How do you pronounce them?

[Teleolurian]

I read the Posts that led to the demise of the cthulu newsgroup on usenet- the pronunciation of R'lyeh. Among those that I saw, my favorite was:

urrll-yeh

where the urrll... part sort of sounds like a choking squid. It's fun to say, and makes people think you're suffering from indigestion when you bring it up in polite conversation.

[Raen]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
Just on a side note for those who are curious, daoine is the plural for duine in Modern Irish. (And, yeah, I know there's more than one flavour of Gaelic. This is just the only one I can speak upon with any education.) It means, quite simply, "people".

Oh, and it should indeed be pronounced "DEE-nah" if using Modern Irish.

Psitticine, I no longer have my old language books -- what's the possessive (genitive) plural of duine and how is it pronounced?

[Psitticine]

It's the same as the nominative plural: daoine.

[Jasper]

Originally posted by Keir Maxwell:
Although I am of primarily Celtic origin I have a caution about the Celtic thing as its a bit of fashion to applaud the Celtic achievements and accredit them with the achievements of others. According to many Celt enthusiastic authors the Celts were the inspiration for everybody at the time. However the Celts were a peripheral group to the then center of civilisation (the near east/eastern mediterrainen) so this is unlikely.

As I understand recent archaeological findings have been expanding the role and range of the Celts in history. For example their role in the production and trade of salt, where they developed techniques that were copied by the Romans, who were quite into salt. At least that's what I gleaned from "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky -- an absolutely fascinating read.

The Celts main weakness seems to have been that they weren't really very good at warfare, and simply got conquered and absorbed by the Romans and Nomadic migrants.

[PDF]

Originally posted by PhilD:

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
Doesn't anybody else speak any French here? Look at all the people who are massacring Marignon.

I mean, how do you pronounce Champagne.

I'm French, and would pronounce it Mar-ee-NYON
(with a nasal ON in the end, but there's no English word that has this sound AFAIK)

Antway - the Marignon nation looks rather Spanish to me (with the Spanish Inquisition and all). Hey, in DomI Marignon was located in Catalogne when using the "Europa" map, IIRC.

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Hey Phil, Marignon isn't really pronounced "Marinion", you forgot our (I'm French too) nasal "gn".
In fact only Frenchmen can pronounce it
Arco definitely is "arkoskefalè", R'lyeh should NOT EVER be pronounced .
I suppose the Norse nations should be pronounced as in German ;
Vanheim => Fan-haïm ?
Jotunheim => Iotoun-haïm ?
Some norsemen here ?

[Pocus]

I would say also that Marignon is a twist on Marignan, so is a reference to the France of Henry IV. But thats perhaps my imagination.


Pocus, French too.