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Offline wyvern83

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2010, 11:54:58 pm »
nine-z l

As in cup or up.

That does sound different; interesting too. Your example words were helpful.

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2010, 12:49:59 am »
I always think of arcen as Arsen.. which gives me several giggles none of which are rated teen ;p Mainly because of the German meaning of Arsen -> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsen

Neinzul .. well i only call it n'zul , as that seems to be a legitimate way to shorten the nein in this case ;p And it reminds me of WoW..... which i swore never again to touch, ever.!

As for Zenith

Theres in german Zenit + Remnant = Zenit Remnant !

Also think x4000 needs to cut down on the LSD when naming stuff though, as all these names, including AI War, are completely incompatible with a casual talk between 2 people ! ;P

Mainly because of AI which sounds like EI .. Ei-Waghhh , sounds like orkish! (the Wh40k kind)
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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2010, 12:55:28 am »
"Zenith Remnant" at least is actually real words.  AND pronounced in one of the music files "We've discovered the Zenith Remnant."

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2010, 08:25:25 am »
Ya, the fact that it's in the soundtrack helps a lot.

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2010, 09:22:18 am »
I've been pronouncing it "Nine'zle" like "fizzle" but with a "Nein" instead of a "fiz"!

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2010, 10:23:17 am »
I've been pronouncing it "Nine'zle" like "fizzle" but with a "Nein" instead of a "fiz"!

Me too, more or less. Out for now. ;)
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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #21 on: September 07, 2010, 05:39:44 pm »
I was pronouncing it like nine-zool, but nine-zle (like puzzle) seems to flow better - I think I prefer that.

As for Arcen - I've always assumed it was pronounced ark-en.

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #22 on: September 07, 2010, 06:27:43 pm »
I've always used "arsen" for pronunciation. I find it quite hilarious that we are split on how to pronounce the name of this company, not even taking into account all the other uncertainties.

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #23 on: September 07, 2010, 06:52:42 pm »
I thought it was pronounced after the logo, which features an arc.

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #24 on: September 07, 2010, 07:28:42 pm »
I thought it was pronounced after the logo, which features an arc.

Arcin'?

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #25 on: September 07, 2010, 08:27:21 pm »
well, note that Celtic is not pronounced sel'tik...it's possible.

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #27 on: September 08, 2010, 05:54:47 am »
I had a fun idea:
http://www.ivona.com/

Try typing in all the names, do mind that single word is accented differently than in a sentence so it may sound vastly different. Also, while I prefer the british voices pronunciation, the differences between british and american ones are hilarious at times. :D

Also, romanian and polish voices should bring you some laughs when reading stuff from other languages :D

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2010, 09:33:28 am »
This should illuminate matters: http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,2779.0.html.

Ah, shame on me for not searching.

Well...I guess I could start saying "ar-ken" instead of "arson". But I'm still pronouncing "frigate" as "cruiser" until I hear some good arguments against.

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Re: Whats the correct pronunciation of "Neinzul"?
« Reply #29 on: September 09, 2010, 02:44:25 am »
I had a fun idea:
http://www.ivona.com/

Try typing in all the names, do mind that single word is accented differently than in a sentence so it may sound vastly different. Also, while I prefer the british voices pronunciation, the differences between british and american ones are hilarious at times. :D

Also, romanian and polish voices should bring you some laughs when reading stuff from other languages :D

Thats actually hilarious AND useful, never knew of that site, but the standard voice is exceptional good, nearly 90% human like.

In fact, that might be the best text-to-speech i have ever seen till now!
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