Eryk Davis Ester
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This is the official thread to debate how to pronounce the names of your favorite Legion characters and their planets!
Personally, I favor:
Gim = sounds like "Jim" Thom = sounds link "Tom" Jan = sounds like "yawn" Ayla = rhymes with "Layla" Tinya = like "Tina" with a 'y'
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Gim = sounds like "Jim" Thom = sounds like "Tom" Jan = sounds like "Jan" (as in Jan Brady) Ayla = rhymes with "Layla" Tinya = like it sounds (TIN'/ya)
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quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Here's one that always fuels debates.
Is it Dark'seed' or Dark'side'?
I imagine since the cartoon, most people favor "Dark' SIDE" (isn't that how they said it in "Superfriends" too?)-- I used to think "Dark'seed" until "Cosmic Odyssey" when Orion said something like, "I tend to see the DARK SIDE of things..."
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But this got me thinking, you could even have the "y" in Tinya & Ayla a separate syllable - as in Tin-ee-a or A-ee-la. I prefer the more simple interpretations, though.
Here's another: is it TAS-mia or Tas-MI-a? Or something else?
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Aside from noting my always saying "Ayla" as EYE-luh, I'll note an amusing sidebar:
Sidne Gail Ward's "Legion of Super-Gamblers" is a get-together each Summer in Las Vegas for a long fan weekend. She's said that one of the most amusing (or jarring) aspects of that event is to have other Legion fans in close proximity ... and to have them pronounce the Legionnaires' names, without a second thought, in ways YOU would have never thought to do.
Why do you think I've missed that soiree myself? {rueful smile}
[ July 17, 2003, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: Greybird ]
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Somebody had to do it, but I gotta agree with Greybird...
Ayla = EYE-luh
the rest...
Gim = Jim Garth = Garth Thom = Tom Jan = Jan (like the Brady) Darkseid = Dark Side (like the force) Tinya = TIN-yuh Tasmia = Taz-MEE-ah Querl = Squirrel but without the S Bgtzl = Big-TIZ-el
I can't remember Gates' proper name right now, but that probably needs a little discussion too (and his home planet Vryga or something like that).
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Grey, I think we are the only ones who think EYE-la. Maybe we're just more enlightened. ;-)
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Jack Kirby allegedly pronounced it "Dark Side." He seems to have deliberately chosen a German-looking spelling ("seid" could be pronounced either "zide" or "zite").
As for two of the others, I favor the hard "g" for "Gim" and "Eye-la."
Gates' real name, as I recall, is T'jullk M'rasz. I suspect one probably needs a bug-like mouth to pronounce it correctly. (It probably has a few "clicks" we can't make.) But a humanized guess would be "tah-JOOLK more-AZZ" [or "more ass," if you're so inclined].)
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Eryk Davis Ester
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I picked up "Brawl" for Braal from the neat little DC Direct skit they used to have on the DC page.
I'll never accept Why-nath, however.
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