more name strangeinesses

O-nay-Psi-mus

Oh-neh-psi-moose

what do we get if we get it right?

Where did you guys get that P there?

And english is too much of a messed up language for me to properly tell you how i`d read that name

where did you get that word from?

thats what im thinking - where did the P come from?

@ REllik: Onesimus was a slave in constantinople, but ive pilfered the word to use as the noun for 'magic users' in the story im writing... sort of symbolic of them being 'slaves to the warp', to use an analogy people here will understand

well the way i imagine it (keeping into account that theres an accent above the E) its the beginning of Erus's version and the end of Steves... without that strange P

The 'p' before 'si' denotes that the 'i' is pronounced as in 'I walk', and the 'p' is silent. Otherwise it'd be 'i' as in the name, 'Sid'.

you mean aye rather than ih?

Yes. Personally, I'd pronounce it as O-ney-psi-mus, though it's a bit tricky.

O-ney seems a bit too american to me. i prefer a more latin bent to it. Oh-nei

Nay, ney and nei are all pronounced the same, lol, and 'O' is a common Latin and Greek pronunciation. It would only really be 'Oh' if it were Japanese, or another similar language.

Long live the romanian :P

Onesimus would be read as "onesimus" (the vouls sounding like the ones in: lOw, nEt, kIt, and i can`t think of a single word in english in which U is simple U and not IU or something like that :/ so.... think of glOOm)

@ Icarus Athrasuriel.

nay ney and nei are all pronounced differently

Nay: is a high, back long vowel

ney: is a round central closed vowel

nei: is a round, central open vowel

and it also depends on the articulation and closure of the consonants preceeding and following them.

but this is all getting very tedious and is almost imposible to argue properly cuz we cant hear the other guy's pronounciation its hard trying to say that 'O should be pronounceh Oh' when we could both be pronouncing Oh differently! lol

Nay, ney and nei are pronounced exactly the same...at least, that's how every Brit I've ever met pronounces them, and since I live in Britain, I tend to meet a lot of them. I don't know if it's just accents which cause different pronunciation in different areas, and different sets of pronunciations, but up here we've been taught to pronounce each one the same unless it has a preceding or following vowel (E.g. Onomatopoeia, is almost as if there is a 'w' instead of the 'o', as the 'o' is pronounced, but only very breifly, thus changing the pronunciation of 'ei'), bearing in mind we invented the language

But yeah, in my experience, and in that of every person I have ever known in my life, they are all pronounced the same.

By the way, why not post a thread like this on the forum, and play a game where the person who proposes a word knows how it is pronounced, and everyone else has to guess at the pronunciation, and the person who wins (Guesses first) proposes a new word.

but this is all getting very tedious and is almost imposible to argue properly cuz we cant hear the other guy's pronounciation its hard trying to say that 'O should be pronounceh Oh' when we could both be pronouncing Oh differently! lol


Yup, english = poor phonetics

But you could always SIMPLY RECORD YOURSELF AND POST THE AUDIO FILE.... you know?

@ Icarus, i would be disloyal competition

You`ll never gues some of the eastern words ever (provided english is your main language)

maltese has some strange words too

good idea for the thread actuall.

I said it before and i`ll say it again, here every word is spoken exactly as it`s written.

Only thing you have to remember is where the accent falls but even for that there are rules with minor ecxeptions for words that came into the language a lil` bit closer to modern times

do you mean here as in 40k terra or here as in where you live?

if its the latter i think its a very small argument with little wight. a foreigner listening to a liverpudlian talking with a glaswegian would be forgiven for thinking theyre speaking a different language. my mums from norfolk and still has a thick accent to hear her speak is like hearing someone trying to ruin the english language! (sorry mum )

every word has one way of ebing pronounced (which is what i think you mean), but is rarely pronounced the way it should.

i know, maltese farmers are very good at mispronouncing every maltese words, just as im sure all farmers areounf the world are proficient in doing

Where i live :P