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m-chant.livejournal.com

Soo...how does everyone pronounce the names?

Sounis: I say SO-NISS, though my mind tells me SUE-NISS.
Sounisian: I say SON-EE-ZHINZ, though my mind tells me SUE-NISS-EE-INZ.

Eddis: ED-DISS, or EE-DISS?
Eddisians: My mind says ED-DEE-ZHINZ, though my logic says ED-DISS-EE-INZ.

Attolia: AT-ALL-EE-AH, or AT-OH-LEE-AH?

Pol: POLE?

Sophos: My knowledge of Ancient Greek tells me SAW-FOSS, but might it be SO-FOESS?

Seperchia: SE-PEAR-KEY-AH?

Mede: MEAD? MEE-DEE? And Medes: MEADS? Or MEE-DEEZ?

Nahuseresh: Nah-HUH-Se-Resh?

Teleus: TEE-LEE-USS or TELL-EE-USS?

Erondites: My Ancient Greek-ness tells me AIR-ON-DIT-ACE (accent on DI), but I want to say AIR-ON-DITE-EASE.
Dite: DIT-AY? Or DIE-TEE?

Aristogiton: @_@. I'll leave this one open.

deirdrej.livejournal.com

Hi, everybody!

My sister Mary, my friend and colleague Maria, and I just had the most awesome conversation with MWT! We recorded it for a podcast, but, since Megan was extraordinarily generous with her time, we have cut it in two, and we'll be making two podcasts out of one interview!

I just put the first podcast up on line, and you can access it here

Enjoy, everybody! The second half will be up soon!

Current Mood: exhausted

filkferengi

Some folks hereabouts feel that the name Irene has an old lady vibe. It has been considered old-fashioned in some circles until recently, but maybe it's time we re-think it. Try pronouncing it differently. In French, it's pronounced EE-renn, in Spanish ee-RAY-na. This is extra-funny because the French & Spanish words for queen are pronounced renn [reine] & RAY-nah [reina]. So, in a way, her name says I-Queen [like we didn't already know--weg].

Another suggestion is to go out & read the Irene Adler mysteries by Carole Nelson Douglas, starting with _Goodnight, Mr. Holmes_ and _Good Morning, Irene_. Anything less old-ladyish than the intrepid Irene Adler would be hard to imagine. Best of all, by the time you find & read all 7 or 8 mysteries, ACoK will be out. I recommend earplugs to help with the inevitable squee.

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ladymoon-kora.livejournal.com

Ok, I've had this question for a while, but I keep forgetting to post. I was wondering what some of you thought about the pronounciation of "Dite." You see, I say it with a long i and no e sound at the end, but I noticed that the audiobook says Dit-e, long i and e at the end. (I hope this is making sense--I don't know how to do macrons on this). So what do you think?

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filkferengi

Remember in the first book, when Gen tells the Magus how to pronounce the country of Eddis? The Magus is all smug and condescending.

I was just remembering the 3rd book, when Kostis [upon whom be lots of happy emeralds ;)] noticed with shock that he had never noticed the king's accent sounding non-Attolian. Someone like Hugh Laurie can take on another accent and do it wonderfully well [the Gen-House connection is left as an exercise for the students], but even he gets a break now and then. I like being convivial and entertaining friends, but imagine having to be on-stage *all the time*, with a hostile audience, never being able to let down your guard, without anyone to ever relax completely with [he's still afraid of Irene] or even simply "talk right" with. Similar as the cultures are, still, the clothes, foods, smells, accents, are all bound to be different. In fact, judging by homesick friends I've heard living overseas, the more similar the culture, the more jarring the culture shock when they're *not like you*.

All this from the slender thread of one guard's belated realization. The more you pull on it, the more it unravels whole layers of feeling: loneliness, loss, betrayal, hope, etc. But then, good writers are like that. And mwt is undoubtedly a very good writer.

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aged-crone.livejournal.com

I was pondering some of the questions we have; perhaps MWT would be more inclined to answer them if they were presented in another format. Like ( this ). I know I've forgotten some, but it's a start.

Three more verses added! Pop by and see them!

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Current Music: only of the spheres, and I can't hear it

srowan.livejournal.com

Hi everyone

I was re-reading King of Attolia this weekend (and enjoying all of the discussions on the listserv) and had a couple of questions.

