quote:Originally posted by Sketch Lad: FWIW, I *love* Australian accents! I lived in Australia as a kid, and developed the perfect accent, but I can only vaguely do it now. I like accents, in general; Southern, New York, Chicago, etc... In the NW of the US, we don't really have any particular accent, just plain US English.
quote:Originally posted by Caliente: Dude, it's true though. I live in California and we don't have accents.
And, also, I <3 accents too!! Always wanted one. But, from first person perspective, no one ever thinks they have an accent so... yeah.
HAHAHAHAHAHA - You don't have accents? Sure you do... outrageous American accents.
quote:Originally posted by legionadventureman: b) I hope everybody will like the Aussie accent, coz i plan on sticking around for a long time to come!
Me too! But remember - we don't have accents. Everyone else does but us.
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Could you help me with the pronunciation of some names from the Legion universe? I've always wondered what the actual pronunciation is and whether I'm pronouncing them correctly and didn't find a similar topic in the forum.
Winath: Is it Wine-ath or Win-ath? I think I've heard it pronounced both ways in the cartoon.
Luornu: LOO-ornu or Lu-OR-nu?
Colu: COL-u or Co-LOO?
Nura: NOO-ra or NYU-ra?
Mysa: Mee-ssa, Mee-za, My-ssa, My-za? (MY as in my god!)
Ayla: Aye-la or Eye-la?
Gim: Soft or hard "G"?
Thom: Tom or Th-om?
Tasmia: TAS(Z)-mia or Tas(z)-MEE-a?
BGZTL: I think I've heard it pronounced Bugz-tall but I usually pronounce it b-g-z-t-l without any audible vowels.
Projectra: Someone once called her PRO-jeck-tra, instead of Projectra as in "projector". What's the correct one?
Shvaughn: I know the name is Irish. Is it Shawn, Sean or Sh-V-aughn?
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I tend to agree with Sketch and Vee, but I differ from the pack on Mysa. To me, she rhymes with Liza (as in Minelli. not that I'm a fan).
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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Is there a red-neck section of Wine-ath named Beer-ath?
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Actually, the rednecks call it Moonshinath.
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Once, many years ago there was a brief chance we could have a "Winath-fest" in a Greek island. It certainly would have been a "Wine-ath"-fest!
The other topics answered practically all my questions (half of the names' pronunciations seem to be a matter of preference). Except for Projectra, but I guess it's PRO-jectra.
In a Con in Engalnd I attended in 93, KC Karlson pronounced Bgztl "Bugz-tall" but that's also a matter of choice.
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Ok, after watching the episode on Smallville and reading the posts which followed, it has dawned on me that not all of us pronounce Legion names the same. In an effort to clear that up, this thread is dedicated to correcting that.
I'll start with mine...
Imra
I've always pronounced it I'm-ra
It seems in Smalville it was different Em-ra?
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Hey, don't feel bad, PG. I will start a thread because i don't see anything on it, and someone will post about a thread two forums over and i feel like a) and idiot for not knowing about it and b) a jerk for wasting bandwith and costing these guys money.
And i have always pronounced it like In and ra, like the cheer rah rah, so, i get Imrah, of a sort.
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