how do you say [Archive]

hi-val

12-05-2007, 10:14 AM

It's pith-ing needle, NOT like pie-thing needle. That one bugs me since Pithing is an actual verb that means to pith, or sever the spinal cord. We don't call the inner core of a tree phonetically the pie-th. That's just silly.

The others are straightforward-- ZAN-tid swarm (or COVERED IN BEES! alternately), Jee-tay, and Sionic Blast. Does anyone actually say the P in psionic blast? If they do, they're publicly embarassing themselves.

Also, necro-potence, not ne-crop-o-tenz.

-Doug the wordsmith

Versus

12-05-2007, 10:17 AM

I agree with everything hi-vial says except Jitte. It's Jit-TEH

nitewolf9

12-05-2007, 10:25 AM

Just call it jeet.

mikekelley

12-05-2007, 10:43 AM

And be wrong.

Solpugid

12-05-2007, 10:51 AM

@ Hi-val
Why isn't it Ne-CROP-otence when it's om-NIP-otence? Your pronunciation doesn't make any sense to me.

Bovinious

12-05-2007, 11:35 AM

What Hi-val said except its Zan-tid, the 'h' is silent.

It is Necro-potence because it means like power (potence) of death (necro). Also om-NIP-potence is a real word, Necropotence is made up word and is supposed to have necro and potence in it and pronounced.

EDIT:

Does anyone else say LEE-line of the void? I know it should be LAY-line, but for some reason I always say LEE-line...

Shugyosha

12-05-2007, 12:04 PM

Adan

12-05-2007, 12:17 PM

How do you say swamp?

I ask because same people in Germany pronounce it: "swomp". But it is wrong I guess the verb "to swamp" is spoken with an "a".

Another common problem over here is Stifle. People either say "STEI-fel" or "stiffel". I looked it up and the first one seems to be correct.

"Swomp" is correct. We watched Shrek in our english lessons, it confirmes it. :cool: And yes, there are also some Germans that have a incredibly awful accent and no feeling for other languages.

By the way, it's Omni-Potence Bovinious. Omni (all) - Potence (might). omnipotent = ALLMIGHTY!!!
Yeah, yeah, Latin in school rulez! But my skill is already gone, I'm glad not to have it anymore.

Nihil Credo

12-05-2007, 12:25 PM

Your Latin is fine, your English less so: it's omNIpotence (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/omnipotence).

zulander

12-05-2007, 01:01 PM

I say necro-potence.

Jade

12-05-2007, 01:10 PM

swomp sounds really strange... I'm for swamp (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=swamp)

Alltough everyone I know would laugh if you would say STEI-fel (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=stifle), which seems to be correct. hmz.

SpatulaOfTheAges

12-05-2007, 01:13 PM

It's pith-ing needle, like pie-thing needle.

Which are you saying?"Pie-thing" or "pith-ing"?

Slay

12-05-2007, 01:18 PM

Say everything the easiest way to say it phonetically. It's a game.

Jit-TEE

Machinus

12-05-2007, 01:19 PM

pithing needle
xantid swarm
jitte
psionic blast

pith-ing
zan-tid
jee-tay
sigh-on-ic

Tacosnape

12-05-2007, 01:28 PM

It's pith-ing needle, like pie-thing needle.

You are either wrong or mistyped your paragraph, I can't tell which.

"Pith" is pronounced in the same way that "Pit" is pronounced.

Therefore "Pithing" is pronounced like you're saying "Pissing" with a lisp.

Versus

12-05-2007, 01:35 PM

Jitte – We received many many emails about his one. I am not surprised, because it is not an easy one. Most people are calling it Jittay, Jeet, or Ji'TAY (with the J sounding as it does in Jacque.) These are all a bit off. It's pronounced JIT•TEH , with accent on both syllables, a little lingering on the T sound, and a quick “EH” sound at the end. Here are a couple other ones that people asked about:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mc2

Jitte means "ten hands" as karate means "open hand". We all know Karate is pronounced KA-RA-TEH so the end part is obviously the same. Also from taking martial arts classes for so many years I can confirm that the sensei there when counting off pronounced ten as "ji(t)" not "jeet". So I stand by JIT-TEH.

nitewolf9

12-05-2007, 01:51 PM

I still think you should just call it jeet. Correctness is not relevant in this argument. I know how you are supposed to pronounce it, that's not the point. So far no one has caught on, but I'll give the humor a bit to sink in to those among us who are not as quick.

