(05-30-2014, 10:51 AM)Clover Wrote:(05-30-2014, 10:46 AM)K Wrote: For my character, her name is K'ailia, which she pronounces as Kay-lee-ah. So when you drop the K, it has an entirely different sound, and to me, that's not her name. So to me, the tribe letter became part of my characters name which is based off of other games incarnation of this character which were named Kailia.About pronunciations, I *think* K'ailia's name shouldn't actually be "Kay-lee-ah". Unless I'm mistaken and understood it completely wrong (which could be the case), the lore stated that the initial K is read as ku/coo, followed by any name. The sound of the initial letter is not mixed with the following name; it has its own sound, unrelated to what follows it.
Oh yes I am aware of the K's sound. But at the same time, there's names like K'ile, which according to K'nahli's post, is pronounced possibly like:
K'ile (Keel // Kee - L[e])Â
Which makes the K part of the name. Which is the approach I took with K'ailia, especially after her exile. I've no way to physically change her name, so she merely changed the pronunciation which sounds a lot better than:
Kuu-ay-lee-ah
Which is not the name I was really all that comfortable with. It sounds a lot better as:
Kay-lee-ah
But the best way to understand the sound though would be to hit the sound button on either the spanish or french part of this translation link:
https://translate.google.com/#es/fr/K’ailia
You can pretty much put any tribe members names in there to see how they sound, which is interesting
