Lit The Official "How do I say that?" Thread

Kay-Dus.

 

Again, it's a real word/name.

 

I skimmed back over the thread so apologies if I missed a previous discussion of this one:

How do you pronounce Mirax?

 

MIH-racks?

 

I say Meer ax

(Meer rhymes with peer)

 

I say My-racks.

 

Well Havac's is substantially different from Horseys or mine, which are pretty similar...

 

I pretty much debate with myself between Meer-ax and My-racks and can never decide. The "y" is the key but I can't decide which way it should go.

 

I've always said Meer-ax for some reason.

 

Well, I've only seen that real world name in print, as Gilaad Ben Zoma (from some old ST:TNG novels), and have been pronouncing HIS name that way, too.

 

I pronounce it cah-eh-doos

By the way the word caedus is based on the latin word caedes=to slaughter.

I'm a native speaker of a language that descends from the latin (portuguese) so I must be close to the right way to pronounce it...

 

Keeps reminding me of Caesar, which I keep reading like in German (y'know, with an umlaut ae/ä), which makes me read him more like "Cay-dous"

 

Didn't pretty much all modern language (aside from arabic and the various asian languages) begin with Latin thus making ALL language a derivative of Latin?

Caedus (pronounced by me) = Kay-Dus

Master Luc

 

No. Look at the family tree, especially.
Latin only made its way into most languages thanks to Church and Science

 

kai duss
kai like sky

 

Are there other examples of "ae" making that sound?

 

Since, for all intents and purposes, basic IS English. I say tes it doesn't make any sense phonetically speaking. I don't see why, just as in real life, pronunciantions can't vry from person to person IU, but that's just me. Hence Kash-eek and Kash-ick.

 

That's how it's pronounced in Latin.

 

Ah.

 

I've always said Kay-dus

 

Thanks for the Latin tip. I looked up the origins awhile ago and couldn't find anything (why I didn't think Latin in the first place is beyond me).

Also, I've noticed that Caedus has an alternate spelling in a few places (Legacy 19 for example). I like to think that Cade Skywalker was named after Caedus in my own piece of fanon. Anyone else?

 

Why would they name him after his great great uncle's Sith name? Just an unfortunate coincidence, I guess, both IU and OOU.

I think it'd be pretty cool if no one but Caedus and the Sith know his Sith name.

 

Yun isn't pronounced Yoon, so why is Kun pronounced Koon? It doesn't make any sense

Who says "Exar Kun" is a basic name? It could quite easily be a name from a non-Basic speaking culture. Yun definitely is - since Yun wasn't even human, he was Epicanthix.

 

^ Exactly.

 

I'm currently listening to the Star Wars radio drama for the first time. Did you guys know that the "e" in "Tantive" isn't silent? It's pronounced, Antilles-style. Huh. Okay.