How is "R'lyeh" pronounced?

[LDiCesare]

I'm surprised people put a vowel in place of the '. I pronounce it "Rlee -yeah", or sometimes "R(stop)lee-yeah"

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Lingchih

Well. You have to have a tentacle mouth to pronounce it correctly, so it's kind of a moot point.

Yeah, The "'" is sound made by your tentacles. So it can be a bit hard to pronounce by humans. Having a non euclidean anatomy also helps.

[Viajero]

Originally Posted by Lingchih

Well. You have to have a tentacle in your mouth to pronounce it correctly, so it's kind of a moot point.

There. Fixed it for you.

[Sleet]

I think you would have to be insane to pronounce properly and to understand the awesomeness once you can.

[Chacal]

Well I will try to ask a Shoggoth friend of me for prounonciation....


...Well Shoggoths are maybe a bad idea as they are not that great in prounoucation, nor they are kind teachers (I think that eating bad prounoncing students is a bit harsh...)

[Squirrelloid]

I don't believe you. Rl is not a pronounceable starting consonantal sound. You have to insert a vowel to say it. (There's a reason I prefer a schwa - yay, i remembered the name)

[LDiCesare]

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

I don't believe you. Rl is not a pronounceable starting consonantal sound. You have to insert a vowel to say it. (There's a reason I prefer a schwa - yay, i remembered the name)

Of course it is. R and L are both voiced consonents. Japanese doesn't distinguish them either. In French slang, "reluquer" can be pronounced rluquer for instance, and would be spelled r'luquer to show the schwa is not pronounced. Now my R is a French R, it's "harder" than the English version, so that may explain why I don't need a vowel and you do: The same letter doesn't mean the same sound.

[RadicalTurnip]

I always said it "Rye Leth"
Rye like the bread
"Leth" rhymes with "Meth"

Then i saw that there actually wasn't a "T" and got sad, but I've grown so used to it, it's hard to kick.

[rdonj]

Really? I could have sworn R'lyeh was pronounced "All your mind are belong to Cthulhu. You are on the way to lobotomization. There is no chance to escape, make your time."

But maybe that is just me.

[chrispedersen]

ril yeh'

although I'm sympathetic to

Ar' lyeh