cem he/him Posted February 3, 2014 Posted February 3, 2014 (rih-NAH-rin) would be my best attempt at the transliteration, Weiry. At this point, we might want a page dedicated to pronunciation actually. So we could put an IPA vestion/"regular spelling" version, with a click-through to the full pronunciation page. That page would be where I would put things like Brandon's policy on pronunciations, descriptions of linguistic heritage and similarity for each world, differences between in-world and out-of-world pronunciation, and maybe lists of pronunciations for major words and characters from each book? If not, I'd say that most common, out-of-world pronunciation should go at the top, with in-world pronunciation down in Trivia. Dedicated page sounds good to me, but I don't know about having a list of pronunciations. I think we are better of having them in individual pages? Instead of linking to Help:IPA on Wikipedia, we can link the pronunciations to this page. And there, we can go crazy with your descriptions and explanations and Brandon's caveat and whatnot?
FeatherWriter she/her Posted February 3, 2014 Posted February 3, 2014 That could certainly work as well, cem!
Joe ST he/him Posted February 3, 2014 Author Posted February 3, 2014 LOL! Actually we have no idea what his Scadrian name would be. Breeze is a translation into English of the word they actually use. (So are Spook and Clubs, etc.) And it's not the French word either, because they don't actually speak French. Luckily we have other names for Ladrian and Cladent (and technically Spook is just a nickname, on top of Jedal and Lestibournes) How about Marsh?
PeterAhlstrom he/him Posted February 3, 2014 Posted February 3, 2014 (edited) As far as I know, Marsh is just Marsh and it's not meant to be the English word. And someone needs to ask Brandon if Mare's full name is Marewill, like the flowers that are named after her. Edited February 3, 2014 by PeterAhlstrom 6
Argent he/him Posted February 3, 2014 Posted February 3, 2014 Gee, if only someone could call him and ask this...
PeterAhlstrom he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 As if Brandon ever answers the phone. 6
Chaos he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 As if Brandon ever answers the phone. Look we all know you can just walk down the hallway, you don't need the phone to reach him
Windrunner he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 I always kind of figured that it was Marewill because it was her will that Scadrial return to the way it was before the Ascension. I never considered that Mare was just part of her name.
PeterAhlstrom he/him Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 No one wants to interrupt Brandon when he is writing! 5
Elbereth she/her Posted February 4, 2014 Posted February 4, 2014 I stuck the Mare question on the Ultimate List thread (which needs to be updated badly...)
Windrunner he/him Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 It does. I worked on it a while ago, but while I love the new forum upgrades, it makes it really inconvenient for my formatting on that page. I'll see what I can do.
Elbereth she/her Posted February 5, 2014 Posted February 5, 2014 That would be great. Sorry for making you do even more work than the wonderful stuff you already do.
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