Just so you commentators know, it's not a "kit-soon." It's a "kit-soon-eh." A little tidbit, a kitsune is a Japanese fox spirit. It's also the Japanese word for fox.

Ne-rd

Gila - HEE-la

Scimitar - SIM-it-ar

Abbadon - Abba-don

Gila - HEE-la

clearly its "Jyla"

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abaddon A-Bad-Don

I also like the US vs British pronunciation of Jaguar "Jag-wahr" vs "Jag-yoo-er

Scimitar - SIM-it-ar

Just so you commentators know, it's not a "kit-soon." It's a "kit-soon-eh." A little tidbit, a kitsune is a Japanese fox spirit. It's also the Japanese word for fox.

Scimitar - SIM-it-ar

Abbadon - Abba-don

Gila - HEE-la

Scimitar - SIM-it-ar

Abbadon - Abba-don

Yeah, because pronunciation is famously static. It won't change at all in the next few thousand years.

I love when people pronounce Abbadon "ab-add-on." It makes me realize most people on the intertubes can't read.

Einherji - its a SILENT j!

Clearly my name is Vanakov, not Vanknakov

Quiet Vankanov McLanvanar!




I've always had trouble with Exequror, it just never seems to come out quite right. Gallente is also commonly mispronounced . Its Gal-en-tay, not Gal-ent or Gal-en-tee

Quiet Vankanov McLanvanar!

Actually it's "SHKIMMY"

I love when people pronounce Abbadon "ab-add-on." It makes me realize most people on the intertubes can't read.

I love when people pronounce Abbadon "ab-add-on." It makes me realize most people on the intertubes can't read.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abaddon A-Bad-Don

I also like the US vs British pronunciation of Jaguar "Jag-wahr" vs "Jag-yoo-er

heh, this is fun.

Abaddon - "a bad one" is pretty close.

Jaguar... that's a south american kitty (well a big one). how do the south americans pronounce that? "haguar"?

And just in every DnD campaign we ever played scimitar got mangled to hell and back.
try "schmentar" (german reading rules) on for size.
do we have any arabic speakers around? and is this their name for the sword or is it a european misstag (deliberate)?

..can we also start to bash all non-scandinavians who can't pronounce the names from our mythology? Or spell it, for that matter. And then we can put some swedes, danes, norwegians and hell we'll even invite the finns and icelandic scrubs to discuss which of our native versions that is most accurate.

To begin with, we need to remove all the silly icelandic i's that are being added in funky places.
Sleipner, Loke, Mj+¦lner, Oden (if he was in the game), oh and ofc we need to teach people to pronounce the +¦ so we don't have to hear the despicable Rangarok.. it needs it's proper +¦k-end tbfh.

..or we could just accept this is an international game, where people pronounce stuff the way that it's normal for them to read it. I know, that's radical tho, ain't it?

ngga please icelandic is nearly identical to ancient norse, you danes, norwegians and swedes are the scrubs in this scenerio
our pronunciations and spellings are far more accurate and superior to yours !!

Oh God, wait till everyone realizes that I pronounce words like Huge and Human with a silent "H"

No. The origins go even further back than that, we'd have to involve the german folktraditions (i.e. old German) to get it more accurate. The "problem" we face here is that the most famous of the older compilations, happens to be icelandic. Given that, it's certainly a possibility that Iceland managed to maintain the old language we spoke on mainland, before our fugitives and scum fled to the isle over there (it's actually worse than the Australian situation, where prisoners were deported. We had murderers and thiefs that fled to Iceland.. and people who tried to avoid certain death, haha).

TL;DR there's a possility the "true" (if there's such a thing) pronounciation, would have more similarities with old German, than with old Icelandic. I'll give you one thing tho; even tho the oldest norse mythology appears on mainland, and even tho Iceland was populated by people actually coming from mainland, there's an obvious risk that the mainland languages have been more tainted over the years.

Edit; Oh and this makes it even more fun, when you realise how most of the people that is so anal about pronounciations.. are often English-speaking, or Americans, and irony is, as pointed out above, the Germans would have more 'right' to explain the 'proper' pronounciation. If anyone, non-scandinavian, that is.

Oh God, wait till everyone realizes that I pronounce words like Huge and Human with a silent "H"