Qu-Way Nus
Key Nos
Kway Nos
Kay Noes
We all have our preferred pronunciation. And yours is wrong. LOL, just kidding but what I'm hoping is that we can get some official pronunciations of some of the Lore, Names and Locations of Pantheon straight from the Devs so we don't have 4 different ways of saying the same thing and having people confused about them. I'm watching a YouTube video of some guy talking about EQ. And he mentioned he's been saying Qeynos that way for 14 years, and I thought, you've been saying it wrong for 14 years. Hoping VR can get ahead of the struggle and just have a Pod Cast of someone just going through pronouncing the lore, names and locations we might get wrong.
Kittik said:stellarmind said:this is satire right?
Nope. Have you read the lore? Me either, mostly due to not knowing how half the stuff is pronounced.
only the dark myr, elf, dwares, gnomes, ogres and skarr. i don't remember a qeynos. i'd guess it's elven going with 'kae gnohs' for pronounciation. we can just use the 'regional dialect' XD because one could say:
dragon
drae gin
drahgan
drak gone
meh w.e any pronunication will do as long as we associate the word with the same object^.^
Key-nos is how I pronounced it all through the years. But I should probably clarify that I pronounce melee as Malee and not maylay. A fight is a maylay. Swinging a sword isn't really a maylay to me. So I rationalize it by saying I'm malee'ing in the maylay. It just weirds me out when something has two E's and makes an ae sound or ay sound. Like Jeep...you really gotta get in there and get those E's and say JEEEEEEP.
Ok none of this really makes sense I guess, but it's been burned into my head so long I don't like change.
Perhaps some NPCs will speak - and give us the official pronunciation. Even if they do not have voice acting for everything there is precedent for MMOs having it in starter areas and then stopping. If they decide they want it they can probably get this done rather inexpensively - there are various arts and music High Schools where the kids can and do engage in this type of commercial activity legally - for very little money the purpose is educational.
Then again I remember listening to NPCs in LOTRO pronouncing the word Rohirrim (the inhabitants of Rohan - an area of Middle Earth) quite differently from each other.
I've had this exact conversation, about pronunciations, very recently with several friends and it always amusing the variations of how someone thinks a given word should be pronounced. For those who study the roots of languages (romance vs intonational vs germanic) where you have difference in inflection, etc, has an effect on how you pronounce these names.
There was a Youtube video I came across about where Commander Data got his name. Everyone at the reading table was thinking 'dat-ah' where Patrick Stewart first pronunced it as 'day-tah'. The producer then made a rule saying "The first person to say a name will be how that name is pronounced." I'd love to get confirmation about some of the pronunciations in Pantheon, particular Dark Myr as that is a point of contention for some. I go with 'meer' because 'muhr' is just too to close to being a truncated 'mermaid'. Yeah, I know they were aquatic creatures, but 'meer' sounds better...to me.
I always pronounced Qeynos as 'Keh Nos' where it sounds like the ending of the Sub shop Quiznos, even though I ended up saying 'Kweh Nos' even if it's incorrect.
Dark Myr I pronounce as 'Dark Mer' given that they're Dark Mermaids or Dark Mermen. Mer and Myr can be pronounced interchangeably where 'Myr' can be 'Mer' or 'Meer'. However, given they are basically Mermen or as Fragile detailed, 'Mer' means 'Sea' in French it has me lean to 'Mer' as the more official pronounciation.
I'd go as far as call it a Dark Myrmaid (Mermaid) or Dark Myrman (Merman).
but the Y gives it an extra kick. Mer is dull. In french the accent sharpens it a bit, making mer for sea sound a bit more like mare. It is the bastardization of anglicanism that dulls it to mer - like "her". But the good will always pronounce it like mare.
And melee, again from the french, like "M'aidez!" help me! "Mayday mayday!" said the airfighters to be understood. Maylay.
(I think an emergency call in space should be "this is Major Tom" instantly ascribing rank due to the severity of the issue and need for aid in the cold reaches of space and possible futility due to distance by the time the distress call is received)
Intuitively, then, I want to go Meer, for Myr, or Mir. But could it be Mire? dark Mire?
Somehow I want to put a ~ on it. maybe hear it from a native spanish/portugese/latin american speaker :)
dark M~yr! (flamenco stance! *stomp*)
(crustaceons scuttling away making noises like castinettes)
Try here:
https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/7088/how-do-you-pronounce/
bigdogchris said:Official pronunciation of words in lore would be appreciated.
Agreed!!
Iksar said:Try here:
https://www.pantheonmmo.com/content/forums/topic/7088/how-do-you-pronounce/
Noice!!
phil85 said:I vote for Kay Noes or "SONY EQ" which is what the creators chose.
This thread isn't about Qeynos, that was an example of how a common word with an odd spelling and no official pronunciation can lead people to very different ways to say things and potential confusion.