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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 00:43 GMT
#1
Many of you may fondly recall the original Age of Empires game, and the hilarious sounds the priest unit made while attempting to convert enemy units.

If not, ten minutes worth are contained in this video:


It seems that most people hear this sound as "wololo" - I do not. Instead I hear it as more like "nyenyenyeh" or something similar, and I've come across only a few people that agree.

I find this deeply disturbing. How do you hear this sound?
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Poll: Priest conversion sound?
(Vote): Wololo
(Vote): Other (Please specify)




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Dgtl
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada889 Posts
September 12 2009 00:47 GMT
#2
this sounds like Wonono to me lol. I don't see how you could get "nyenyenyeh"
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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
September 12 2009 00:50 GMT
#3
On September 12 2009 09:47 Dgtl wrote:
this sounds like Wonono to me lol. I don't see how you could get "nyenyenyeh"


Yeah, definitely like Wonolo/wonono/wololo/etc
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 00:51:47
September 12 2009 00:51 GMT
#4
Haha, see to me I have no idea how people are hearing a "w" or an "l".

Someone on the youtube comments said it sounded like "een een eee" which is closer to mine, and a friend found someone on heavengames who thought it sounded like "nimeneh". All of my siblings also agree.

I wonder if it's like 6-n-propylthiouracil where a small % of the population has the genes to taste it (it tastes really bitter) while the rest taste nothing - the small % are incidentally the broccoli haters. Haha.

Thanks for the input.
Starparty
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Sweden1963 Posts
September 12 2009 00:51 GMT
#5
Ive just spent the last 5 minutes just staring infront of me thinking "--what?--"
The artist formerly known as Starparty
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24717 Posts
September 12 2009 00:52 GMT
#6
This is what I hear in my head when I read threads in the Starcraft 2 forum.
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FoBuLouS
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States570 Posts
September 12 2009 00:57 GMT
#7
I love age of empires lolol
excess1ve
Profile Joined January 2008
United States359 Posts
September 12 2009 00:58 GMT
#8
I remember that game, I loved building sentry towers everywhere and just massing ballistas and pults
Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 01:01:36
September 12 2009 01:01 GMT
#9
On September 12 2009 09:52 micronesia wrote:
This is what I hear in my head when I read threads in the Starcraft 2 forum.


Hah. It is what I hear when I watch fox news or read aegwhatever's posts.

But seriously NO ONE hears it that way? Not even sometimes?
uglymoose89
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States671 Posts
September 12 2009 01:02 GMT
#10
it sounds like wololohohoh
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 01:03:50
September 12 2009 01:02 GMT
#11
I hear wololo lololololol

idk how you can hear something else t_t

edit: actually kinda like the previous poster I hear like wololoohohoh, but more like if he said wololoooooo with some thumping behind or something
#1 arb fan -- Raelcun is Nuclear backwards. Rekrul is Lurker backwards. Grobyc is Cyborg backwards. Eniram is Marine backwards.
Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 01:03 GMT
#12
Ugh, this is so upsetting. Thanks for the shin ramyun blog by the way, it inspired me to try your egg method today.
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
September 12 2009 01:06 GMT
#13
On September 12 2009 10:03 Freyr wrote:
Ugh, this is so upsetting. Thanks for the shin ramyun blog by the way, it inspired me to try your egg method today.


haha glad you liked it ^^
more coming soon just pretty busy~ stupid work and college T_T
#1 arb fan -- Raelcun is Nuclear backwards. Rekrul is Lurker backwards. Grobyc is Cyborg backwards. Eniram is Marine backwards.
bahaa
Profile Joined November 2008
Lebanon29 Posts
September 12 2009 01:10 GMT
#14
My answer:

Both wololoo and nyenyenyeh are there. If I wanted to imagine the first one I can hear it as such and if I want to imagine the second I'll hear the second. My guess is that it all comes down to how you hear the first part. Culture and the sounds your family make around you as well as the life experiences you've gone through and the way you learned speech all play a part in how you hear this. I personally hear it wololoo if I don't try too much, but maybe that's because my cousin used to imitate the priest's sound like that. I think it the voiceactor had to say one thing and not the other so in the end there has to be one answer and most likely it is wolooloo, but the way it is recorded in confuses you into thinking that "ne" and "ye" exist, perhaps when saying wo and then lo, the transition between these two sounds creates the perception that there's ne and ye? Maybe because wo is broad while lo is narrow? Perhaps the contrast between w and l is similar to the one between n and y?

I find this topic interesting! It made me think of something new!
Not_Computer
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada2277 Posts
September 12 2009 01:11 GMT
#15
sounds like wolulawww, but i'll keep listening to this for 10 minutes and see if i change my mind
"Jaedong hyung better be ready. I'm going to order the most expensive dinner in Korea."
Chuiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
3470 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 01:15:38
September 12 2009 01:15 GMT
#16
I can't hear nyenyenyeh. I can clearly hear 'wonolo' though.
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MooCow
Profile Joined September 2008
1434 Posts
September 12 2009 01:25 GMT
#17
Spent 3 mins trying to make it sound like nyenyenyeh, still sounds like wolono lol
Making history not reliving it.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51489 Posts
September 12 2009 01:26 GMT
#18
'Wonono'
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RoieTRS
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States2569 Posts
September 12 2009 01:29 GMT
#19
10 mins 20 seconds later...

I still hear wololo exactly the same.

I recomend checking your speakers/headphones before your ears imo. occum's razor and all that wot.
konadora, in Racenilatr's blog: "you need to stop thinking about starcraft or anything computer-related for that matter. It's becoming a bad addiction imo"
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
September 12 2009 01:30 GMT
#20
wololo is all I hear
the rest of you smoke crack
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
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