Sims

12-05-2007, 02:00 PM

Yeah.... I mean... We all know what the cards are and do, so what does the pronunciation matter?

Umezawa's Jitte? - "Jeet".... "Gamewinner"... "Gobs worst nightmare"... people get the idea ;)

Pithing Needle? - How bout just "Needle"

Xantid Swarm - I thought was fairly straight forward with Xantid, but... "Swarm" works.

Psionic Blast - "Psy blast" works wonders. Or just say "the blue char"

Versus

12-05-2007, 02:04 PM

Ohh, well I'll just go with Fork!

Pinder

12-05-2007, 02:28 PM

I studied Japanese for 4 years in high school, and Jitte is technically pronounced 'JEET-teh'. The 'i' in Japanese makes an 'ee' sound. 'Jitte' is composed of 3 characters in Japanese: 'Ji', and a small 'tsu' to add emphasis to the 't' sound in the character 'te' (the small 'tsu' is where you get the extra t from in the english spelling of Jitte).

It doesn't really matter, though, as I don't really care what people call it. I know how it's pronounced and I still call it 'Jitty', 'Jeet', 'The Jit', 'j to the i to the t to the t to the e', etc. every now and then. I'm not really picky about pronounciation. And besides, when you say 'O Lord, it's the Jittey!', people know that you're not talking about just any Jitte, you're talking about Umezawa's Jitte. I consider all the mispronounciations to be like nicknames, sort of.

For the record:

Pith-ing Needle (Pith like 'Pit with an h on it)
Zantid Swarm (easy)
See above for Jitte
Sion-ik Blast (is this really mispronounced a lot? I don't see how)

The only thing that really annoys me is when people mispronounce 'kami'. It's not pronounced like 'cammy', it's pronounced like 'commie'. I don't know why, but when people say 'cammy' it makes me want to hit them. Luckily there were very few playable kami in Kamigawa block (the 'Kami' in Kamigawa is pronounced the same way, btw).

On a related note, how to people pronounce Phthisis? HINT: It rhymes with 'crisis'.

Peter_Rotten

12-05-2007, 02:48 PM

Most importantly, how do you pronounce the best typo ever, "CruBible of Worlds?"

I always went with crew-BIB-al, not crew-BY-bal

Van Phanel

12-05-2007, 02:56 PM

Sion-ik Blast (is this really mispronounced a lot? I don't see how)

The reason for that one is simple:

In some languages other than English (like German) it is possible to pronounce /ps/. In English it is not, but rarely anybody knows. So the people who don't know just go for the seemingly obvious way of pronouncing it like /psionik blast/ where the /p/ shouldn't be pronounced.

Tacosnape

12-05-2007, 03:00 PM

xsockmonkeyx

12-05-2007, 03:02 PM

And besides, when you say 'O Lord, it's the Jittey!', people know that you're not talking about just any Jitte, you're talking about Umezawa's Jitte. I consider all the mispronounciations to be like nicknames, sort of.

My buddy like to say "Brainstrom" and "Traumagoyf" on purpose. This first one is annoying but the second is rather descriptive.

godryk

12-05-2007, 03:09 PM

Spanish little kids tend to pronounce things like Jitte just: HE-Teh, oh yes, you should hear them...

PS: Tarmogoyf is usually called Tamagochi here... do you remember that shit?

Van Phanel

12-05-2007, 03:21 PM

PS: Tarmogoyf is usually called Tamagochi here... do you remember that shit?

I like that one, I'll try to make our community start saying that.

:wink:

xsockmonkeyx

12-05-2007, 03:24 PM

PS: Tarmogoyf is usually called Tamagochi here... do you remember that shit?

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g47/saxamaphone314/tarmogotchi.jpg

freakish777

12-05-2007, 03:31 PM

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g47/saxamaphone314/tarmogotchi.jpg

Made of win.

