Wuoshi

[Agaxiq]

How is the name pronounced?Is it:Woo-oh-shee?-or-Woo-shee ?agressiv

[Cusashorn]

I think the red names clarified on this a while back. I'll search around to see if I can dig it up.

*EDIT*

hmm. I can't find any matching topics, but in case you're wondering, here's a thread full of red names responding to how things are pronounced in this game.

[Jindrack]

Agaxax@Unrest wrote:

How is the name pronounced?Is it:Woo-oh-shee?-or-Woo-shee ?

The second way, Woo-shee.

[JamesRay]

If the dragon were Japanese, the correct pronunciation would be wu-oh-shi.But he ain't, so it isn't.

[Ama]

JamesRay wrote:

If the dragon were Japanese, the correct pronunciation would be wu-oh-shi.But he ain't, so it isn't.

That's actually how I thought of pronouncing it myself.  Wu-Shi is how I always thought of it which to me is Woo-Shee. 

Have to say the easiest name to pronounce would be Vox. 

[Webin]

He'll always be Yoshi to me.

[Ama]

WebinKaltani wrote:

He'll always be Yoshi to me.

Gotta love Yoshi

One thing i'm curious about is how some dragons come about their names.  For some reason the letter V seems very popular (Venekor, Vymm, Vox).

[Alikari]

Amana wrote:

JamesRay wrote:

If the dragon were Japanese, the correct pronunciation would be wu-oh-shi.But he ain't, so it isn't.

That's actually how I thought of pronouncing it myself.  Wu-Shi is how I always thought of it which to me is Woo-Shee. 

Have to say the easiest name to pronounce would be Vox. 

hehe..  so.. is it vox - box                         vox - voe                         vox - vozive always said voe

[JamesRay]

Well if a Japanese person were trying to pronounce vox, it'd probably sound like "bok-coo-sue" since there isn't a V or X in their alphabet.

Another fun word is "really" which sounds like the "reary" portion of the word dreary.

I went to Japan as an exchange student and hosted one as well back when I was in high school.  We used to have fun telling the exchange students to pronounce words that they don't have all the letter sounds for.  Kind of like Americans trying to roll r's in German or Spanish words, can be hilarious.

[Cusashorn]

JamesRay wrote:

Kind of like Americans trying to roll r's in German or Spanish words, can be hilarious.

I hear that's actually a genetic trait, just like being able to blow bubbles in bubblegum. You either can or you can't.

[Nocturnal Aby]

Heh, maybe for some people, but a lot of it is conditioning.  I know plenty of white people who grew up speaking English, and adapted themselves to Spanish culture for various reasons (living in a Hispanic country for a number of years).  If you were to lift your tongue, you can see a little flap of tissue connecting it to the bottom of your mouth.  For some people, this extends further than norman, and can be "trimmed" back.  This might affect speech in some ways, but I've never heard of person not being able to speak German or Spanish because of their genetic background. Heh, in a lot of ways, English people have the same ancestry as the Germans.

[Zabjade]

My Mom taught me how to roll r's I can do it easily by it's self,  but it harder for me in actual speech. (For some reason I get too much saliva when I try it during speach to trill the r's)

Not that I can speak much Spanish, come to think of it, my Spanish teacher way back in the 7th grade said I seemed to speck Spanish with a French accent, and I never studied French.

Say "Pot 'o Tea" faster and faster until you are tripping over the words and end up doing it.

[Pentolux]

Zabjade wrote:

Not that I can speak much Spanish, come to think of it, my Spanish teacher way back in the 7th grade said I seemed to speck Spanish with a French accent, and I never studied French.

As a completely unscientific and non-factual side note:

Since French tend not to roll the r, speaking Spanish while using a more throad-based pronounciation of the r, often sounds like speaking with a slight French like accent.

As for being able to pronounce certain things, most of the time it is pure conditioning and rather based on your upbringing and your ability or education in early ages concerning the pronounciation of different sounds. There are for example multi-lingual countries, where German and French is spoken and either native speaker has no problems to pronounce the other language's native sounds, such as a rolled or guttural r.

Hope that wasn't too confusing. I'm not a native English speaker and apart of prouncing things right, spelling them and making sense in another languages is different beast all together. 

[Dramadon]

Cusashorn wrote:

JamesRay wrote:

Kind of like Americans trying to roll r's in German or Spanish words, can be hilarious.

I hear that's actually a genetic trait, just like being able to blow bubbles in bubblegum. You either can or you can't.

Actually, its not really known where language development comes from. There is evidence suggesting that every child born is capable of pronouncing all the sounds from all the languages. However, as the child gets older and starts to develop his language skills, the sounds that are not used are lost. There is really not enough evidence to say for sure that this is the case, though. Developmentally speaking, language development is in its prime from about the age of 2 until about 6th grade. Not that that information is much of a news flash, but its why foreign language programs that start in elementary school tend to be more successful at getting kids to speak the language (of course, they don't really learn to read or write it very much).Ok, back to the regularly scheduled thread topic. (And its still pronounced KEY-nos, not QUEY-nos :p)

[Fazzarya]

We always pronounced it:

WHOAH SH*T

Since that was usually the first words to come out when you ported into the zone and she chomped on you in EQ1