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The series 'Game Geeks', which is a YouTube show that reviews various niche RPG's, recently reviewed the Pathfinder RPG Beta. Rather a good, positive review, and its nice to see some publicity for the Beta.
I think he keeps mispronouncing Paizo though, heh. Its a good little series though, plenty of reviews of games you might not have heard of. Worth checking out.
That's cool. I've bookmarked his YouTube channel :)
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nice enough review but inaccurate in a few places.
Badly mangling the Paizo name.
Review of Rogues is off, and 0 level spells is not descried correctly. Other than that not too bad.
Pie-Zo, not Pa-is-io. :)
But then again it is a weird name... only serious weird geeks would come up with a name like that...
I believe it's actually "Pay-zo", but hey, you've got to love the wacky English language with all its multiple pronunciations, dialects and linguistc variations.
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I believe it's actually "Pay-zo", but hey, you've got to love the wacky English language with all its multiple pronunciations, dialects and linguistc variations.
Scroll riiiiight to the bottom of the page.
General Paizo QuestionsWhat does "Paizo" mean?
Paizo cofounder Johnny Wilson suggested the name, which comes from a biblical Greek word meaning "to play." (The original Greek word is "paiðzw.")How do you pronounce "Paizo?"?
We pronounce it to rhyme with "pie dough."
;)
I believe it's actually "Pay-zo", but hey, you've got to love the wacky English language with all its multiple pronunciations, dialects and linguistc variations.Scroll riiiiight to the bottom of the page.
General Paizo QuestionsWhat does "Paizo" mean?
Paizo cofounder Johnny Wilson suggested the name, which comes from a biblical Greek word meaning "to play." (The original Greek word is "paiðzw.")How do you pronounce "Paizo?"?
We pronounce it to rhyme with "pie dough."
;)
Well the suggested pronounciations are way off, should be pronounced
"peh- zoh".Same infuriating thing when I hear war gamers (DBA/DBM players)pronouncing psiloi as "psi-loy" when the "oi" should be an "e".
Cheers
Shows what I know then! I remember asking Jason at UK GenCon how it was pronounced and I thought he said "Pay-zo", but that must have been my mistake :)
What is a paizo actually?
Well, according to the person above us, it's from the Greek verb "to play".
I believe it's actually "Pay-zo", but hey, you've got to love the wacky English language with all its multiple pronunciations, dialects and linguistc variations.Scroll riiiiight to the bottom of the page.
General Paizo QuestionsWhat does "Paizo" mean?
Paizo cofounder Johnny Wilson suggested the name, which comes from a biblical Greek word meaning "to play." (The original Greek word is "paiðzw.")How do you pronounce "Paizo?"?
We pronounce it to rhyme with "pie dough."
;)Well the suggested pronounciations are way off, should be pronounced
"peh- zoh".Same infuriating thing when I hear war gamers (DBA/DBM players)pronouncing psiloi as "psi-loy" when the "oi" should be an "e".
Cheers
I'm guessing you are Greek? Most people who learn Ancient Greek outside of Greece learn a hypothetical (and probably really inaccurate for any age) system of pronunciation that is far from the modern pronunciation. So according to this academic pronunuciation, it would indeed be pie-zoh or pie-dzoh, instead of the modern peh-zoh.
I'm guessing you are Greek? Most people who learn Ancient Greek outside of Greece learn a hypothetical (and probably really inaccurate for any age) system of pronunciation that is far from the modern pronunciation. So according to this academic pronunuciation, it would indeed be pie-zoh or pie-dzoh, instead of the modern peh-zoh.
Partially ... never did ancient greek (Latin was my forte when I was a kid)so I wouldn't know about pronunciation of the old dialect/spelling. But from an academic point of view as you say it may be the correct way. I've used the modern greek pronunciation as you rightly point out.
I'm guessing you are Greek? Most people who learn Ancient Greek outside of Greece learn a hypothetical (and probably really inaccurate for any age) system of pronunciation that is far from the modern pronunciation. So according to this academic pronunuciation, it would indeed be pie-zoh or pie-dzoh, instead of the modern peh-zoh.Partially ... never did ancient greek (Latin was my forte when I was a kid)so I wouldn't know about pronunciation of the old dialect/spelling. But from an academic point of view as you say it may be the correct way. I've used the modern greek pronunciation as you rightly point out.
Neh! They are correctly pronouncing it (incorrectly). :)
Of course, once we get Greek settled, the controversy about how to pronounce Latin can get heated up...|
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I believe it's actually "Pay-zo", but hey, you've got to love the wacky English language with all its multiple pronunciations, dialects and linguistc variations.
Actually it is Greek, not English.
I made a thread ages ago about the pronunciation and the Paizo folks said it is Pie-zo, that is a long I and a long O.
Thanks for pointing this out, Uzzy. I've sent it to some people who are wondering what Pf is all about.