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Natetan

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So I was watching a speed run of SOTN, and I noticed they pronounce his name Al-oo-card. I always pronounced Al-you-card.

Is there a consesus on this pronounciation? Also feel free to post other game character names that have multiple pronounciations.

I hope no one pronounces it Mary-o anymore :p
 
Aeana said:
Neither.
Ryu. It's one syllable.
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No matter how many times I run that through my head, I can't turn that into one syllable.
 
Aeana said:
I say A-loo-card, since that's how it's actually said in the game.
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Guess I haven't played any voice acting castlevanias. Just started calling him that from CV III

Edit: I've always sam-us and rid-lee

Edit2: Tide-us
 
For me, it's Samus and Ridley.

Some say "Samus" like "sam"+"us", but I've always said it like "sah"+"mus". I think Smash Melee says "sah mus" but Smash Brawl says it "sam us".

As for Ridley, I always pronounce it "Ride"+"Lee". A friend pronounces it like "Rid"+"Lee".

Aeana said:
I say A-loo-card, since that's how it's actually said in the game.
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This is true.
 
Why would you do that? said:
For me, it's Samus and Ridley.

Some say "Samus" like "sam"+"us", but I've always said it like "sah"+"mus". I think Smash Melee says "sah mus" but Smash Brawl says it "sam us".

As for Ridley, I always pronounce it "Ride"+"Lee". A friend pronounces it like "Rid"+"Lee".

This is true.
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Original Smash said "Sah mus". I believe canon is "Sam us", as that's how it was pronounced in Prime 3.

Fairly certain that Ridley is "Rid Lee".
 
ZealousD said:
No matter how many times I run that through my head, I can't turn that into one syllable.
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Yeah. The R is that weird Japanese r/l hybrid sound, too. Goddamn unpronouncable name.
 
Aeana said:
I say A-loo-card, since that's how it's actually said in the game.
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Even if that wasn't how it was pronounced in the game, it would still be the right way. That's how it's pronounced in Son of Dracula. (which predates the entire Castlevania series by over 40 years)
 
Why would you do that? said:
For me, it's Samus and Ridley.

Some say "Samus" like "sam"+"us", but I've always said it like "sah"+"mus". I think Smash Melee says "sah mus" but Smash Brawl says it "sam us".

As for Ridley, I always pronounce it "Ride"+"Lee". A friend pronounces it like "Rid"+"Lee".


This is true.
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I assume Ridley's name is from Ridley Scott's name, due to Alien. So Rid-lee.
 
Sixfortyfive said:
Yeah. The R is that weird Japanese r/l hybrid sound, too. Goddamn unpronouncable name.
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The best way to pronounce it is to have your mouth in the position of a hard 'r' (spanish/japanese) and then say 'yu' coming from that position in your mouth and it just sort of happens.

I can imagine though that the 'r' sound must be harder to pronounce for an english speaker than say, a spanish or italian speaker.
 
RadioHeadAche said:
Aeris

Aerith

lol
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The next word in that progression? Weeaboo.
 
ZealousD said:
They can't seem to agree either. I'm hearing both "You" and "Dew" (D-Ew, not like "do").
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It's common for the R sound to end up sounding kind of like a D, especially when slurred into a Y sound. It's a symptom of how the R sound is pronounced in Japanese (it's a rolling sound between R and L).
 
Aeana said:
It's common for the R sound to end up sounding kind of like a D, especially when slurred into a Y sound. It's a symptom of how the R sound is pronounced in Japanese (it's a rolling sound between R and L).
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I don't rike it. =(
 
CruxisMana said:
Tee-dus.
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Guess that's how the most Germans would pronounce his name.But also,Zelda with an "hissing" Z instead "Selda".And I always pronounce Hyrule "Hee-ruule" instead of "High-rule".
 
Not a character, but it's "Swee-ko-den," right?

Never heard it said out loud.
 
chandoog said:
How the fuck do you properly pronounce Tidus ?

Tie-dus or Tee-dus ?
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Tee-dus
 
RadioHeadAche said:
Zid-on

Those really irritated me in Dissidia.
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I always call him Zee-tahn since I played FF9 in Japanese first, and that's what he's called there (ジタン). IIRC, that soccer player named Zidane's name is pronounced pretty similarly (Zee-dahn?)
 
I didn't know how to say Squall until someone was talking to me about that film White Squall. I didn't know how to say Rinoa either.
 
StevePharma said:
The correct Greek pronunciation should be Kraa-tos, if my ancient Greek is still fresh from college. :lol
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That's how i pronounce it, and Ma-Rio not Mar-Rio.
 
The-Warning said:
Ah okay I was saying it right then. I've heard some people say eye-koh and I was wondering if they were right, or maybe they were just hipsters.
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Maybe the hipsters are right and everyone else is wrong.
 
The-Warning said:
Ah okay I was saying it right then. I've heard some people say eye-koh and I was wondering if they were right, or maybe they were just hipsters.
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It's actually not too clear. I say ee-koh because nee-koh and tree-koh, but I've heard in one of the Japanese forms of written language that shows pronunciation says it's eye-koh.
 
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