. Lot of Gal mil pilots could never get that one right.
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2013-08-12 09:12:37 UTC
A few of my previous corp mates had trouble with Madirmilire. I haven't had too much trouble with any system names myself, though.

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Whitehound
#27 - 2013-08-12 09:28:30 UTC
These systems are not only hard to pronounce but also hard to remember. Evil

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Yaturi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2013-08-12 09:31:27 UTC
Espigoure - cause it always feels like you have a bunch of graham crackers crushed up in your mouth when you try to say it
Samyon
Empire Of Dawn
#29 - 2013-08-12 09:46:10 UTC
My vote goes to Scuelazyns in Everyshore. Also worth to mention is Mies because Mies means male in Finnish
Lugalbandak
Doomheim
#30 - 2013-08-12 10:12:27 UTC
Hek i found diffecult

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Inokuma Yawara
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#31 - 2013-08-12 10:44:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Inokuma Yawara
The teeny, tiny font, combined with the strange combination of consonants and vowels, conspired to force me to give up trying to pronounce them and just make up words that approximate what they are. I found this thread interesting enough, however, to take the effort to look more closely at what some of these are and write them down:


It's spelled = I say

Bouryenes = Bogainville

Trossere = Trousers

Vittenyn = Vixenville

Ethernity = Eternity (That one isn't hard, but....)

Brapevilles = Grapeville

There are some more, I say Dumbledore, Frapville, Somerset, Chandelier, etc. etc. etc.

These place names are probably just a bunch of Icelandic words for stuff like: "Trossere" = pencil sharpener in Icelandic. The rest of the world couldn't even know. Right?

I just had a thought! Perhaps the strange Icelandic spellings and pronounciations come from the fact that it's really, really cold up there. So, their teeth are always chattering while they talk, so their words all come out all.... Eyjafjallajökull It's just a theory....

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Whitehound
#32 - 2013-08-12 10:59:37 UTC
Samyon wrote:
My vote goes to Scuelazyns in Everyshore.

Oh, this one is simple. I read it as "school lazyness".

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Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#33 - 2013-08-12 11:14:06 UTC
Sol Kal'orr wrote:


Fun fact: Llanfairpwllgwyn used to be called just that. It means 'church by the white pool' or summin'. The whole 'gyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' part was added in the 19th century to make the train station a tourist attraction for Victorian holidaymakers.


Fun fact: Wikipedia is always right and ogogo definitely is how you spell cave.

#sarcasm
Black Panpher
CastleKickers
Rote Kapelle
#34 - 2013-08-12 11:22:21 UTC
Lady Spank wrote:


I used to live nearby too, and I can pronounce it in real life Blink


Cool I'm first language Welsh, although have hardly spoke any since I moved to the diff.

Do you know Garmon IRL? I only ask because I think I accidentally stalked him IRL driving back from the north the other day! Roll
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#35 - 2013-08-12 11:25:10 UTC
Etchellas wrote:
As a german I find most systems easy to pronounce, for example french and nordic sounding systems.

And as mentioned before most Brits and US citizens i know seem to struggle with systems like Nourvukaiken.
Perhaps because of their limited exposure to foreign languages, with one exception perhaps: spanish.


I like how you've lumped in the British with what appears to be your prejudice against hispanics Blink

Dodixie > Hek
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#36 - 2013-08-12 11:30:18 UTC
FD-MLJ is rather difficult to pronounce.


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Thorn Galen
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#37 - 2013-08-12 11:41:29 UTC
ACE McFACE
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2013-08-12 11:47:18 UTC  |  Edited by: ACE McFACE
Every Minmatar system minus Hek
Every Null sec and WH system
and Cat, because no one seriously thinks someone called a system Cat.

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Chandaris
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#39 - 2013-08-12 15:18:40 UTC
floseswin
raeghoscon
schoorsana
Silivar Karkun
Doomheim
#40 - 2013-08-12 15:52:04 UTC
most part of them are easier to pronounce in spanish, i dunno why. i guess it is because of the easy pronuntiation...
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