I couldn't find the word "granched" in the dictionary or on wiki (Gen threatens to have some attendants granched in KofA when they want him to stop climbing on the roof of the palace). I just had to define it for someone at work after telling them (jokingly) that I would him granched if he didn't turn in something to me by noon. I used to threaten to march him over to the zoo and feed them to the yak but this has since proved to be a hollow threat. Does anyone know where it's from? Is it French? We spent a fair amount of time this morning trying to figure out where it came from. He asked me where I heard it and I told him I read it somewhere...

Also, in my re-read, I am trying to figure out how much Ornon knew of Gen's plans for acting like a buffoon up front. Attolia seems to know what is going on but Ornon seems to be pretty nervous for a while that Gen is actually failing and there is that great scene where he's trying to glare at Gen at dinner and he wonders if The Thief is gone forever. What do people think?

Sam

karatelunch.livejournal.com

This may be the crazy girl who comes out at 2:30 in the morning talking, but I think these lyrics fit beautifully with Gen and Attolia and all that razzmatazz. (On a slightly side-ish note, I'm going to call the Queen Attolia; I've really been trying to reconcile "Irene" in my head, but I almost feel like I'm intruding on something personal. If I may mesh my fandoms atrociously, it's like Mulder calling Scully "Dana" in the X-Files - so rare and intimate that one feels uncomfortable witnessing it. She's "Attolia" in QoA, and that was my literary bible for a good long while, so Attolia she shall stay. Lyrics below the cut! Good morning!)

( Hallelujah )

jyms.livejournal.com

i don't know if someone has already posted about this, or if you all know about it already. just thought it was interesting. though the info is kind of thick.

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hope it was interesting to you =)
went digging this up cause i remembered there was a perseo-mede empire, and i thought does it have any similarities to medea?

and i have a question: according to Megan in the deleted thread, Erondites is pronounced as EAR-on-die-tees. so, Dite is pronounced die-tee? i always thought it was just 'dight'.

Current Mood: okay
Current Location: home =)
Current Music: classical on the radio. no idea what it is.

sandtree.livejournal.com

I think there was a topic like this a while ago, but I figured since there are new people, and since we're all doing the read aloud thing, it might be fun to bring up again.

So, how do you pronounce certain words and names in the books? And maybe you could tell where you live as well, because accents might play into it. It think it would be interesting to see all the different ways that people pronounce things.

Eugenides: yoo-jen-EYE-dees
Magus: MAY-jus
Attolia: ah-TOLL-ee-ah
Eddis: EE-dis
Sounis: SOO-nis
Nahuseresh: na-HOO-ser-esh

And more that I can't think of, I'm sure.

Current Mood: curious

coricurbob.livejournal.com

I'm rereading The Thief in order to get geared up for The King of Attolia - my oh my, rereading is so much sweeter than the first time around, GETTING ALL THE FORESHADOWING - and I suddenly had a thought. All the time I have pronounced our Queen's Thief's name "YOO-jen-eyds." But I was reading, and I read Ambiades's name for the thousandth time, and I realized that I pronounce it "am-BY-uh-deez." This seems correct to me, based on my small knowledge of and experience with Greek and Greekish words and names. And I looked at Eugenides's name again - and realized it could also be pronounced "yoo-JEN-uh-deez," possibly more accurately. Or also "yoo-jen-I-deez." I'm not sure what I feel about either of these, or about possibly changing the way I pronounce the name, but I have a compulsion to at least know the truth. Or the general consensus of what the truth might be.

And so my questions to you, my newly-found fellow fans, are
a) How do you pronounce Eugenides?
b) How do you intellectually think it SHOULD be pronounced?
c) What about the pronunciations of various other interesting names that I can't think of at the moment?

To recap, my answers are
a) YOO-jen-eyds (rhymes with...er...you jen rides)
b) Possibly "yoo-JEN-uh-deez"
c) I can't think of any at the moment.

Thank you very much, in advance!

EDIT: For reference, the general consenus seems to be, and the audiobooks seem to say, that the proper thing to do would be to pronounce it
yoo-JEN-uh-deez
However, we have a fairly wide array of other ways to pronounce it, too. Extremely interesting!
Thank you all very much, again, for your input!

Current Mood: contemplative

rowana.livejournal.com

We're getting very close to the publishing date for The King of Attolia now, but Caroline found a great page full of great discussion questions for The Queen of Attolia, so we figured a new thread would be the best place to discuss them - and to ask other burning questions, like 'Who was the Goddess at the end of TQoA?', or to just speculate on the upcoming book.

They can all be found here: http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0380733048&tc=rg

( So, to start us off )

Also, everyone check out the continuously updated Spoilers thread for more teasers and summaries. :)

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