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Barin 07-07-05, 12:06 PM	Hi, everyone. I just wonder how to speak unique name? For example, Imaskari, which means the socerers ruled Imaskar. Can I find any place to get some information how to pronouncite them? Plz let me know...
CuttinCurt 07-07-05, 12:11 PM	make it up on your own. However, if you really want to know to pronouunce Imaskari, I will give you my opinion on how it is done... Im'-mas-car-ee Anyone disagree? :D CC
GnomeBoy 07-07-05, 10:04 PM	Reminds me when a friend asked R A Salvatore (sp?) at a book signing, how do you pronounce Drow? ...rhymes with cow, or rhymes with low? The answer was, whichever you prefer.... ...honest. PS Remeber, it is YOUR game.
arrianna 07-08-05, 02:32 AM	I'm pretty sure this would depend on your foreign language exposure. Most romance languages (which dominate the languages that use the phonecian alphabet) do not diferentiate much on word stress and vowel formation. That is why Italian and Spanish sound so similar in speech (and to a large drgree french if you lose the nasality). I'm no linguist, but I do speak 3 languages and had to learn to pronounce 3 more for my degree. English, on the other hand, is a germanic language that breaks more rules than it follows. Most who speak only English would pronounce specific names with a much different inflection than people who are multi-lingual. That's why most americans are said to have a pronounced accent when in Europe. It follows, then, that you can pronounce these however you choose. I would tend to agree with the first reply on the pronunciation of the example. Eem-as-kah-ree
GothicDan 07-08-05, 09:03 PM	The answer was, whichever you prefer.... ...honest. PS Remeber, it is YOUR game. Too bad that RAS was wrong. ;) As it's rather regularly known nowadays in FR to be derived from dhaereow, which was pronounced similar to "day-row," and all. But I'm more the type to ask, "Why change canon?" rather than "Why keep canon?" Unless there's a specific reason for change, I see no need in it.