Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[CuAnnan]

Collowrath

CuAnnan

Deoridhe

My online name, only Wing pronounces it properly; the pronunciation I give is mostly made up and weird, and by and large people call me Deo.

It's a tough one to pronounce, using a strange phonem that's used in Irish once in a blue moon. The only other word I know of that uses it is the Irish for drink (the noun) that being deoch.

Is it that the D is palatalized/iotated? Such as dyoch or Dyo - but the "y" sound is "blended" almost into the D itself?

That sounds about right.

Collowrath

We use a separate letter for the sound - Ď in Slovak and DJ/Đ/Ћ in Serbian. A D always makes the sound before E and I in Slovak as well, by way of iotation.

Yeah, we got the whole "writing" thing in the fourth century, but it didn't really catch on.
And then the whole 800 years of our language being illegal didn't help matters.
The Roman Alphabet was never meant to describe Irish.  

[Calixti]

OMGTORCHWOOD. *DIES*  

[CuAnnan]

Celeblin Galadeneryn

Doesn't Deo's name roughly sound close to "jory?"

See, when I try to write the pronunciation, I get dtjyor id eh and even that's horribly wrong.

Celeblin Galadeneryn

Course, I still say "Ree-gun" in my head when I know very well that's not how you say it. Force of habit.

I used to get flack for that username.
Because people thought it had to do with banning regan  

[Collowrath]

CuAnnan

Celeblin Galadeneryn

Doesn't Deo's name roughly sound close to "jory?"

See, when I try to write the pronunciation, I get dtjyor id eh and even that's horribly wrong.

The IPA guide on omniglot.com has me say it like dyor-i-ye, except that the "dhe/ye" kind of sound would be further back in the throat, away from the teeth and with the tongue raised toward the palate. It's not a sound that can be described in English very well, I don't think.  

[maenad nuri]

I'm not actually certain how nuri is pronounced. Not to mention it appears to be a bird in Malaysia, an arabic men's name (the female would be Nuria), and I got it off of a list claiming it was Hebrew meaning light or fire, and then found it in Arabic meaning Divine Light.

Then I just gave up and accepted it as my name.  

[Collowrath]

maenad nuri

I'm not actually certain how nuri is pronounced. Not to mention it appears to be a bird in Malaysia, an arabic men's name (the female would be Nuria), and I got it off of a list claiming it was Hebrew meaning light or fire, and then found it in Arabic meaning Divine Light.

Then I just gave up and accepted it as my name.

Nur means light in Arabic - I usually see it as a romantic pet-name. For instance, if you called your man "nuri," you'd be saying "my light" as in "the light of my eye" or something similar. biggrin As a name, it's usually something like Nur ad-Din (Light of Religion, or similar).

One of my best friends through middle and high school is Iraqi. She taught me a bit of Arabic - we used to pass each other notes in class in English, written with Arabic letters. xd

It goes without saying, now, that I'm a bit of a language buff. stressed  

[Shearaha]

I stole my online name from my cat ninja It amazes me how many vets and vet techs have trouble pronouncing it gonk Of course the way I spelled it could have something to do with it. She-r-a, the r has a kind of roll to it the last h is silent. Our friends have trouble saying her name, usually just ending up with "pretty kitty"  

[Deoridhe]

CuAnnan

Celeblin Galadeneryn

Doesn't Deo's name roughly sound close to "jory?"

See, when I try to write the pronunciation, I get dtjyor id eh and even that's horribly wrong.

That was the pronunciation given in the Irish dictionary I got the name from. I tend to describe how I pronounce it as dthey-or-ee with the dth being the sound found in Icelandic (see: Odhinn), but I'll freely own I made that pronunciation up. It's also slightly mispelled from the original dictionary of doom where it was spelt deoiridhe and sometimes de oiridhe. To give a hint at how old I am, at the time my accounts were on Unix boxes (yes, this name was specifically for online and always was; it's move offline is accidental) and you had only 8 letters - so I dropped one of the /i/s.  

[Taliah]

I'll just say I've been pronouncing Deo's name wrong, and leave it at that.

Mine is an alteration of my actual name. Tia, but with the added /a/s /l/s and the /h/. But my first name I had on Gaia was Tojah. I'm really glad I changed it, because a few people thought it looked like "toejam". stare  

[TeaDidikai]

Deoridhe

CuAnnan

Celeblin Galadeneryn

Doesn't Deo's name roughly sound close to "jory?"

See, when I try to write the pronunciation, I get dtjyor id eh and even that's horribly wrong.

That was the pronunciation given in the Irish dictionary I got the name from. I tend to describe how I pronounce it as dthey-or-ee with the dth being the sound found in Icelandic (see: Odhinn), but I'll freely own I made that pronunciation up. It's also slightly mispelled from the original dictionary of doom where it was spelt deoiridhe and sometimes de oiridhe. To give a hint at how old I am, at the time my accounts were on Unix boxes (yes, this name was specifically for online and always was; it's move offline is accidental) and you had only 8 letters - so I dropped one of the /i/s.

Pish. talk2hand You can't even pronounce a simple word like Tea.  

[Deoridhe]

TeaDidikai

Pish. talk2hand You can't even pronounce a simple word like Tea.

*grins*

Can so. Both versions. XD  

[TeaDidikai]

Deoridhe

*grins*

Can so. Both versions. XD

razz

Do I seem Spanish to you?!  

[TeaDidikai]

It's official. SyFy channel sucks.

I love the SciFi channel, wherever that may lurk in the ether.  

[Collowrath]

TeaDidikai

It's official. SyFy channel sucks.

I love the SciFi channel, wherever that may lurk in the ether.

Without Galactica, Stargate, and Babylon 5 I have no reason to watch it any more.

Syfy resembles SciFi very little. Ugh.