[OOC] Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

[Muttonhawk]

Hey @Cyclone, how do you pronounce Xos? Does it rhyme with moss, morse, or comatose?

[Cyclone]

@Muttonhawk

This reminds me of when someone asked how to say Jvan and was told, "You don't!"

I think Termite actually just said, "I got a way of saying it but I won't say bc I want u all to say it wrong lul"

As tempting as it is to just laugh and not answer, it rhymes with 'comatose'.

[Muttonhawk]

Cheers. Thankfully, I used the mystery as inspiration for a section in my next post, so prepare yourselves for diacritics, boys and girls!

[Antarctic Termite]

@Muttonhawk

This reminds me of when someone asked how to say Jvan and was told, "You don't!"

I think Termite actually just said, "I got a way of saying it but I won't say bc I want u all to say it wrong lul"

@Cyclone

More like, I found the diversity of answers fascinating and I wanted people to build up the character in their heads without forcing a 'correct' interpretation. i wrote a whole IC post on the million different ways she was known just to give you ideas

But in case anyone is dissatisfied with their own reading, here's the most closely guarded secret of the cancer that blogs...

spoiler

nice try lol

I pronounce the 'j' as 'jam' and add a quick syllable into it. JUH-VAHN, clipped and shortened, J'VAHN. JVAN. Jvan!

The alternate pronunciation with J as Y was always something I'd had in mind, though.

Another thing I'd always considered was the similarity to the unspeakable name of the Abrahamic God, YHWH, or Jehovah. Jeh-vah. J-vah(n). I gave Y'vahn to the humans in that old name post because it was the closest thing to what I'd fallen into the habit of using, made a little more sense, and resembles another version of YHWH, 'Yahweh'.

The Rovaick name 'Yah Vuh' is another play on the same. Her 'I am who I am' chant is too, though I found nice story reasons for it later.

Hain and Tauga got 'Jaan' because it's the easiest possible interpretation, just silencing the annoying consonant that breaks up the name.

[Muttonhawk]

Huh, I always thought the hain got Jaan because their lips aren't as wormy as other races are, so Jvan might end up sounding like 'Juh-thahn' or 'Juh-fahn' or something.

I guess those two are yet more to add to the list.

[Cyclone]

Where did Juk Fonk come from?

[Kho]

I just say it as it's written, a one-syllable Jvan. Literally 'van' with a 'J' at the beginning. The J kind of melts into the V - and it does so quite well. Much easier than saying knight how it is spelt.

As for Y'van, which is what the Vetruvians call her. I actually pronounce it 'Ee-van'. Our local Jvan Evans.

[Muttonhawk]

...Much easier than saying knight how it is spelt.

@Kho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBHPmYIxaiI&t=11

[Rtron]

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More like, I found the diversity of answers fascinating and I wanted people to build up the character in their heads without forcing a 'correct' interpretation. i wrote a whole IC post on the million different ways she was known just to give you ideas

But in case anyone is dissatisfied with their own reading, here's the most closely guarded secret of the cancer that blogs...

spoiler

nice try lol

I pronounce the 'j' as 'jam' and add a quick syllable into it. JUH-VAHN, clipped and shortened, J'VAHN. JVAN. Jvan!

The alternate pronunciation with J as Y was always something I'd had in mind, though.

Another thing I'd always considered was the similarity to the unspeakable name of the Abrahamic God, YHWH, or Jehovah. Jeh-vah. J-vah(n). I gave Y'vahn to the humans in that old name post because it was the closest thing to what I'd fallen into the habit of using, made a little more sense, and resembles another version of YHWH, 'Yahweh'.

The Rovaick name 'Yah Vuh' is another play on the same. Her 'I am who I am' chant is too, though I found nice story reasons for it later.

Hain and Tauga got 'Jaan' because it's the easiest possible interpretation, just silencing the annoying consonant that breaks up the name.

@Antarctic Termite

HA. I KNEW I WAS SAYING IT RIGHT.

[Antarctic Termite]

I just say it as it's written, a one-syllable Jvan.

@Kho

Yep, that's what I was going for.

Where did Juk Fonk come from?

@Cyclone

K is just a really great guttural letter you can slap on anything to make it sound orky. Gork. Mork. Dakka. Mekboyz. Kommando. Kult of Speed!

[Kho]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBHPmYIxaiI&t=11

@Muttonhawk

For the longest time I accepted that pronunciation, but in recent years I have grown rather disenchanted with it - largely due to the fact that the letter 'H' is not pronounced as clearly as it is written. I believe a more appropriate pronunciation would go something like this:

KIN-EYE-JJJJJJ-HHHHHH-IT

(You know you're saying it right when you're feeling like you're about to have a heart attack.)

[Lauder]

K is just a really great guttural letter you can slap on anything to make it sound orky. Gork. Mork. Dakka. Mekboyz. Kommando. Kult of Speed!

@Antarctic Termite

WE DEM BOIS

WAAAGH!!!

IMA GUT YA WIF ME TEEF!

[Vec]

I always pronounced it Zvan.

[Cyclone]

For the longest time I just said it like Ivan but the Y'Vahn and Yivvin eventually had their turns at being my head-canon.

[Slime]

So just me and Rtron that pronounced Jvan right?

[Scarifar]

Probably. I mean, I've always thought of it as Juh-van.

[Muttonhawk]

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For the longest time I accepted that pronunciation, but in recent years I have grown rather disenchanted with it - largely due to the fact that the letter 'H' is not pronounced as clearly as it is written. I believe a more appropriate pronunciation would go something like this:

KIN-EYE-JJJJJJ-HHHHHH-IT

(You know you're saying it right when you're feeling like you're about to have a heart attack.)

@Kho

That's the whole idea.

They're French. They can't handle sounding the letter h.

(I might have also heard an old old old English pronunciation that went 'ki-NEET,' but I can't remember where.)

[Cyclone]

I've heard it said that in old English there was no silent k. Knight was literally kuh-night, knife was kuh-nife, knee was kuh-nee...

Just imagine not being able to discern whether the local witch doctor says you have kidney failure or knee failure.

...why is the silent 'k' a thing again? We should start a petition to be rid of it once and for all.

[Muttonhawk]

@Cyclone Noah Webster tried to fix English, believe me. He just made it worse.

[Cyclone]

@Cyclone Noah Webster tried to fix English, believe me. He just made it worse.

@Muttonhawk

Oh, you thought I wanted to remove the 'k' and 'fix' English?

Far from it, I wanted to establish some draconian agency that would send armed men out to beat anybody that didn't pronounce the k. Or anybody that Englishes wrong in other ways. We'll bring back the kuh-nights of old!

It's all in the name of making the Anglosphere great again.