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aiyeeta
United States199 Posts
Barracks? It's plural. It's always plural. There is no "Barrack." Notice, when you build a Barracks, it is a Barracks where when you build a Factory it is not a Factories. And thank you for your time. PS: Love this thread. Have been listening to a lot of casts lately due to my lack of actual playtime lately and a lot of these have been irking me. Especially wreak/wreck. | ||
Manifesto7
Osaka27179 Posts
On September 19 2010 19:33 aiyeeta wrote: I know this thread is about pronunciation... BUT, I've had to correct people about this for 12 years now and I'm ashamed that it needs to be brought up so regularly: Barracks? It's plural. It's always plural. There is no "Barrack." Notice, when you build a Barracks, it is a Barracks where when you build a Factory it is not a Factories. And thank you for your time. PS: Love this thread. Have been listening to a lot of casts lately due to my lack of actual playtime lately and a lot of these have been irking me. Especially wreak/wreck. I hear you on this one. That drives me nuts. I give this thread one more page before the great Nexus plural debate breaks out. | ||
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aev
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Chex Mix
76 Posts
On September 19 2010 19:33 aiyeeta wrote: I know this thread is about pronunciation... BUT, I've had to correct people about this for 12 years now and I'm ashamed that it needs to be brought up so regularly: Barracks? It's plural. It's always plural. There is no "Barrack." Notice, when you build a Barracks, it is a Barracks where when you build a Factory it is not a Factories. And thank you for your time. PS: Love this thread. Have been listening to a lot of casts lately due to my lack of actual playtime lately and a lot of these have been irking me. Especially wreak/wreck. Well, there is such a thing as a barrack (it means the same thing as barracks, though I can't say I've ever heard anyone actually say it), but the building is definitely called a barracks in StarCraft, so I agree with you people that say "barrack" in that context are super annoying! | ||
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
On September 19 2010 17:55 ccou wrote: zeh lut = religious fanatic zee lot = backbone of the protoss army Actually religious fanatic = backbone of protoss' army = zeh lut | ||
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Divinek
Canada4045 Posts
it's not that they can't read it's just a property of human attentiveness. You see parts of the word without analyzing the whole thing in sequence and quickly put it together in a way that makes more sense (it's not like you jumbling it but swapping 2 letters isnt a very big leap) since you see storm alot more, and it is actually part of the SC vocab anyway. So it's quite understandable in that context. i used to pronounce it zeelot all the time, a bunch people i know did/do On September 19 2010 19:39 aev wrote: The zealot pronunciation is one that's always left me scratching my head...I mean, the base word, "zeal", is pronounced "zeel", so shouldn't the suffix leave it unchanged? Where the hell did "zehlot" come from? my name is cale, you say it like pale but with a c and yet the word calendar, not at all like that :O, welcome to english but why it's like that actually? maybe it's like where it came from like zelotes "one who is a zealous follower," there word it came from was obviously just zel, but why zeal is zeel, duuuuuuno | ||
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Chex Mix
76 Posts
On September 19 2010 19:39 aev wrote: The zealot pronunciation is one that's always left me scratching my head...I mean, the base word, "zeal", is pronounced "zeel", so shouldn't the suffix leave it unchanged? Where the hell did "zehlot" come from? I'm not sure, but there seems to be a definite trend in English for vowels to change from long to short as you extend words by adding affixes or agglutinating them with other words. For example, centrifuge -> centrifugal has a long to short vowel shift, as well as a stress change. My personal thought is that this happens because short vowels can be said faster, making the word less unwieldy ... but I'm not a linguist. | ||
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kickinhead
Switzerland2069 Posts
Nony Pronounced: [noo-nee] Commonly mispronounced: [noh-nee] From: StarCraft, StarCraft 2 | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On September 19 2010 19:39 aev wrote: The zealot pronunciation is one that's always left me scratching my head...I mean, the base word, "zeal", is pronounced "zeel", so shouldn't the suffix leave it unchanged? Where the hell did "zehlot" come from? There are plenty of irregularities in the English language, and in many other languages I would assume. That's why Zeal is pronounced "zeel" and Zealot is pronounced "Zel-uht" | ||
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Mortician
Bulgaria2332 Posts
Tyler Pronounced: [tee-ler] Commonly mispronounced: [tie-ler] From: StarCraft 2 | ||
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SolHeiM
Sweden1264 Posts
On September 19 2010 19:35 Manifesto7 wrote: I hear you on this one. That drives me nuts. I give this thread one more page before the great Nexus plural debate breaks out. How about right now? According to dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Nexus Medical Dictionary nex·us definition Pronunciation: /ˈnek-səs/ Function: n pl nex·us·es ; Pronunciation: /-sə-səz/ or nex·us ; Pronunciation: /-səs, -ˌs{uuml}s/ 1 : a connection or link 2 : a connected group or series Though I have no problem with people calling it "Nexi" And Colossus. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/colossus World English Dictionary colossus (kəˈlɒsəs) — n , pl -si , -suses something very large, esp a statue As Tasteless had already said, both Colossi and Colossuses are correct. Though Colossuses in writing looks remarkably worse than "Colossi". | ||
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Chex Mix
76 Posts
As Tasteless had already said, both Colossi and Colossuses are correct. Though Colossuses in writing looks remarkably worse than "Colossi". My beef with colossus is that sooooo many casters says "colossi" when referring to a single colossus. | ||
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REDBLUEGREEN
Germany1904 Posts
On September 19 2010 20:09 Chex Mix wrote: My beef with colossus is that sooooo many casters says "colossi" when referring to a single colossus. colossi is also genitive singular. But yeah most use it the wrong way. | ||
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SUSUGAM
United States177 Posts
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Zocat
Germany2229 Posts
On September 19 2010 19:50 Chex Mix wrote: For example, centrifuge -> centrifugal has a long to short vowel shift, as well as a stress change. About this stress change - it is really important which part of the word you stress? I mean - English isnt like Chinese where the meaning of a word is dependant on it's pronounciation. More on topic: I - as a foreigner - pronounce the words in a German way (if I dont know their pronouncitation), if the words are exactly the same like "Chitin". I think a lot of other people handle it the same way. Also another word for your list: "melee" wrongly pronounced "melee" - correct would be "meleh". Is present in almost every computer game where something/someone has a melee attack. | ||
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ZBiR
Poland1092 Posts
"elevatored" (or "elevator'd", which is even more retarded) please... | ||
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Cambam
United States360 Posts
Pronounced: [ree-ey-juhnt] Commonly mispronounced: [reej-ent] From: World of Warcraft | ||
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
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Kenpachi
United States9908 Posts
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Sephy90
United States1785 Posts
On September 19 2010 18:15 3clipse wrote: I find it annoying when people simply ignore the extra c in iccup and just call it eye-cup. Well it's kind of the same thing with words that have more than one letter in them like "annoying" you don't see people saying it "ah-EN-noying" since that would be mispronouncing it. Since iccup isn't necessarily a word I believe people can pronounce it however they'd like. | ||
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