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Pazuzu
Profile Joined July 2011
United States632 Posts
June 23 2014 14:02 GMT
#41
womp womppp. guilty of the abbadon one D:
"It is because intuition is sometimes right, that we don't know what to do with it"
GoonFFS
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark323 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-23 15:22:12
June 23 2014 15:21 GMT
#42
1. noone cares about this post
2. Ægis
http://konvictgaming.com/ -> @KrugerFFS
Sbrubbles
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil5776 Posts
June 23 2014 19:31 GMT
#43
On June 22 2014 22:48 Kraznaya wrote:
also cou de grass not cou de gra



Cup of Grass.
Bora Pain minha porra!
RookerS
Profile Joined May 2013
Ivory Coast75 Posts
June 24 2014 03:46 GMT
#44
i say orgjess
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Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10668 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-24 07:14:36
June 24 2014 07:13 GMT
#45
Ägis

What I really find puzzling... Was Jakiro called THD for long? I played lots of Dota 1 and we allways called him Jakiro...
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
June 24 2014 17:05 GMT
#46
Lol we were just arguing about Visage yesterday in a game that he was in.
"Wtf I come back and find myself in camp DinoMight all of a sudden, feels weird man." -Wombat_NI
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
June 24 2014 17:57 GMT
#47
Does anyone actually care?
Languageevolves as people use it if we all pronounce it bad we make it right no? :
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
aboxcar
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
United States447 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-24 18:40:41
June 24 2014 18:36 GMT
#48
On June 25 2014 02:57 LemOn wrote:
Does anyone actually care?
Languageevolves as people use it if we all pronounce it bad we make it right no? :


New words like "googling" are created, phrases like "YOLO" are spawned, but mispronouncing words and misusing terms just makes a community look collectively ignorant. Imagine Kaci interviewing people at TI4 and people with American accents going "imPETus" because that's how they heard some Aussie streamer say it (and do the Australians even say it that way?)

If you want to say mari-NAHD instead of marinade or am-BIEN-s instead of ambience because that's how it is in French, that's one thing and it is your prerogative to be pretentious.

But simply mispronouncing words betrays your ignorance.
everything that rises must converge
dizzy101
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands2066 Posts
June 24 2014 22:25 GMT
#49
"As yet"? Who says that? Who says, "as yet"? WHO SAYS THAT?

Who the @#$ says that
FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
June 25 2014 06:19 GMT
#50
i had just assumed i was wrong about every single fucking thing in dota but looks like i am right so yay :/
except i still will say ae - jis
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CubEdIn
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Romania5359 Posts
June 25 2014 13:46 GMT
#51
http://www.forvo.com/word/visage/

Just because English speakers decided to butcher this one, doesn't mean that's how you're supposed to pronounce it.
Im not a n00b, I just play like one.
GeneralStan
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States4789 Posts
June 25 2014 14:09 GMT
#52
What bothers me is people saying Viss-Aj (not really sure on the phonetic way to write this, but rhymes with dodge)

It's Viss-ige (rhymes with un, midge)

Also Ay-Jiss all the way.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
babishh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada965 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-25 20:56:30
June 25 2014 20:44 GMT
#53
aegis: /ə'ɛdʒɪs/ (the greek way, but i'm not entirely sure if the G should either sound as /dʒ/ or as /g/. I'll ask a greek friend of mine.)
visage: /vj'zɑːʒ/ (the french way)
coup de grâce: /kudə ˈgrɑs/ (the french way)
abaddon: /'æbəddɒn/ (the german way)

this is how I pronounce them, with phonems referring to British accent to make it easy for everyone.

edit: there's also to consider the fact that most casters are english speakers, which makes them turn these words to an english pronounce. me too, italian mother tongue, pronounce words based on the language i'm speaking. for instance, if i'm speaking english i pronounce item /ˈaɪtəm/, if i'm speaking italian i pronounce it /ɪtɛm/. I know it sounds stupid, but no way i'm going to call items 'oggetti' :D
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aboxcar
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
United States447 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-25 21:06:21
June 25 2014 21:05 GMT
#54
abaddon: /'æbəddɒn/ (the german way)


abaddon isn't even german
everything that rises must converge
fleeze
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany895 Posts
June 26 2014 08:04 GMT
#55
On June 26 2014 06:05 aboxcar wrote:
Show nested quote +
abaddon: /'æbəddɒn/ (the german way)


abaddon isn't even german

aegis ist greek, so maybe you should pronounce it correctly. EE-jis is definately not right.
just because you THINK you spell it right, doesn't mean you are right. and this thread title totally sounds like MURICA, fuck yeah.

spoken words get affected by dialects even inside ONE country and can sound totally different.
why do you think that you can define how words like aegis are spoken out in GLOBAL esports, where we have multiple languages and some can't even pronounce certain letters. also many casters aren't even native english speakers.

also: is it EE-dra or EYE-dra and who the fuck even cares?
aboxcar
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
United States447 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-26 18:42:01
June 26 2014 18:37 GMT
#56
On June 26 2014 17:04 fleeze wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 26 2014 06:05 aboxcar wrote:
abaddon: /'æbəddɒn/ (the german way)


abaddon isn't even german

aegis ist greek, so maybe you should pronounce it correctly. EE-jis is definately not right.
just because you THINK you spell it right, doesn't mean you are right. and this thread title totally sounds like MURICA, fuck yeah.

spoken words get affected by dialects even inside ONE country and can sound totally different.
why do you think that you can define how words like aegis are spoken out in GLOBAL esports, where we have multiple languages and some can't even pronounce certain letters. also many casters aren't even native english speakers.

also: is it EE-dra or EYE-dra and who the fuck even cares?


