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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 17:21:00 -
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It's not Charon like "ch" = chalk or "ch" = cherry
It's pronounced "kair-on", as in "Cher" = Kerr in "Kerry"
Care-on would be a slightly exaggerated version of it. But it's not a soft ch, it's a hard ch. As in Chemistry, Chameleon etc.
Just so you can now resume sleeping at night, and all.
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 17:37:00 -
[2]
 Originally by: Motorcycle Emptiness
are you american?
Nope, English, but I can tell you it's a hard "ch" not a soft one :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades
The deceased entered the underworld by crossing the Acheron ferried across by Charon (kair'-on), who charged an obolus, a small coin for passage,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)
Charon (shair'-ən or kair'-ən (key), IPA /ˈʃɛərən, ˈkɛərən/, Greek Χάρων), discovered in 1978,
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/charon.html
Pronunciation:
kair'-uhn
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 17:38:00 -
[3]
Originally by: Nicholas Barker
Vocal ****, close relative of the Gramma ****.
How do you say minmatar correctly?
I pronounce it "min mat-arr"
or "min m'tar"
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 17:59:00 -
[4]
Originally by: Nero Scuro
Charon, along with Chimaera! Nobody can pronounce those two it seems!
IT'S KAI-RON AND KAI-MER-A!!
I say it right :P
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 18:00:00 -
[5]
Originally by: Nero Scuro
Charon, along with Chimaera! Nobody can pronounce those two it seems!
IT'S KAI-RON AND KAI-MER-A!!
I see it more of a kair-on rather than a kai (kai rhyming with eye, and kair rhyming with bear/care, just slightly shorter)
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 18:13:00 -
[6]
Originally by: Neon Genesis
Sharon 
It's Karen!
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 20:27:00 -
[7]
What was the boat called? The one that took the dead from one side to the other?
I want to name my salvager that
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 22:52:00 -
[8]
Originally by: Firane
Ummm....
Chemistry and Chameleon have silent h's.
yes so it's a "hard" c, (or ch), as I said.
As opposed to say, cyprus which has a soft "c", or Charlie which has a soft "ch".
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 22:55:00 -
[9]
I think also Cerberus is meant to be pronounced with a hard c (as in kerberus) but I'm not sure. It's alternate spelling is apparently Kerberos.
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.03.31 23:20:00 -
[10]
Originally by: Kylar Renpurs
I blame the english language and it's pity attempts to simulate other languages.
that would be pitiful, I assume?
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.04.01 08:45:00 -
[11]
Originally by: Kasak Black
Some people say "Zel-lot" others say "Zee-lot". I personally say things how the **** I like. Probally why I'm not an FC.
"Primary target is that thing over there, caracel"
"Cara what"
"Like the merry-go-round?"
oh god, there used to be someone in my old corp that pronounced Ibis as ib-iss
that used to drive me up the flippin' wall!
I used to call them caracels, like the merry go round, until someone shouted at me on TS and I looked more closely at the spelling 
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.04.01 08:47:00 -
[12]
Originally by: nickky01
and no, you didn't "invent" the english language, america did. you just added the letter "U" to a bunch of words that didn't need it
We invented America 
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.04.01 08:48:00 -
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Originally by: Ehrine Ashbark
Edited by: Ehrine Ashbark on 01/04/2007 08:34:45
Originally by: Akita T
What drives me crazy is that Charon is the son of Nyx and Erebus.
So, why is a Caldari freighter named after the son of the Gallente Mothership and Titan ? 
It's not. I was bothered by that myself seeing as the Caldari tend to name their ships after animals (mythical or otherwise). Seems there's a type of "Tailless Whip Scorpion" called Charon. Seeing as that is a type of animal I suspect somehow the ship is named after that rather then the Greek mythology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amblypygid_genera
That's a bit obscure, whereas it being a freighter, and being a ship of the dead / captain / driver / pilot of a ship that ferries things, the mythological one makes more sense to me...
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