In most settings I find that use the spelling, daemon is just pronounced and used interchangeable with demon, but in Pathfinder daemons and demons are two entirely distinct races, so I assume there's some special way to pronounce them?
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I believe it's "damon", as in Matt Damon. The e being silent.
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The www.pathfinderwiki.com entry on Daemons says "DAY-mon".
But I would be up for a serious rename -- since these are not established with their current name as the other 2 major Evil Outsider (sub)types, but given that "Yugoloth" is probably IP of Wizards of the Coast, and given that they are now the incarnations of horrible ways to die, "Yugothane" seems appropriate.
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DAMON!!!
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It's supposed to be DAY-muhn, but honestly daemon is just an archaic way of spelling demon.
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It's supposed to be DAY-muhn, but honestly daemon is just an archaic way of spelling demon.
not really, in the transition from latin to becoming Demon meaning being from hell it lost many of it's older meanings.
Daemon's for instance are what the Greeks and Romans basically called the thoughts in your head. Both the ones that gave you advice and the ones that lead you "astray". It was thought most of the voices in your head came from divine sources, and so they attributed most of them to some kind of entity known as daemons. Your best ideas came from the gods themselves, usually...
so like everything, Christianity rebranded the old belief as something else. *shrug*
I pronounce it da-emon. It's probably wrong, but then I'm not the one who came up with the idea to essentially re-use a word.
obviously it;s pronounced DY-E-Moa-N.
just like gif is pronounced Gzhaif.
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Only for Unix to change it back.It's supposed to be DAY-muhn, but honestly daemon is just an archaic way of spelling demon.not really, in the transition from latin to becoming Demon meaning being from hell it lost many of it's older meanings.
Daemon's for instance are what the Greeks and Romans basically called the thoughts in your head. Both the ones that gave you advice and the ones that lead you "astray". It was thought most of the voices in your head came from divine sources, and so they attributed most of them to some kind of entity known as daemons. Your best ideas came from the gods themselves, usually...
so like everything, Christianity rebranded the old belief as something else. *shrug*
I assume you mean how Daemon is the proper term for a program running in the back ground of your computer currently?
yeah, that's right people, you're computer is running several hundred daemons at any given time.
For the sake of clarity, "daemon" would have to be pronounced differently than "demon" even if both words have a common origin. The alternative would be to spell the word every time you say it, which would be ridiculous.
Does anyone else in the thread realize that this exact discussion has been going on since 1983, or even earlier?
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I spell them yugoloth.
Does anyone else in the thread realize that this exact discussion has been going on since 1983, or even earlier?
pointing out the obvious here, but discussions on how to say things have been around since people could talk. Hell it might have been one of the first subjects.
Think of all the debate over gif, and how it's obviously pronounced Gzhaif.
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Yugoloth is great... but it makes me sort of wonder where the serboloths, kroaloths, bosnoloths and monteloths are.
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Well as a kroatoloth myself, I will endeavor to find the others nearby. One of my friends has a serboloth boyfriend, and a bosnoloth is my co-worker.
Does anyone else in the thread realize that this exact discussion has been going on since 1983, or even earlier?
Yeah to a degree, but Pathfinder is the first game I've seen where daemons and demons are separate things entirely, which makes the distinction a lot more important to make.
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Day-mon. Fighter of the Night-mo-
I-I mean, I pronounce it correctly. I hope. XD
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Daemon (Ah-ah-ah), Fighter of the Nightmon (ah-ah-ah)
EDIT: Ninja'd
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Day-mon. Fighter of the Night-mo-
I-I mean, I pronounce it correctly. I hope. XD
Always pay the troll toll.
Only for Unix to change it back.I assume you mean how Daemon is the proper term for a program running in the back ground of your computer currently?
yeah, that's right people, you're computer is running several hundred daemons at any given time.
And, they like to fork children!!
Does anyone else in the thread realize that this exact discussion has been going on since 1983, or even earlier?pointing out the obvious here, but discussions on how to say things have been around since people could talk. Hell it might have been one of the first subjects.
Yeah to a degree, but Pathfinder is the first game I've seen where daemons and demons are separate things entirely, which makes the distinction a lot more important to make.
The context is D&D, so the 1983 date is not one I picked out of a hat.
Look under "D"Evidently the answer to my question was a simple "no."
James Jacobs has answered this before!
We pronounce it DAY-mon. It's not technically right, but then again, the creatures they represent are entirely fanciful and not (for the most part) from mythology, so that's fine.Heyo chief! Hopefully you're recovering from the Con.
Question for really no good reason but my own curiosity. How does Paizo intend "daemon" to be pronounced?
In modern English the "ae" (which I'm assuming is "æ") is usually pronounced like a long "e". Obviously, that would make things a bit confusing, what with all the demons running around. I think it's safe to assume that pronunciation is right out...
So, I'm assuming the first syllable is pronounced like "day"?
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I pronounce it NIHILISTS!! Say what you will about demonic destruction, at least it's an ethos.
Well, multiple online dictionaries all say that the two words are pronounced exactly the same. I couldn't find one that indicates any different pronunciation for "daemon."
Etymologically speaking, "daemon" is merely an alternative spelling for "demon" that was used in antiquity in certain specialized areas.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=daemon
ITS PRONOUNCED DY-E-Moa-N!
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It's pronounced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12KHcSQiVz0
Daemon is pronounced "Erik Mona."
As in fighter of the nightman, champion of the sun
It's the ye olde spelling for demon so it's pronounced the same.
It's the ye olde spelling for demon so it's pronounced the same.
As it happens, applying that logic to in-game terms isn't a given. Yes, I get it, nouns tend to reflect their real-world counterparts, but in-game the word refers to something distinct and different from demon, so it makes sense that the word would not be a homonym.
I believe it's "damon", as in Matt Damon. The e being silent.
I taught him it was "damon"
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"Exterminatus"
It's the only way to be sure.
"Exterminatus"
It's the only way to be sure.
still doesn't work half the time...
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DYE-MOAN
It is closer to the Greek pronunciation.
DYE-MOAN
It is closer to the Greek pronunciation.
Classical Latin, too, says DYE-MOAN.