Isn't there a difference between words with foreign origin (basically all words), loan words, and straight-up foreign words?

1. Consider debonair, with origin around 1200 from Old French, de bon aire. Would you still call this a French word? No, debonair is an English word.

2. Consider, ambience, loan word from the French ambiance. This is appropriated as an English word, but directly borrowed from modern French. Google auto-correct is even telling me I should spell it ambiance with an "a." How should you pronounce this word? I feel if you are speaking English you should pronounce it as English speakers do, but if you pronounce it as the French do perhaps you are not incorrect.

What about words that fall in between 1) and 2), like kowtow? Are you going to try and speak Chinese?

3. Then there are straight-up foreign words used in English, and stylistically these are printed in italics. To make matters confusing, sometimes these foreign words can be found in English dictionaries: raison d'être, c'est la vie. These are French words, and even when you are speaking English, it is correct to try and pronounce them in French.

Then there are words that fall between 2) and 3). What about the Yiddish "oy vey," is this English now or still Yiddish?


What, then, is aegis? It is an English word with Greek origin via Latin from around 1700. I don't think I get to define how it is said. But I also think that if people are going to mispronounce it, they should at least know how it is normally pronounced.
everything that rises must converge
CubEdIn
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Romania5359 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-26 23:32:07
June 26 2014 23:30 GMT
#57
^Well since you put it that way, then you should pronounce visage the french way.
Mostly because even though it exists in English as it was introduced long ago, it's actually being used in modern French (as you use "face" in English), while it's not really used in modern English.

I went a step further and tried to figure out how frequent it's being used in French and how frequent in English. I didn't get far with that, but I did stumble across a cute fact. There's this British band from the '80s that called themselves Visage, and their debut album was called Visage and the first song on that album was Visage.
Interested in how they pronounced it? youtube.com/watch?v=_HjnwIoxk8k - go to ~1 minute in.

Anyway, the point was that some words have deeper roots in some languages than they do in others. And you can't say it's wrong if someone chooses to pronounce it that way, especially if that someone is not a native English speaker.
I was super amused when GeneralStan posted that thing right after I explained that the original way to pronounce it was the one he hates.

edit: removed youtube preview.
Im not a n00b, I just play like one.
aboxcar
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
United States447 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-27 01:29:16
June 27 2014 01:26 GMT
#58
visage is used in English, origins 1250-1300 according to the dictionary. that it has different, additional meanings in English than it did originally in French only supports it being an English word. In any case, since "visage" in dota refers to a proper name and not the meaning, there are arguments that can be made for alternative pronunciations...

and I understand that people are not native English speakers

I guess we disagree fundamentally though:

1) I think native English speakers or not, both groups should strive to pronounce things correctly (when speaking English). Why can't you say someone is wrong if they are not native English speakers?

2) ignorance is an excuse, contrary to what the lawyers say, but it is not a defense. if you don't know a thing, we forgive you. if you know it and still don't care, then I don't know what to say.
everything that rises must converge
fleeze
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany895 Posts
June 27 2014 07:52 GMT
#59
On June 27 2014 10:26 aboxcar wrote:
visage is used in English, origins 1250-1300 according to the dictionary. that it has different, additional meanings in English than it did originally in French only supports it being an English word. In any case, since "visage" in dota refers to a proper name and not the meaning, there are arguments that can be made for alternative pronunciations...

and I understand that people are not native English speakers

I guess we disagree fundamentally though:

1) I think native English speakers or not, both groups should strive to pronounce things correctly (when speaking English). Why can't you say someone is wrong if they are not native English speakers?

2) ignorance is an excuse, contrary to what the lawyers say, but it is not a defense. if you don't know a thing, we forgive you. if you know it and still don't care, then I don't know what to say.

you ignore dialects which is just stupid. there are different ways to pronounce things depending on region. hell, there is different pronounciation even in the same english language (UK vs US english, Australia). and you really think there is only ONE right way to pronounce things? like, really?

language also isn't set in stone like laws, it's fluent and evolving all the time and not static like you think it is.
CubEdIn
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Romania5359 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-27 15:12:21
June 27 2014 15:08 GMT
#60
Yeah what he said. In Romanian, mispronunciation gets absorbed in the language if one word is "abused" enough so that most people use the incorrect form rather than the right one. They don't try to force people to do it right, they instead simply change the rules. Whether or not this is a good thing, doesn't really matter.

If you're saying "well ok but Visage is a name" then you have to think where the name comes from. Visage is a gargoyle (I guess there's no arguing that, it's even in the hero's lore), and gargoyles have their origin in a french legend, and are a common sight in medieval french architecture, like the ones on Notre Dame.
So, being a french monster, one could easily argue that the name is also french.
Im not a n00b, I just play like one.
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