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Author Topic: Names - Would you have picked differently?  (Read 9820 times)

Andreus Ixiris

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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #60 on: 11 Oct 2011, 21:40 »
Most common mispronounciation is Ihks-ih-rihs.
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #61 on: 11 Oct 2011, 22:08 »
Quote from: Andreus Ixiris on 11 Oct 2011, 21:40
Most common mispronounciation is Ihks-ih-rihs.
Icks-air-iss. :P
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #62 on: 12 Oct 2011, 08:36 »
Quote from: Andreus Ixiris on 11 Oct 2011, 21:07
I might have picked a surname that was slightly easier to pronounce.

IHKS-eye-rihs. Easy if I've told you how, but isn't precisely the easiest to work out for the first time.

I've been butchering it into ir-icks-iss for the longest time.

You know how the brain can read a word just by seeing the first and last letters and the jumble in between? yeah, so while reading quickly I jumbled the 'r' and 'x' and then it just kinda stuck in my mind. Only in the last couple months did I realize I was wrong, but irixis rolls off the mental tongue easier.
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #63 on: 12 Oct 2011, 09:16 »
I've just been ignoring the second 'i' entirely and thinking 'Irxis' (errcksiss).
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Andreus Ixiris

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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #64 on: 12 Oct 2011, 14:03 »
YOU ARE ALL TERRIBLE PEOPLE. :evil:
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Saxon Hawke

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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #65 on: 12 Oct 2011, 15:35 »
I think I was closer than most. I thought it was icks-ear-iss.
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #66 on: 12 Oct 2011, 15:43 »
Ick-zi-riss. :D
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #67 on: 12 Oct 2011, 17:44 »
Syyl and Yaan are fairly frequent names I use, though they were "born" in fantasy RP.

If I use their personae in a setting where their names aren't totally appropriate, I do as I have in EVE and operate from the understanding that these names are handles.
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Andreus Ixiris

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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #68 on: 12 Oct 2011, 19:58 »
Quote from: Z.Sinraali on 12 Oct 2011, 15:43
Ick-zi-riss. :D

This pronounciation is acceptable.
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #69 on: 13 Oct 2011, 12:38 »
Wait...its not eye-xir-is?
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #70 on: 13 Oct 2011, 16:48 »
It's not Eye-xey-reys?

Joking aside I've pronounced it Ick-si-ris
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Andreus Ixiris

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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #71 on: 13 Oct 2011, 17:44 »
Quote from: Jekaterine on 13 Oct 2011, 16:48
It's not Eye-xey-reys?

Joking aside I've pronounced it Ick-si-ris

That's pretty much the same as mine, yeah.
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #72 on: 14 Oct 2011, 03:14 »
Well now im confused. "i" can sound 29239083897463 different ways...
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #73 on: 18 Oct 2011, 16:02 »
I intended my name to be pronounced Cow-lee-ford

Yet somehow all that comes to mind is a certain vegetable served with cheese
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Re: Names - Would you have picked differently?
« Reply #74 on: 18 Oct 2011, 16:26 »
Quote from: Robert Kauliford on 18 Oct 2011, 16:02
I intended my name to be pronounced Cow-lee-ford

Yet somehow all that comes to mind is a certain vegetable served with cheese

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