What lore do you ignore?

[Cleretic]

Yeah, like I said in my initial post about this, inconsistent pronunciation is a problem in general. And I'll keep saying it, that's a failure on the current ADR team's part that I wish they would improve on. I don't want the ARR cast back, but whoever was voice-directing at the time was better at keeping that kind of thing straight.

Genuine question: do you have a name that's commonly mispronounced, or has multiple different accepted pronunciations/spellings? Or live near places/people that have the same?

I ask because I actually have a name that's commonly misspelt, and live in a city that's reasonably commonly mispronounced by people who live outside of it; neither is because they're especially foreign (on the contrary, all of these names are White As Hell) but my name happens to have a number of alternate spellings, and the place I live has a sound in its name that's got a few different ways to say it. And I've grown up with a lot of people who've had similar situations.

I'd actually describe that as why I like the slightly inconsistent approach to pronunciation. Sure, it's annoying sometimes when I want to figure out the generally agreed-on way to say a more minor name, but not only does the looser approach feel more realistic, it also makes it a lot easier to discuss these things in, say, video content. Since it doesn't truly matter what sound you use to connect the 'Y' and 'S' in Y'shtola's name as long as you're clearly still saying 'Y'shtola', I didn't need to police myself when making a whole dang video about her, nor did I need to stress too hard about noticing that I approach pronouncing her and her sister's names differently ('yish-tola' versus 'ee-mitra'). VERY useful when dealing with a game with a whole bunch of weird fantasy names with a diverse amount of language inspirations and pronunciation rules in the first place! Seriously, god help you if you need to read a script that involves multiple Sea Wolf names.