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Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Tadir - 08-06-2010
Actually, thaw mah terj
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Darkfae - 08-06-2010
Aveline Wrote:The names of the gods are what get me. I constantly have to look up Nymeia, for example. "Roegadyn" just sounds so clunky on the tongue, I usually shorten it to Roeg (pronouncing it "rogue").I'm still trying to memorize the entire FFXIV pantheon too. For some reason, it's been a lot harder than it was in other games, though that may just be due to how sparse the information is about each one - I really haven't seen anything beyond the little blurbs in the character creation screens.
As for pronunciation, I tend to lean toward Japanese-esque annunciations. So "Roegadyn" struck me as Row-aa-gah-dyen.
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Boots - 08-06-2010
I could have sworn it was Tau-ma-turj.
But apparently, I'm wrong. the TH is correct.
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Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Tadir - 08-06-2010
Thaum refers to magic in fantasy terminology. It is pronounced thawm.
Thaumaturge is one who works magic.
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Kashemia - 08-06-2010
Tadir Wrote:Thaum refers to magic in fantasy terminology. It is pronounced thawm.
Thaumaturge is one who works magic.
I had no idea! Thank you for that explanation, that makes so much sense
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Tadir - 08-06-2010
For anyone really interested...
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and
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Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Rikitiki - 08-06-2010
Although I'm pretty sure it wasn't canon, sometimes my FFXI character (Ruro-Kuro) would discuss obscure points of magical theory, in which a "thaum" was a unit of measurement of magical power. I'm pretty sure I appropriated that from Terry Pratchett's Discworld, though.
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Tadir - 08-06-2010
I love you
Thaumaturgy was an accepted term outside of the diskworld, but Terry Pratchett was the one who claimed the thaum as the basic unit of magic.
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Eltharian - 08-07-2010
Pugilist
How is that pronounced?
Pew-gil-ist
Pew-jil-ist
pug-il-ist
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Tyriont - 08-07-2010
pyoo-juh-list
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pugilist
So your second option would be the closest one.
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Eltharian - 08-07-2010
Ahh ok, thanks.
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Tadir - 08-07-2010
Wow, I never realized that. I always pronounced it Pew Gah List.
Pew Jah List huh?
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Satisiun - 08-08-2010
Aveline Wrote:Maybe if they put in female Roegadyns? :mrgreen:
Baby steps. First they need to actually implement female Highlander Hyurs.
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Aveline - 08-08-2010
Satisiun Wrote:What? Square-Enix actually implement something that people want? Oh, such dreams, such dreams..Aveline Wrote:Maybe if they put in female Roegadyns? :mrgreen:
Baby steps. First they need to actually implement female Highlander Hyurs.
Any~way, something I've noticed is that a lot of people still refer to the world as Eorzea, when Hydaelyn (sp? I never remember where the "a" goes) is the name of the world itself. Eorzea = Aldenard continent and Vylbrand island.
Re: Common mistakes when speaking about FFXIV - Garaf - 08-08-2010
I am still, and likely always will, refer to them as Galka. And I will frequently call the others Mithra, Tarus, Elvaan, and Humes. Given this very particular scenario with SE "adapting" the previous races (and the fact I find the previous names to be easier to say/remember/use) I find little problem with this (so long as it's not in an IC context). Especially since I imagine most of the people who'll play XIV also played XI so they'll be familiar with these terms.
I also keep trying to devise new abbreviations for the classes. So far I'm up to PUG, THM, ACR, GLD, MAD, BOT, MNR, etc. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were already a list of these up somewhere that have been all approved and discussed and such and I'm just woefully uninformed.