Bane of the Living

12-05-2007, 04:17 PM

On a related note, how to people pronounce Phthisis? HINT: It rhymes with 'crisis'.

Fthee-sis

This card comes from the disease that Yawgmoth studies in "The Thran". Its the active disease much like the black plague that begins phyrexian evolution.

One that has always pissed me off is when people pronounce Arc-bound Ravager as R-A-V-E-N-G-E-R. What possesses people to stick an 'N' in there?

Aether Vial probably takes the cake as the most mispronounced magic card. Aether anything. Its not Ether its EEth-er.

nitewolf9

12-05-2007, 04:22 PM

I think some of the worst pronunciation came from an extended tournament I was playing in where some dude was playing Tron against me in a "mirror" match.
Not to mention the fact that he wasn't the best player and beat me game 3 because I apparently can't draw lands, the insult to the injury came with these gems:

remand: "reprimand"
condescend: "condense"

He kept calling the cards by these names. I'm sure there were others, but I mean, c'mon. How does that happen? Did he just look at the first letter on the card and choose a word?

mikekelley

12-05-2007, 05:08 PM

Phthisis is pronounced "thi-sis"

rhymes with crisis, as noted above. You don't pronounce the ph.

The Rack

12-05-2007, 05:55 PM

It bugs me when people say Auriok Salvenger. God it bugs the hell out of me.

hi-val

12-05-2007, 10:28 PM

Which are you saying?"Pie-thing" or "pith-ing"?

Man, I mistyped hard. I meant to say like "pith-ing, NOT like pie-thing."

Something that gets me is "calvary", which is the name of the hill that Christ was crucified on, not the name of people on horses, which is "cavalry".

"Phthisis" is soooooo good. It's like a word that should never exist.

on1y0ne

12-05-2007, 10:40 PM

The people who put the extraneous "N" in Ravager and Salvager are the same ones who say "Orangutang" as opposed to "Orangutan."

Savages, I tell ya...

Sims

12-06-2007, 08:40 AM

You know I found something that annoys me...

When people say "Slight" or (on the internet) "Sly" instead of Sligh. Yeah. Dunno, but it annoys me to no end. Damn petpeeves.

Slay

12-06-2007, 09:05 AM

Phthisis is pronounced "thi-sis"

rhymes with crisis, as noted above. You don't pronounce the ph.

I do. <:mad:>
-Slay

etrigan

12-06-2007, 11:08 AM

... "Sly" instead of Sligh. Yeah. Dunno, but it annoys me to no end. Damn petpeeves.

How else would you pronounce Sligh?

blarknob

12-06-2007, 11:25 AM

Brehn

12-06-2007, 11:38 AM

"Stiffle" and "Ravenger" drive me mad every time I hear it.

Other question: how do you pronounce the "Tourach" in Hymn to T.? I've heard people say "Too-rack", "Torr-ritch" and some hybrid versions of the two.

Ataxrxes

12-06-2007, 11:46 AM

I say tour-ock, like two rock. I don't recall hearing any other pronunciations really. Usually people (me included) just say "hymn you".

Finn

12-06-2007, 12:00 PM

Alternately, It drives me INSANE when people say "Jitty", and then make some stupid joke about when Jitte has counters on it "Them's some big ol' Jitties."
Am I the only person who lol'ed here? I am absolutely going to start doing that.

SpatulaOfTheAges

12-06-2007, 12:27 PM

"Stiffle"

sch-TIFE-el.

Also of interest;

yam-a-bushi flAAAme(think Yoga Flame from SF2).

Van Phanel

12-06-2007, 01:01 PM

How else would you pronounce Sligh?

You probably skipped the part where he wrote:

->"(on the internet)"<- Sly

hi-val

12-06-2007, 02:30 PM

In my very early days of magic it used to drive me CRAZY when people would pronounce shahrazad as shaz-ER-had instead of shah-rah-ZAHD

People where playing a game based on 1001 arabian nights and they didn't even know the heroin/storyteller.

Mike, someone is going to bust your balls on "heroine" so it might as well be me : D

People also write "sleigh" a lot for Sligh, invoking the ultimate combo with Snow Lands and Arcum's Sleigh. Feer!

