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Pix Severus
Empty You
#21 - 2016-05-17 01:05:46 UTC
How do you pronounce Jita?

I've always used "jeetah", however, in the Clear Skies movie, one of the characters pronounces it as "jittah".

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Memphis Baas
#22 - 2016-05-17 01:31:03 UTC
cherberus
orsuler
nofti koo
anna theema
ar shat
jeetah
i bis
Tisiphone Dira
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2016-05-17 01:43:39 UTC
It's pronounced gee-la

There once was a ganker named tisi

A stunningly beautiful missy

To gank a gross miner

There is nothing finer, cept when they get all pissy
lollerwaffle
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#24 - 2016-05-17 06:23:51 UTC
The hard C pronunciation of Cerberus sounds weird when you shorten it, 'OMG it's a HML curb'

Although, I guess the upside is that 'curbstomping' can be literally getting stomped with Cerburii
Loucxious Leopold
Dredge Nation
#25 - 2016-05-17 06:35:09 UTC
It is amazing to see how English morphs and changes to the needs of the user. This discussion reminds me of the Monte Python skit where a fellow had a name pronounced Thruntwarbler Mangrove, but spelled it Luxury Yacht!
Adarian Makaan
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#26 - 2016-05-17 08:24:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Adarian Makaan
Tisiphone Dira
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2016-05-17 08:50:07 UTC
If it's Greek then what's the plural form?

There once was a ganker named tisi

A stunningly beautiful missy

To gank a gross miner

There is nothing finer, cept when they get all pissy
Sustrai Aditua
Intandofisa
#28 - 2016-05-17 09:38:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Sustrai Aditua
I'm dizzy. I need to sit down. I am sitting down.

In Latin the C gets the hard K-ish sound. So, yeah, the reference to the Boston Basketball team gets passed around a lot. Caesar...(Kai-sar) named them the Celts (kelts). He was Roman so...it'd get his pronunciation. I have no idea what drives the arrogance of my people to butcher things like this, then claim they're right ... just because it's them, I guess.

Same with the parts of the brain, I imagine. Cerebellum. Cerebrum. . . except in the US OF COURSE - and I'm pretty sure in the UK at this point. Lord knows how they've trashed subject/verb agreement.

Manchester United have... "Wait. It's just one team. It's singular. It'd be 'Manchester United has...."

"No. We like to think of the team as being made up of a group of people so it's plural."

"So, what you like to think gets to rewrite the rules of English...."

"Smile"

(actual conversation here on this forum)

SO...since there are no RULES anymore, pronounce it how you damn-well please.

If we get chased by zombies, I'm tripping you.
Tiddle Jr
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2016-05-17 11:14:37 UTC
[ ʹsɜ:b(ə)rəs ].

"The message is that there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know" - CCP
Tiddle Jr
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#30 - 2016-05-17 11:15:23 UTC
Tisiphone Dira wrote:
If it's Greek then what's the plural form?

from Greek - Kerberos

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David Therman
#31 - 2016-05-17 11:21:19 UTC
Vlillirier? P
Terquil
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#32 - 2016-05-17 12:03:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Terquil
Tiddle Jr wrote:
Tisiphone Dira wrote:
If it's Greek then what's the plural form?

from Greek - Kerberos


Latin is Cerberus, greek would be Kerberos

Cerberus was the three headed, greek hellhound, the overseer of the underworld Portal.

Plural form is then Cerberi
Memphis Baas
#33 - 2016-05-17 14:33:06 UTC
Cerberus is the Latin adaptation of the Greek Kerberos, so Cerberus follows the Latin pronunciation rules.

C is pronounced K in Latin when it's followed by anything other than e or i. Caesar is an example, and that's why they do the ae, in order to force the Kaiser pronunciation. However ce or ci are pronounced che or chi in Latin, for example la dolce vita.

Thus Cerberus is Cherberus.
Pix Severus
Empty You
#34 - 2016-05-17 14:44:30 UTC
If the C word gets posted any more times, you're going to summon it, you know.

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