Tired of saying names wrong ... PLEASE HELP!

Who wishes they would, whenever first mentioning a character in a novel or other written form, put the correct pronuciation in ( )?

To me that makes so much sense. Once you start saying something one way and then you hear it in the movie or by the author or something, you feel like a gimp.

I mean imagine how many people are saying "Darth Plagueis " wrong right now. I say it (PAL-e-JUS) probably wrong, but it would help if I knew the correct way.

This is not the first time either. With all the wierdo alien names and planets out there this would help a great deal in my opinion.

Who agrees?

 

Hm, I've been pronouncing it "plague-is". *shrug*

Yeah, I've had this discussion several times with assorted friends. The conversation that sums it up, though, is from about 8 years ago:

me, impersonating a star wars alien: "Hi, my name is unpronouncable by humans, so just call me Bob."

Why does nobody except Wookiees ever do this?

 

I called Talon Karrde, (Car-ade) the first time I read HtE It wasn't untill about half way through DFR before I realized my mistake.

I still have to catch myself saying Baron Soonter Fel

I say Yuuzhan Vong (Yuzz-an Vong) not (You-zan Vong)

as far as plagueis goes I say it more latin style Plague-Eus

 

I agree. Hell, most times I just make up names that are remotley close. I galled Tahiri Ti-ree forever do to Lack of knowledge. I mean, couldn't they stuck with names like, Luke or Leia? I tend to get those right.

 

Personally I think it's okay if you have your own spin on some character's names-- that's part of the fun! I admit, it's nice to know for sure sometimes, but it's not that big of a deal.

 

Yeah. I somtimes tend to skimm over names and make my own, not very close pronunciation. I then learn I have them wrong when talking about them with a friend. He's really good at getting the name proninciations correct (or at least closer then mine).

I had the same trouble as Joda mentioned before. I am still prettly sure I am pronouncing Iella wrong. I pronounce it like EE-lee-ah.

I pronounce Aayla completely wrong. I used to say it like A (long a)-lee-ah. Now I pronounce it with a short A at the beginning.

Oddly, my friend who usually pronounces things more correct, got me into one of my worst habbits, and almost got me into another bad one.

Jaina:

I used to pronounce Jaina like Jay-nah. Or Jane-ah. But he told me I was wrong, and got me into this horrible habbit of pronouncing her name "Jainia." Which is like jay-knee-ah. I know it's wrong, but anything else doesn't seem right to me, and is just forced.

The other one I almost fell into was for Jacen:

I Have always thought it to be pronounced like the earth Jason. But he almost convinced me that it was like "jakeon." Luckly I set thins straight, so now we bothe pronounce it like the earth name


Also I've never been able to pronounce that Rogue pilot who's name startes with (and her nickname is) Rhy. I've been way too lazy to learn it, so I just call her Rhy.

 

You know, I have this one thing that I mispronounce knowingly only because it sounds better: Carida, the Imperial training world that Kyp destroyed. I pronounce it "Caridia."

Plagueis I have two ways of saying it: Plague-is or Plague-eus. It depends on how lazy I'm feeling at the moment.

Does anyone know how to pronounce Myrkr? I say something like "Mir-ker."

How about Utapau? Is it "Yu-top-ow?" "Oo-tap-ooa?" What?

 

Are you sure yoy spelled Carida right? Because I pernounce it Cardia.


I pernounce Myrkr like Mykur (but i know I'm wrong)

 

I pronounce it Mer-ker.

One of my most idiotic mispronounciations was Karrde. For some unkown reason, when I first read Heir to the Empire I thought it sounded like Ka-raid. But in my defense I was like eight.

 

That's no excuse. When I was 8 I was flying aeroplanes and writting novelettes.

 

3px is havond delusions of grandur again.

 

I always pronounce Myrkr Meer-keer. I also pronounce Coruscant CORE-eh-SAHNT, because I think it sounds better.

 

For Plaqueis, I pronounce it like: Plague-ee-us. I am probably wrong.

For Yuuzhan Vong, I say: You-shun Vong.

Hmm...what about Tsavong Lah(sp?): I say Savong La.

And also, Ysanne Isard. I say Ye-zane Is-erd. I think this one has already been gone over before.

darth_nemisis

 

The only one I ever had trouble with was Ysanne Isard, bit now pronounce it E-san-ne Isard. I'm almost 100% sure that it's right.

Evil.

 

I pronounce Aayla completely wrong. I used to say it like A (long a)-lee-ah. Now I pronounce it with a short A at the beginning.

I used to do the same thing.

 

"Are you sure yoy spelled Carida right? Because I pernounce it Cardia."

According to the Guide to the Star Wars Universe, third edition, it's spelled "Carida." I personally liked "Caridia" better. That's how I still say it.

 

Eh, I've alwaysed pronounced Aayla "ay-lah" because I have knew someone whose name wasy Ayla and pronounced it that way. I guess I could see the short "a" there, though.

Has anyone besides me ever tried to say Bpfassh out loud?

 

Yes. It's fun


Man, I wish Hanhad tried to pronounce the names of theose two ther systems

 

don't know why, but I used to read Coruscant as Corsucant. Then I realized my mistake and started calling it Coruskant. It took me a couple times hearing Liam Neeson pronounce it to realize he was saying it the best way. I was also glad that Lucas stuck with Zahn's name for the planet. Now if only he'd have just let Zahn write the prequels himself....

 

To my embarrasment, before I actually watched The Phantom Menace, I pronounced Qui-Gon, quee-gin. I still find myself doing that occasionally.

As for Karrde, I called him card-ay, before I figured out it should be pronounced card. I think.

Mykur, (I bet I'm not even spelling that right. ) I pronounce mur-kur.

In all, I am very bad at figuring out how to say things.

 

I thought Jacen was Jake-en for a while, but now I know its like Jason.

 

Wait. I thought that Karrde was pernounced Kardé I'm so confused

 

Blame GL, the other screenwriters, and the authors.

Different pronounciations are fun.

 

I thought Dooku was Doe-koo before I saw AOTC. I still think my way is better.

 

There's a pronunciation guide in the "New Essential Guide To Characters". But for the record:

Car'ee'da
Jay'nuh
Jay'son
Card
Core'oo'sahnt

As for Aalya, I have no idea.


Dana