Words Gamers Mispronounce - Page 8

On September 20 2010 03:39 Chronopolis wrote:
Words Gamers Pronounce Correctly:

Fuck Off
Pronounced: [fuhk awf]
Commonly pronounced: [fuhk awf]
From: Slang
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Imo, nitpicking over pronounciation is a waste of time. Anyways often, the "proper" pronounciation of words sounds far less bad-ass or epic. Think of "ZEAL-lots" and "ZEL-ots" or "cen-TRIF-uga"l vs "cen-tri-FUGAL".

On September 19 2010 20:43 Zoroth wrote:

Wrong! The latin pronounciation is eygus (or rather "Egus"). As such, because the word itself is latin and not anglican, both pronounciations are correct. Eyjis is incorrect, though, as you rightfully pointed out.


Wrong! sentrifyoogal is a dialect pronounciation, it's not incorrect it's just more latin (and technically thus, more correct). Directly stems from centrifuge root word. You say tamato, I say tameyto.

Similar example is Omniscient - It's correct to say "Omni-SAI-ent", but "Omnishint" is the far more common pronounciation.


Partially right/wrong - Maelstrom and Maelstorm are both correct words, but both are also pronounced as such. E.g. mispronounced as Maelstrom when it reads Maelstorm and vice versa.

Maelstrom comes from two words - Mal (latin "bad/wrong") and Strom ("current" (e.g. electric or watery) - scandinavian "strøm/ström"). Maelstorm is actually a modern word based on the original, historically correct word Malstrom/Maelstrom. The "storm" word was likely invented by Blizzard or some other game designer who wanted a more modern feel to the word for a younger audience.

Actually, if we're gonna be draconic about it the absolute correct pronounciation for Maelstrom is actually "MAL-struhm" and not "meyl-struhm". The word "meyl" is and anglicized corruption of the word. "ae" is actually an "æ" (for the "Mael" permutation, but not "Mal"), but that letter doesn't exist in the english alphabet.


The original correct pronounciation is "Viz-AH-dj", but as per english your example may also be correct. I'm not to familiar with any modern english version of the word.


"Zee-lot" (or "zeel-ot") may be far more obscure than "sentri-fyoo-gal", but let me remind you of the root word "zeel" (Zeal). But rightfully, Zellot and Zellus are typically correct.


Just a little reminder:

Have in mind that dictionaries - especially internet dictionaries that there's no way to double-check and that is highly subjective to the mind of the authors (as opposed to actual language-use in society, which is always developing and changing with the culture) - is NOT empirically correct.

Internet dictionaries are void of any empiricism and book-form dictionaries are ever-changing. To start debating what is correct compared to what a dictionary claims is correct, is completely pointless. When certain things become common-place, the dictionaries change to reflect it.

On September 20 2010 04:05 QQplay wrote:


Mind blown twice.

On September 19 2010 20:43 Zoroth wrote:
Internet dictionaries are void of any empiricism and book-form dictionaries are ever-changing. To start debating what is correct compared to what a dictionary claims is correct, is completely pointless. When certain things become common-place, the dictionaries change to reflect it.

On September 19 2010 23:57 Mawi wrote:
wow i never knew i pronounced so many words wrong my english is not my native laungage but Jees
i should of known better thanks op and btw is there anyway we can get someone to make a short
sound clip of how to pronouce them im pretty bad when it comes to [ree-ey-juhnt] things like that
i say reaghent

On September 20 2010 00:01 Raidern wrote:
wtf so TYLER = 'TEE-LER'?!
like steven tyler -> steven 'tee'-ler?
seriously? :S

and lol i've always mispronounced melee and didn't know about that! =] ty, same with zealots

edit- thefreedictionary.com and google says 'tie-ler'