On September 12 2009 12:24 alffla wrote: how HOW??? i listned to it more times
impossible how "Wo" can sound like "Nyeh"
its like ...if "Wo" was english "Nyeh" would be russian. sadfADSFADS
I am just as mystified as you. What I hear is NOTHING like wololo. It's nasal and not very distinct, "nyeh" is not the only way I'd describe it.
Some guy on the youtube comments said it sounded like "een een eee" which I could imagine describing it as also, where everything is heavily nasal. Pitchwise it starts at about an E and drops the minor third to a G on the last syllable.
On September 12 2009 12:35 SwEEt[TearS] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3upCQ4ED84o plays it backward (pretty freaking random video tbh) backwards it sounds like ayoyoyou wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwtf
The ayoyoyou is not the same sound backward - it is another sound the priest makes. I hear that one just like everyone else.
These are both sounds the priest makes when 'converting' enemy units (when he has finished casting the unit becomes yours - exactly the same as the DAs mindcontrol). Thus the jokes about MJ "switching sides" and becoming white etc. Whether or not it is funny is another matter.
On September 12 2009 12:35 SwEEt[TearS] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3upCQ4ED84o plays it backward (pretty freaking random video tbh) backwards it sounds like ayoyoyou wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwtf
The ayoyoyou is not the same sound backward - it is another sound the priest makes. I hear that one just like everyone else.
These are both sounds the priest makes when 'converting' enemy units (when he has finished casting the unit becomes yours - exactly the same as the DAs mindcontrol). Thus the jokes about MJ "switching sides" and becoming white etc. Whether or not it is funny is another matter.
LOOOOOOOOOL ok if u acutally said "wololo" that wold've just been ilke. ...surreal lol. like your ears hear totalyl differently. anyway the way you said it soudns the same as wololo i mean like .. the pitch and tone or awhtever but
im trying so hard to hear it as nyehnyehnyeh..... but i cant
however, the closest i've come to hearing wololo as nyeh is at the last "loooooooh" where theres some kind of weird sound distortion and it soudns a bit like erreeeeeeeeeeeeehh.
like the 'ereeehhh/nyehhhhh' is kind of a raspy whispery noise that starts really showing from halfway through 'loohhh'
I'd be really curious to hear a recording by someone who hears it as 'wololo'.
It would also be cool to see a phonological interpretation of it, if there happen to be any linguist hanging about. I'm assuming Cunninglinguist did not choose his name for literal reasons...
The mp3 you put up doesn't sound like nyehnyehnyeh to me. Sounds like the start doesn't have a hard sound to it at all, nothing like an 'n'. So it sounds more like yehnyehnyeh. With the softer sound at the beginning it's easy to hear it closer to a 'w', and in the original youtube it's quite close to a 'w' sound but I could hear it more like an 'ah' or some other softer sound like in the mp3.
Further, once the 'n' and 'L' sound are filtered and blurred like in these recordings it's pretty easy to hear it either way. And for the 'yeh' part of nyeh, that's pretty easy to hear as just 'neh', and 'eh' and 'oh' are pretty close once blurred and altered like in these clips.
This all makes sense, and I would understand if there were more interpretations - it is just bewildering to me that the overwhelming majority of people hear "wololo".
I also still don't hear anything approaching a w or L :S
Though, I seem to remember the game having an alternate sound that also got played some of the time, so it could be that the "nyehnyehnyeh" comes from that.
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