As for Tourach, I say "tor (like Thor)-ach (rhymes with block)" because it looks like a Germanic name.

We're also forgetting of of the most prolific and weird ones. How do you pronounce Kjeldor? Apparently, the official pronunciation is "yell-door" because the kj sound makes a Y in whatever Scandanavian language they based it on.

Sims

12-06-2007, 02:36 PM

We're also forgetting of of the most prolific and weird ones. How do you pronounce Kjeldor? Apparently, the official pronunciation is "yell-door" because the kj sound makes a Y in whatever Scandanavian language they based it on.

Well that's almost how I pronounce it. I put the K sound infront of it though, saying K-yell-dor, but hell if apparently the K sound doesn't exist infront of the y sound... woops on me.

As for Sligh, yeah... Sleigh, Slight, I have honestly heard someone call it slide (not to be confused with a real slide deck) at a tournament before. And the Sly thing is people typing the name of the deck/archtype online and just typing "sly" instead of "sligh"

Pinder

12-06-2007, 06:58 PM

Am I the only person who lol'ed here? I am absolutely going to start doing that.

No, I did too. A lot. I aim to make my jitties as big as possible whenever I can.

And 'Phthisis' is an actualy medical term:

phthi·sis (thī'sĭs, tī'-) Pronunciation Key
n.
A disease characterized by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body.
Tuberculosis of the lungs. No longer in scientific use.

So it's either like "thigh-sis' or 'tie-sis'.

Oh, and anyone remember when people used to keep pronouncing Mirrodin like 'Meridian'? Good God that annoyed the hell out of me.

xsockmonkeyx

12-07-2007, 04:16 AM

Svyelunite Temple

Help?

etrigan

12-08-2007, 12:03 AM

I probably shouldn't be taking anything they say in this podcast seriously. Nevertheless...

Magus of the Moon. Mag-us, or Mage-us?

Squee, Goblin Nabob. Nay-bob, or Nab-ob?

Sims

12-08-2007, 12:06 AM

I probably shouldn't be taking anything they say in this podcast seriously. Nevertheless...

Magus of the Moon. Mag-us, or Mage-us?

Squee, Goblin Nabob. Nay-bob, or Nab-ob?

Mag-us is how I pronounce it, though I hear people say Maj-us. And as far as I know its Nah-Bob.

TeenieBopper

12-08-2007, 12:06 AM

I probably shouldn't be taking anything they say in this podcast seriously. Nevertheless...

Magus of the Moon. Mag-us, or Mage-us?

Neither. It's may-gus.

moxpearl

12-08-2007, 01:03 AM

This is hilarious.

Cabal - I know it's kuh-ball, but for some reason I always say kay-bull

Aether - eee-ther, aye-ther, eh-ther. The AE is actually a unique letter in the Magic alphabet.

The Rack

12-08-2007, 01:15 AM

How do people say Memnarch? It's just Mem-Narch right? I hear people say Mem-ar-ach and that bugged me in mirrodin standard. Mishra is Mi-shra or Mee-shra always wondered that.

Jak

12-08-2007, 01:21 AM

I hate myself when I read new cards. I look at the name and just put a word similar into my head. I don't stop to think that it is actually a word. I used to say Co-va-tious. After a while I realized how stupid I was and realized Covet. Duh...:rolleyes:

MattH

12-08-2007, 12:14 PM

I hate the way people pronounce "Mirrodin". I think the correct way is to stress the "oh" in the middle, but most people don't. They say "meera-din" and not "mere-oh-din". I'm pretty sure Wizards said on their site that the long O is correct.

The real question about Necropotence is how you pronounce the second O. The first O is part of the prefix, which is "neck crow".

'Crop' is for wheat. Death power is many things, but it is not wheat.

That Ravenger and Salvenger thing pisses me off so much, too. To that I'll add "Ravinica". I guess some of this is personal shame because like a decade ago I did the same thing with "Krovnikan" (although I've always had Kjeldor correct).

I have no actual knowledge of the Crubible thing but I hope it's pronounced "bibble" (like bubble with an i), because of a hilarious old Conan O'Brian sketch about a door-to-door salesman selling The Holy Bibble, a bible knockoff.