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OK, I know we had a discussion like this before, with the name Kyuss. So here is a new one (at least for me):
Kostchtchie - how in the hell do you pronounce this. I never really thought about it before, but the new article brought it to my attention. Any thoughts?
If there are any other names out their that people are curious about, go ahead and let us know so they can be discussed as well.
Cost-chee-et-chee; that's how I've said it since the first time I've seen it, but you have to slur the middle two syllables together (Cost-chiet-chee).
I know that's adding some vowl sounds, but I've seen it done in pronunciations of other names that lacked them in a spot, but are almost required for Western tongues to pronounce them.
Kostchtchie - how in the hell do you pronounce this. I never really thought about it before, but the new article brought it to my attention. Any thoughts?
According to the pronunciation guide in the Dragon Compendium Vol. 1 (reprinted from Dragon #93), it's pronounced:
KAS-tch-tch-ee
Say that one ten times fast.
Kostchtchie - how in the hell do you pronounce this. I never really thought about it before, but the new article brought it to my attention. Any thoughts?
According to the pronunciation guide in the Dragon Compendium Vol. 1 (reprinted from Dragon #93), it's pronounced:
KAS-tch-tch-ee
Say that one ten times fast.
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All right, whoever developed that as a pronunciation key has lost all priveleges to type ever again! That is completely useless and horrible in trying to pronounce the name.
I've always pronounced it KOSS-titch-ee.
The pronunciation guide in the Dragon Compendium was a low point in that book. :(
Kostchtchie - how in the hell do you pronounce this. I never really thought about it before, but the new article brought it to my attention. Any thoughts?
According to the pronunciation guide in the Dragon Compendium Vol. 1 (reprinted from Dragon #93), it's pronounced:
KAS-tch-tch-ee
Say that one ten times fast.
Isn't that also in the article from Dragon 345? I might be misremembering, but as I was looking through the article last night I could have sworn it had a pronunciation for that unpronounceable jumble of letters.
I would say it's two syllables, "kosch-chee". I agree it's very tempting to put an extra vowel in the middle, though, since in English we almost never have to say two "ch" sounds together, and certainly never in the same word.
Incidentally, this spelling is actually easier than it looks, as long as you know that "t" is part of the "ch" sound anyway. This means that you can effectively ignore the "t" part of "tch", giving us "Koschchie". You can resolve the double "ch" problem by putting in a double consonant/glottal stop, i.e. saying it like "kost-chee".
I'm with Lilith apart from where the accent is
kos-TICH-ie
I my games, we usually pronounce it:
"BILL"
Or the popular form, "FLARG-IN-NARGAN".
Or the popular form, "FLARG-IN-NARGAN".I my games, we usually pronounce it:
"BILL"
Guilty.
Now then, any other wacky names out there....Fharlanghn...
I my games, we usually pronounce it:
"BILL"
I've always just simplified it to "FAH-rl-awn", myself, as "Far-lang-un" sounds more like a monkey than a god. Though I may not be the best judge of that, since I always get Erythnul's gender mixed up. It sounds like a girl name to me!
I've been fortunate enough, though, to avoid running into any followers of "Pee-Lor" thus far. It's always been Peh or Pay, so far as I've seen.
Otyugh?
OH-tee-oog?
I have a player in my games who, upon seeing anything he can't immediately pronounce, just comes up with a somewhat similar jumble of syllables that he says in whatever wierd voice strikes him at the moment, making everyone laugh. The name typically becomes whatever he said, for most of the players at least. Sometimes he just changes a name to a similar word. Examples include:
OH-tee-tug (Otyugh)
Gwee-sha-MAR-me (Guisarme)
Halaluah (Halruaa)
The Shire (The Shaar)
Fhar-FHAR-fin-hangen (Fharlanghn)
I can't remember some of the things he's done to the names of various devils, but it isn't pretty.
Sexi Golem is one of the worst speakers in the world. He pronounces "Contagion" as "Con-tih-JEON" with a French accent. It took me three tries to understand what the heck he was talking about, before I finally corrected him. He had just never seen it spelled before. The name stuck, however, and he continues to subconsciously mispronounce the name. And he wonders why one foreign exchange student nicknamed him "Frenchy"....
I DMed for a player character named "Sephiroth" (link). He was level 4 before we found that out because he was pronouncing it "Zethrin".
I think Zethrin was a cooler name.
Fharlanghn...
I've always said "far-LONG-en".
Fahren is journey; lang is long in German.
I wonder if that was meant as an inside joke, the god of roads having a name that could be construed to mean 'long journey'.
That's been my take on it, anyway.
Being a younger gamer, I'm not sure who came up with it, but if the name goes back to Gygax and the earliest incarnations of the game, I would actually think he did set it up that way intentionally.