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First of all, I hope I am posting in the right section, if not I hope the mods will be so nice to move it to the proper board without sending me 200 supplies of speedlings to punish my error.
I watch every dayly from day9 and sometimes I watch some cast from HD and Husky (not to speak about tastosis @ gsl or co-casters of day9 during MLGs and such). It seems everyone is unsure about to pronounce "Colossi".
First of all, it seems that most of the casters use the term "Colossi" when they are talking about more than one Colossus. Now, that's exactly how ancient latin works: 1 Colossus, 2 or more Colossi.
So, since it seems we are talking "latin", the exact pronounciation of Colossi is not Coloss-"i", but Coloss-"e". Where by "e" and "i" I meant the way you pronounce those vowels when you list the alphabet.
Also, the "e" is short, not long. So the sound is like the sound of the "i" in fish, and not like the "ee" in tree.
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This is not wrong..
.. but it's also not right.
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You are right. However, because most of the caster are NA / native english, I feel that this habit may stay forever 
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Nobody cares about unit name pronunciation.
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On November 18 2010 08:59 Dirich wrote:
First of all, I hope I am posting in the right section, if not I hope the mods will be so nice to move it to the proper board without sending me 200 supplies of speedlings to punish my error.
I watch every dayly from day9 and sometimes I watch some cast from HD and Husky (not to speak about tastosis @ gsl or co-casters of day9 during MLGs and such). It seems everyone is unsure about to pronounce "Colossi".
First of all, it seems that most of the casters use the term "Colossi" when they are talking about more than one Colossus. Now, that's exactly how ancient latin works: 1 Colossus, 2 or more Colossi.
So, since it seems we are talking "latin", the exact pronounciation of Colossi is not Coloss-"i", but Coloss-"e". Where by "e" and "i" I meant the way you pronounce those vowels when you list the alphabet.
Also, the "e" is short, not long. So the sound is like the sound of the "i" in fish, and not like the "ee" in tree.
So like Colossih?
Don't tell me the koreans will be correct with the like
AAAAH COLOSSIH COLOSSIH COLOSSIH COLOSSU YAAA KAWASAMIDA
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Nobody knows how to pronounce Latin 'correctly': it's a dead language. CollosAI is as good as collosIH.
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I was taught classical latin (just look at my username), and I learned the nominitave plural as pronounced as -eye, making it pronounced phonetically as col-OSS-eye.
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It's not Latin, it's English. Just because English takes roots from Latin doesn't meant he pronunciation goes unchanged.
Radii, alumni, prospecti, foci are all pronounced with a long i in (American) English.
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On November 18 2010 09:02 Slayer91 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2010 08:59 Dirich wrote:
First of all, I hope I am posting in the right section, if not I hope the mods will be so nice to move it to the proper board without sending me 200 supplies of speedlings to punish my error.
I watch every dayly from day9 and sometimes I watch some cast from HD and Husky (not to speak about tastosis @ gsl or co-casters of day9 during MLGs and such). It seems everyone is unsure about to pronounce "Colossi".
First of all, it seems that most of the casters use the term "Colossi" when they are talking about more than one Colossus. Now, that's exactly how ancient latin works: 1 Colossus, 2 or more Colossi.
So, since it seems we are talking "latin", the exact pronounciation of Colossi is not Coloss-"i", but Coloss-"e". Where by "e" and "i" I meant the way you pronounce those vowels when you list the alphabet.
Also, the "e" is short, not long. So the sound is like the sound of the "i" in fish, and not like the "ee" in tree. So like Colossih? Don't tell me the koreans will be correct with the like AAAAH COLOSSIH COLOSSIH COLOSSIH COLOSSU YAAA KAWASAMIDA
HAHAHAHAHAHA I Lol'd "KAWASAMIDA"
OnT: Ty for the information :D
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I personally have always preferred "Collosuses".
Definitely thread worthy. It should be brought to their attention at once!
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On November 18 2010 09:02 AlBundy wrote:You are right. However, because most of the caster are NA / native english, I feel that this habit may stay forever
Actually, it is way cooler to me the way they pronounce it.
But since I've listened more than once every caster I named asking themselves out loud what is the correct pronountiation (aka someone DO care...), I felt like I could do something good by writing this info.
It's not like they gotta change the way they say it, but at least now they can stop wondering about it! :D
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If we go down this road, shouldn't it technically also be "Colossii" when referring to a defined amount? In effect: "These coloss-ee-eye" / "He is producing coloss-ee" ..
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The plural of cactus is cacti, and everyone says it as cactAI, not cactih. Same with hippopotami, nuclei, etc.
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Collosusees, one better, Nukedufirst. 
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Good analysis, but consinder artosis for a minute. I'm sure he's been repeatidly corrected about how to pronouce ih-dra, and he still says eye-dra. Most casters just have a personal flare they wont give up and the masses listening pick up what casters say. Artosis is definitly the most notorious for doing stuff like this lol.
But just for you, i'll honor your works by calling Coloss-ee as Coloss-ih.
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On November 18 2010 09:03 aidnai wrote:
Nobody knows how to pronounce Latin 'correctly': it's a dead language. CollosAI is as good as collosIH.
Latin being a dead language in no way means that nobody knows how to pronounce Latin correctly.
@OP: "Colossi" in classical Latin would be pronounced "kole-awh-ssee." There is no emphasis on the last syllable, but it is most definitely a long "e" vowel sound. Also, English speakers saying "kawl-aws-sigh" is correct, as words such as "octopi" are English terms derived from Latin, not Latin words themselves.
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On November 18 2010 09:12 Fa1nT wrote:![[image loading]](http://b.imagehost.org/0885/Untitled_9.jpg)
I thought that "Nobody cares about unit name pronunciation." ??
You got to get you shit straight, man.
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