Pronounciations

[Lady]

Well good point that its not really made in "my" English. SE has always been worldly with its pronunciations.. all the Limsa pirate names or when in FFXI my first response to bordeaux was "wtf..?!" bored..e..a..u..x..?-

Its all good though because the way I say it (Roegaydrn) now is really wrong (because I remembered the wrong spelling for too long lol).

I remember hearing my BF at the time say he was killing oozes in "Bor-Ducks" hahaha

[Vilhem]

Of curious note is how the English version of this game calls midlanders "Hyur" but the other versions call them "Hyuran". Someone suggested this was because of our tendency in English to associate -an as an adjective, so it was shortened to "hyur". I still think "Hyuran" sounds better, but then again I'm not monolingual so I can see beyond the -an thing :< lol

[Obsy]

Haha yeah I know I've gotten my fair share of comments "did you just smash keys on your kb when making that name" etc.

Heh! I got asked once if I was an OB-GYN because of my name.

[Goufunaki]

Merlwyb: Maiwaifu
Hyur: Hurr

[Vilhem]

Merlwyb: Maiwaifu
Hyur: Hurr

Hurrr duuurrr..someone call?

[yoshikwalla]

Ul'Dah - Ooool-deeeeuuuuuhhhhhhh

Thanalan - Tham-a-lam-a-man-a-labh

La Noscea - Luh Nahhhh-scheee-uhhhh

...

Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn - ????????

I'unno.

[Loggos]

Hyur: hee-yoor

Elezen: Eh-leh-zen

Miqo'te: Mee-koh-teh

roegadyn: Roo-gah-deen

the "oe" in the Roegadyn naming schemes makes the "oo" sound, not "oh". It more or less follows Dutch pronunciations of things (ie. j makes i/y sound).

Merlwyb Bloefiswyn: Merl-veeb Bloo-fees-vin

my chara's last name "Dijkstra": Dike-strah

You are right, I think. Besides the fact that oe is oo in Dutch it's also named in some wikis:
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Ro...ng_Conventions
(Another one was chrysalis but it seems like it was taken down.)
I assume that since they say it in the wiki it was somewhere confirmed by a dev (not sure of course) but it would make most sense to me.
Furthermore Merlwyb's family name Bloefhiswyn in katakana is "buruu-fuisu-uin" (probably pronounced "bruufisuin"-->Bloofiswin).

So it might be

roo-guh-dinn (or roo-gah-dinn)

Merl-vibb (apparently w is like v, which corresponds to the German w. However this is not consistent with the Japanese spelling. But I think Japanese have no "v"-sound in general so they need to "paraphrase" it, do they?)

bloo-fiss-vinn

bloo-mearl (was the name of a roe in limsa).


I pronounce "-fhis-" and "-wyb" rather shortly.
Probably due to the English "fish" which is spoken in a short manner and "wyb" probably because of the German "Weib" which is a middle age term for woman or wife and sounds almost like "-wyb" (and is also pronounced rather quickly).

I always thought it was mee-coh-tee, too.

Sorry, I just love languages. I'm sorta being nerdy right now. ^^;

[Vilhem]

It's an ancient species of cat, similar to yourself Molly, except they had black noses, and hairless tails. Shocking isn't it?!

[Vilhem]

Lol ya Bordeaux is the actual town in France (been there, its beautiful ><), and Bedeaux, the Quadav camp. Only difference pronunciation-wise is that "r". "Bor-doh" "Be-doh"

I am drawn to these types of names because its always fun to try and break them down and figure out why that name was chosen.

[Fantasia]

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