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Before the days of voice acting there were several ways of pronouncing made up names.

Have you any stories or names to share regarding this?

Also, here's Quina.

>> No.1980676

Cue-een-ah

Now it's time for all of /vr/ to slapfight about it.

>> No.1980683

Queen-na.

Yaf-fee.

Seffer-mof.

Tye-dus.

>> No.1980686
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1980686

Nibble-high(m)?
Nigh-bull-high(m)?
Nib-lem?

>> No.1980690

>>1980676
>Now it's time for all of /vr/ to slapfight about it.

There's nothing to slapfight over when you can just look up the original Japanese phonetic spellings.

>> No.1980714

kee-nah

>> No.1980720

>Kuu-ee-nah

>> No.1980724

"Zeebs"

>> No.1980846

>>1980686
nigh-bell-high-m

>> No.1980962

>>1980846
Nee-bull-helm

>> No.1980979
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1980979

Giggy-us

>>1980686
Same way you pronounce niflheim, except with a b instead of an f.

>> No.1981054

>>1980979
>Gee-why-gas

>> No.1981056

I think one of the most mispronounced names in gaming is "Cait Sith". It's gaelic and meant to be said as "kit -she", not "kate-with".

>> No.1981062

>>1981056
I always pronounced it as "Kate Sith".

Kate like the name and Sith as in Sith lord.

>> No.1981102

>>1981062
Stupid auto correct, I meant Sith, not with. Either way, Gaelic is very odd to pronounce, it's almost always spoken differently than what you'd think. Like "Sidhe" is said as "she".

>> No.1981143

Before voice acting you could rename characters. I renamed Cloud Zach and it's no wonder he had a breakdown.

>> No.1981209

>>1981056
Why the hell did they give him a Gaelic name? Didn't they think that would cause some confusion?

>> No.1981232

>>1981209
I can't speak for Sakaguchi, but back then as well as today, many writers and designers pick name cause they think they sound cool or suitable.

>> No.1981542

>>1981209
Final Fantasy is littered with non original concepts from enemies to summons and everything in between. It borrowed very heavily from lots of religions and mythologies.

>> No.1981553

>>1981542
Much like it's progenitor, D&D

>> No.1981554

>>1981062
I read it as Cat Sith because I thought Cait was an inaccurate translation. Cat Sith makes a lot of sense since it's some kind of dark wizard cat that rides around an ogre-looking thing.

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1981567

>>1981062
>>1981056

I had the old Versus games guide book for FF7 and they where the only ones Ive ever seen point out how it's pronounced Ket Shay

>> No.1981571
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1981571

I refuse to pronounce Zebes as "zebb-ess". All logic indicates that it should be pronounced just like Thebes - Zeebs.

>> No.1981590

Kwin-ah

>> No.1981607

like quinoa without the "w"

>> No.1981778

>>1981607
/ck/ is that you

>> No.1982089

>>1980724
Yup. zeebs
Also, Kwin-uh
>>1980686
Neeb-el-high-m

>> No.1982291
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1982291

not made up, but everybody called Hwoarang "Bob" for years

now there's a tekken character called Bob so he's called korean bob or k-bob

>> No.1982303

Kee-na

Probably wrong but idgaf.

>> No.1982309
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1982309

help

>> No.1982317

I thought Tidus was supposed to be Tide-us, what with all that water an shit

>> No.1982321

>>1982309

It's eithier "Gore" or "Gow" or I'm just a massive retard

>> No.1982345

>>1981209
why the hell is it a cat riding a giant moogle? the name is from a Gaelic fairy, but i bet they picked it because it sounded cool. But a cat who fights with paper trumpets, riding a moogle? I never had him on my team because it was just too damn ridiculous

>> No.1982348

>>1982309
"Gow"
My brother and I figured that must be how it was pronounced, because it sounds like something a kid raised by beasts would shout

>> No.1982364

>>1980656
I've always pronounced it
Ki-na
it sounds weird to me with a 'u' sound.

>> No.1982390

What is Cait Sith ACTUALLY supposed to be though? I thought it was pronounced "Kay-sith" with a silent t.

>> No.1982538

>>1982390

Cait Sith is from scottish mythology and is pronounced like cat sidhe or some stupid shit, I'm fucking bad when it comes to gaelic.

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1982543

>>1982390
Get help. You're no match for him, he's a Cat Sith Lord.

>> No.1982690

Currently playing Secret of Mana and the romanization of the official names is pretty butchered. Randi and Purimmu? That's obviously supposed to be Randy and Primm. Somebody can't into katakana.

>> No.1982715

>games with a japanese origin that have the same names
>absolutely only one way to pronounce that japanese name given the spelling
>english kids still argue about pronunciation
Seriously?

>> No.1982749

>Before the days of voice acting there were several ways of pronouncing made up names.

No there weren't. There were english-speaking people trying to apply english phonetics to non-english names for some reason.

>> No.1982781

>>1982317
I thought that too but it's actually based on the Okinawan word tiida, which means sun

>> No.1982804
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1982804

Cait Sith in FF7 is the Stray esper from FF6 (which was also named Cait Sith in Japanese) riding a giant moogle.

>> No.1982832

>>1982804

Or he's a robot because play the game

>> No.1982857

>>1982832

Yeah he's a robot, but his name and design are meant to be a callback to a useless summon from the previous game.

>> No.1983247

>>1980656
"kwinna"

>>1980686
"nih-bell-hime"

It means 'cloud home' in german

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>>1980656
Irishfag here.

I can confirm that 'Cait Sith' is pronounced "Kot shee"

For some reason they went with the Scots Gaelic version, so it's spelled Cait Sith. This confused the shit out fo my when I was younger, but later I l realised that its the equivalent of 'Cat Sídhe' in Irish, i.e. 'fairy cat' (na sídhe aren't fairies, precisely, but close enough. They're the mystical beings like really beautiful people that live in the otherworld in Irish mythology)

>> No.1983280

>>1982291
We called him "Morango" here in hueland.

>> No.1983281

>>1983247

>"nih-bell-hime"

Finally, thank you. So many wasted years, goddamn.

>> No.1983476

>>1982291
>so he's called korean bob or k-bob

No, everyone gave up on that stupid-ass "Bob" shit after T6, since he doesn't even have a motorcycle in that one.

Now he's called Hwoarang because it isn't hard to say and we've had over 15 years to practice saying it.

>> No.1983545

>>1982715
because they think everything is pronounced in english