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12 years ago
I get asked this from time to time and considering that my name is a bit exotic in its pronunciation, it often needs clarification.
There are four syllables in my name. My personal phonetic rendering of it would be "ah-zaz-ai-ell". I put equal emphasis on all four parts.
Short A as in "traffic"
ZAZ as in "zap" plus the same Z sound again
I as in "eye"
AL pronounced more like "el" as in "spell"
The unusual pronunciation of the final syllable there got me thinking about English and it's many varied ways of pronouncing something. Despite being a native speaker of English, I've always been slightly strange about some of my pronunciations of words that I've seen spelled but never pronounced before. As I was considering that, I did a few searches and wound up with this video here that I thought was interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPP9BcuVklI When I went and talked to a friend they pointed out that English is the Katamari of language. Just rolling over other languages and stealing whatever sticks.
It also occurred to me that the International Phonetic Alphabet totally looks like a language to write magic spells in. >.>
There are four syllables in my name. My personal phonetic rendering of it would be "ah-zaz-ai-ell". I put equal emphasis on all four parts.
Short A as in "traffic"
ZAZ as in "zap" plus the same Z sound again
I as in "eye"
AL pronounced more like "el" as in "spell"
The unusual pronunciation of the final syllable there got me thinking about English and it's many varied ways of pronouncing something. Despite being a native speaker of English, I've always been slightly strange about some of my pronunciations of words that I've seen spelled but never pronounced before. As I was considering that, I did a few searches and wound up with this video here that I thought was interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPP9BcuVklI When I went and talked to a friend they pointed out that English is the Katamari of language. Just rolling over other languages and stealing whatever sticks.
It also occurred to me that the International Phonetic Alphabet totally looks like a language to write magic spells in. >.>
As for how to pronounce my name...well its easy lol. Save for Ulryc, the worgen, which is named after Ulric Kerensky of BattleTech lore. Its a russian name pronounced 'Ool-Rick'
And my character, Rêve, is pronounced exactly like the french word. Which sounds pretty much the same as rev, as in, "Rev your engine."
Interesting to see the differences in how people translate it.