Is it "Pay-zo" or "Pie-zo"? Or something else like "Pee-zo"?
Pie-zo.
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Is it "Pay-zo" or "Pie-zo"? Or something else like "Pee-zo"?
I try not to get the pronunciation correct for fear that it would summon into being a golem that would pound me into paste. I wouldn't be nearly as happy as paste as I am now.
I personally pronounce it "the dudes that make Pathfinder".....:P
Pie-zo for me.
It's Pie-zo.
OK! That settles it then. Thanks!
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Pizzow!
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Don't say it three times in a row... otherwise the Golem will show up!
PAIZO PAIZO PAIZO
Okay big fella, LET'S BRAWL
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PAZ-ee-oh.
Like it is spelled... ever drink a Mai-Tai, how did you pronounce that? If you pronounced that correctly, then you already know how to pronounce Paizo. Simple.
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Actually, proper pronunciation would be Pe-ezo. As it is an ancient greek word that means 'to play'. But i believe most people call it pie-zo. I do.
Its not just the ancient greek word. It is the modern greek word, and you are correct that its pronounced Peh-zo (in greek a and i together make an eh sound). But since paizo staff including Lisa call it Paizo (you can listed to interviews in the various paizocon and gencon recordings Know Direction has done) it seems to me that it doesnt matter what the greeks say. If Lisa says its Pie-zoh then thats how its pronounced.
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I pronounce it with a heavy sigh after looking at my empty wallet.
Yeah Irontooth, you smile at what you bought...thank god for Paizo...then look at your wallet....and damn paizo to hell...
That said still love me some Pie-zo
I've always emphasized the "a" and made it almost three syllables, pa-ie-zo (with the "a" and the "ie" sort of merging).
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Traditional speech is a tool of the bourgeoisie meant to shackle the proletariat. I have unburdened myself from the yoke of archaic manipulations of the tongue and choose to "pronounce" Paizo by blowing air across the mouth of a Royal Crown Cola bottle while spilling a bucket of dice onto a sheet of corrugated aluminum suspended above a kitten playing with a paper sandwich bag.
Man I miss being able to have caffeine. Stupid doctor's orders. =(
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Actually, proper pronunciation would be Pe-ezo. As it is an ancient greek word that means 'to play'. But i believe most people call it pie-zo. I do.
Actually, from my years of studying ancient Greek (Attic dialect, taught by a masterful Italian polyglot), my understanding is that the alpha-iota is a digraph, not a diphthong, meaning the two-letter combination would be monosyllabic and create, in effect, a long I sound, akin to the maritime affirmative "aye-aye, Captain."
I don't have my Athenaze textbook on hand to double check, but I was taught that zeta also carries with it a slight D sound at the end. Further, the omega creates what I would describe as a heavier O sound that sometimes sounds more like an "uh" than an "O."
Finally, with the penultimate accent, the emphasis would be on the first syllable.
All of this is based on my training in ancient Greek, not modern Greek, and I understand that at least with epsilon, eta, and iota the vowel sound is slightly different than I was taught—particularly in modern Greek's favoring the long E sound. With understandable bias, I prefer the ancient Greek pronunciation.
All together, here's how things sound:
Ancient Greek: PIE-zdoh
Around the office: PIE-zo
Awww...now I miss studying Greek.
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Some dude ranting about the state of tabletop games (wargames and RPGs) on YouTube a few years back kept pronouncing it pee-yat-zo.
Which was only one thing that made him difficult to take seriously.
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Actually, proper pronunciation would be Pe-ezo. As it is an ancient greek word that means 'to play'. But i believe most people call it pie-zo. I do.
Actually, from my years of studying ancient Greek (Attic dialect, taught by a masterful Italian polyglot), my understanding is that the alpha-iota is a digraph, not a diphthong, meaning the two-letter combination would be monosyllabic and create, in effect, a long I sound, akin to the maritime affirmative "aye-aye, Captain."
I don't have my Athenaze textbook on hand to double check, but I was taught that zeta also carries with it a slight D sound at the end. Further, the omega creates what I would describe as a heavier O sound that sometimes sounds more like an "uh" than an "O."
Finally, with the penultimate accent, the emphasis would be on the first syllable.
All of this is based on my training in ancient Greek, not modern Greek, and I understand that at least with epsilon, eta, and iota the vowel sound is slightly different than I was taught—particularly in modern Greek's favoring the long E sound. With understandable bias, I prefer the ancient Greek pronunciation.
All together, here's how things sound:
Ancient Greek: PIE-zdoh
Around the office: PIE-zoAwww...now I miss studying Greek.
This site has a button to play the (alleged) Greek pronunciation (it also has an annoying pop-up).
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I took ancient greek back in school, too, and I can fully confirm John Compton's elaborations.
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It is pronounced "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Ia! Ia!"
Didn't we say we would reveal this at the first 'World of PaizoCon' after the maximum distribution of the game was reached, sobillions of curious customers would try to repeat after you...
Blimey! Not agian...
Nothing to see here!
Drist sounds like something between a mist and a drizzle.
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It's spelled "Paizo", but it is pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove".
I know a guy who pronounces it pee-ah-zo. Like, as if it's spelled Piazo.com.
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I pronounce it like a Finnish person would.
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More like "Pie-zo" with an annoyed grunt, though my own gripes with Pathfinder might affect that :D
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I pronounce it like a Finnish person would."Kykkihakkimalllatyttakoollmamma"?
No, "Kykkihakkimallatyttakoollmammää".
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Damn umlauts, they'll trip you over every time.No, "Kykkihakkimallatyttakoollmammää".I pronounce it like a Finnish person would."Kykkihakkimalllatyttakoollmamma"?
And I have always questioned how is speaking with so few vocals on Polish ^^.
I always pronounce exactly like is written, and many times feels surprised that is the correct one. It's written Paizo, ergo , I pronounce Paizo. Spanish is like that.
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Hey, for all the bloody complexity of our language, we honestly claim to have the most straightforward pronunciation of all the languages on this planet - once you get how to pronounce a polish letter, you're golden and you never run into "corpse, corps, horse, and worse" problems that plague English and other "easy" languages.
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Hey, for all the bloody complexity of our language, we honestly claim to have the most straightforward pronunciation of all the languages on this planet - once you get how to pronounce a polish letter, you're golden and you never run into "corpse, corps, horse, and worse" problems that plague English and other "easy" languages.
See here, bag, that is not a bug of the English language, it is a feature. It enables the easy identifciation of Johnny Foreigner when he gets confused. It is hardly our fault that such a complex pristine and adaptable language is beyond the inferior minds of those not blessed to be English.
Quite so, old bean, quite so.
Hey, for all the bloody complexity of our language, we honestly claim to have the most straightforward pronunciation of all the languages on this planet - once you get how to pronounce a polish letter, you're golden and you never run into "corpse, corps, horse, and worse" problems that plague English and other "easy" languages.
Is it like hungarian in that regard? In that language there is only one pronounciation for each letter, except for a number of specific letter combinations whichb each also have exactly one pronounciation.