On August 27 2010 13:14 Hier wrote:
I pronounce "ocwouhgcfwoiqfeo" as "Mr. Brown".

It's one thing there being a few ambiguities in English pronunciations, it's a completely different thing to plain not know how letters are pronounced.

I find it appalling that someone pronounces "no" as "new". It might have been understandable coming from someone whose English isn't their first language.

Maybe he meant it to be a word from a language where "o" is pronounced the way "ew" is in English. Maybe that particular letter has a diacritical mark (like an umlaut) that may not be a valid character for some websites/games. Lots of different languages use more or less the same alphabet as English even though they don't pronounce all the letters the same. English isn't the only "right" way to spell/pronounce words.

As far as I'm concerned, proper names are pronounced however their owner says they are. So if someone who gives his name as "ocwouhgcfwoiqfeo" says it's pronounced "Mr. Brown", then it is.

Excalibur_Z

United States12224 Posts

August 27 2010 16:56 GMT

#45

It's "no nee" and there's no way you could ever pronounce it "new nee" unless you're one of those silly Canadians that say "aboot" or one of those people that makes fun of silly Canadians that say "aboot" (Chill is 100% the former and Day is 100% the latter).

If anything the choices should be between "no nee" and "non nee" (何?)

mOnion

United States5651 Posts

August 27 2010 17:00 GMT

#46

At the meet Nony in austin trip I got to finally ask Nony how to pronounce his name. This was recorded on video but indecisivepenguin still hasn't posted it T_T

I asked him exactly how you were supposed to say his name because the majority of people who graduated high school pronounce it Naw-knee (short "o) or Know-knee (long "o) but no one says it like New-knee (long "u") even though a few members are sure that's how Tyler wants it to be pronounced

This is the exact statement Liquid'Tyler gave on his name pronunciation

He said that when he and his brother were younger they were coming up with names that were simple but had to be pronounced weirdly. So he decided on Nony but decided that it would be pronounced NEW-NEE just to be annoying.

That's it @_@

ThE.SparkZ

United States381 Posts

August 27 2010 17:05 GMT

#47

It's pronounced tee-lehr, not tie-lehr

NeoOmega

United States495 Posts

August 27 2010 17:10 GMT

#48

On August 27 2010 14:03 RebirthOfLeGenD wrote:

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Actually nony himself pronounces it new knee but the better question is why does he pronounce it like that?

NONY THATS ALL I WANT TO KNOW? New Knee makes no sense from a pronunciation standpoint and it doesn't sound as awesome. Would you mind explaining?

What does Nony mean

Nony is a nickname that my brother gave me when I was about 5 and he was about 7. It doesn't have any meaning at all. It is pronounced like the words 'knew' and 'knee'. Knew-knee with equal emphasis on both syllables. He still calls me that today and my friends called me that when I was a child.

Taken from this interview. The real question is, if his brother called him "new-knee", why did he start spelling it "Nony."

Excalibur_Z

United States12224 Posts

August 27 2010 17:12 GMT

#49

On August 28 2010 02:00 mOnion wrote:
At the meet Nony in austin trip I got to finally ask Nony how to pronounce his name. This was recorded on video but indecisivepenguin still hasn't posted it T_T

I asked him exactly how you were supposed to say his name because the majority of people who graduated high school pronounce it Naw-knee (short "o) or Know-knee (long "o) but no one says it like New-knee (long "u") even though a few members are sure that's how Tyler wants it to be pronounced

This is the exact statement Liquid'Tyler gave on his name pronunciation

He said that when he and his brother were younger they were coming up with names that were simple but had to be pronounced weirdly. So he decided on Nony but decided that it would be pronounced NEW-NEE just to be annoying.

That's it @_@

I think it's safe to say that Tyler no longer has ownership of his online nickname as we have just seen, because I have declared the pronunciation to be "no nee" and it shall be so.

s[O]rry

Canada398 Posts

August 27 2010 17:17 GMT

#50

Silly Nony... Not knowing how to pronounce his own name.

MangoTango

United States3670 Posts

August 27 2010 17:23 GMT

#51

I pronounce it "Tyler."

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

August 27 2010 17:40 GMT

#52

NEWNEE, any other way is wrong.

On August 28 2010 01:56 Excalibur_Z wrote:
It's "no nee" and there's no way you could ever pronounce it "new nee" unless you're one of those silly Canadians that say "aboot" or one of those people that makes fun of silly Canadians that say "aboot" (Chill is 100% the former and Day is 100% the latter).

If anything the choices should be between "no nee" and "non nee" (何?)

You are wrong. Nony pronounces it NEWNEE, so it doesnt matter what you think, you are wrong.

Dystisis

Norway713 Posts

September 03 2010 22:23 GMT

#53

Tyler is spelled like "tie-ler". In SC2 Attack with Tyler/Nony, Incontrol was joking around with it being spelled like "teeler", just to mess with him because no one could correctly pronounce his previous name either. I guess people didn't get the joke, and took it to be the correct way to say it.

Nony is spelled like "noon-ee". Not "noh-nee". In my language, the "o" sound is like the sound in noon so I guess I'm lucky with that one, but I understand that it's weird for English talkers.

Idra is spelled like ih-dra, with a short "ih" sound. Not "eye-dra".

Louder

United States2276 Posts

September 03 2010 22:47 GMT

#54

His brother calls him "new-knee". I call him god.

Denizen[9]

United States649 Posts

September 03 2010 22:47 GMT

#55

I love the people who say its outright this, when it is actually the opposite