Official Battletech Pronunciation Thread

[SteelRaven]

In the further spirit of pronouncing gif "zhyfe", I propose calling Lyran "loo-ree" like some messed up Welsh word. 

.... this is a meme and I love it!

[Doc Swift]

Davion – DAY-vee-un

It--it--it's so beautiful! 

[Sartris]

superior education system in glorious free worlds league teaches that the lyrans pronounce their own name as Luh!-Run! and then clap their hands wildly as they eat money.

[Jal Phoenix]

Now I need someone  to finally clear up a two decade old mystery from a MWDA dossier:

Pronounce and explain Fetanet Eryaman.

[rebs]

N'Buta – nuh-BOO-tuh

Thank you, Ray.

[Mendrugo]

Now I need someone  to finally clear up a two decade old mystery from a MWDA dossier:

Pronounce and explain Fetanet Eryaman.

It’s Turkish/Arabic.

What is Fetanet? The word fetanet, which comes to the fore both in terms of religion and in general, means “intelligent mind”, “high intelligence or genius”, “Prophet logic”. The word fetanet, which is frequently used in a sentence, is a word of Arabic origin. It has passed from Arabic to our beautiful Turkish. It is used in different places suitable for the purpose. It can be said both in religious terms and in everyday life in general terms.

Eryaman relates to the sun.

[rebs]

Grey Noton

Is it pronounced NO-tahn
or Nah-tahn?

[00Dawg]

Grey Noton

Is it pronounced NO-tahn
or Nah-tahn?

Shake and bake, Ricky Bobby!

Seriously, though, I’ve always gone with the former.

[rebs]

Shake and bake, Ricky Bobby!

Seriously, though, I’ve always gone with the former.

LOL!  "I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew!"

Thanks, I go with the top one as well.

[Doc Swift]

It's an alternate spelling of Naughton, so I think it's pronounced the same way.

[rebs]

Of course.  That's sound.

[The Eagle]

Because my purple birds aren't getting a lot of mentions:

Oriente -- do you pronounce the "e" on the end?  I don't, there's no accent.
Atreus -- I say AT-tree-us.  I've also heard uh-TRAY-us.
Marik -- MAR-ik or MARE-ik?  The latter for me.

[Middcore]

Because my purple birds aren't getting a lot of mentions:

Oriente -- do you pronounce the "e" on the end?  I don't, there's no accent.
Atreus -- I say AT-tree-us.  I've also heard uh-TRAY-us.
Marik -- MAR-ik or MARE-ik?  The latter for me.

I pronounce it as though there's no E but I've never been sure

Uh-TRAY-us

MARE-ik (supported I think by their foes referring to them as "Marys" in some fiction), although maybe the ending was supposed to be "eek"?

[Calfor]

I pronounce Oriente with the e, similar to East in Spanish.

Atreus is Greek, so I pronounce it Ah-true-i.

[rebs]

My Oxford-trained mythology professor pronounced it A - tree-us.  With a long A

[jasonf]

Day-vee-un is how I pronounced it when I was first introduced to the IP as a youth but then I decided that was wrong and trained myself to say Dah-vee-un instead. 

I've been moving into this camp, too. However, saying House DAH-vee-un seems fine, but DAY-vee-un Guards still sounds more natural than DAH-vee-un Guards for some reason... 

I pronounce Oriente with the e, similar to East in Spanish.

This is how I've always pronounced it, too.

My Oxford-trained mythology professor pronounced it A - tree-us.  With a long A

And this is how I've always pronounced Atreus, too.
Though it looks like AY-troos is also correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atreus#:~:text=In%20Greek%20mythology%2C%20Atreus%20(%2F,known%20as%20Atreidai%20or%20Atreidae.

 

[Adrian Gideon]

Not that it matters as it isn’t the official pronunciation, but I say Davion with an ă like apple or dad, not broad like ɑː in father.

[Doc Swift]

Because my purple birds aren't getting a lot of mentions:

Oriente -- do you pronounce the "e" on the end?  I don't, there's no accent.
Atreus -- I say AT-tree-us.  I've also heard uh-TRAY-us.
Marik -- MAR-ik or MARE-ik?  The latter for me.

I pronounce the trailing e, though when I was in high school, I left it off but accented the last syllable. Otherwise, it's just Orient, and I can't figure why they'd name their world "East".
I use the American pronunciation: ay·tree·uhss
The latter. I'd been playing for many years before I first heard it pronounced MAR-ik.

[Arkansas Warrior]

I don’t know what the trailing e is for in Oriente if not to make a sound, so I pronounce it; “Orient-E”  (or “Orien-tea” if you prefer).  Then again, I speak English and fully realize how many silent letters we have.  But if it was pronounced “Orient”, then they should spell it “Orient”.   


Ay-tree-us.  But I have no idea if that’s right.  Now that I’m thinking about it, I suppose “At-ree-us” or “At-tree-us” would be just as valid.


Mare-ick.  Because that’s what it looks like to me.  The above-mentioned us of “Marys” for Marik-loyal forces seems to play into that as well.

[MarauderD]

I pronounce the trailing e, though when I was in high school, I left it off but accented the last syllable. Otherwise, it's just Orient, and I can't figure why they'd name their world "East".
I use the American pronunciation: ay·tree·uhss
The latter. I'd been playing for many years before I first heard it pronounced MAR-ik.

I think the American West version of English definitely has it's own patterns and accents, but I've always pronounced:

Orient.  No E, accent on the ENT instead of the Or
Ay Tree us
Mar-ik  Sounds like Far-ick. But Mar-ick

[Colt Ward]

Grey Noton

Is it pronounced NO-tahn
or Nah-tahn?

Later is a more Celtic pronounciation, wife found out her surname traced to Naughton (phonetically the same as last) and we wandered through that area.  And I Swift beat me to it- for those interested it is prominent in the center western part of Ireland.

[carlisimo]

Because my purple birds aren't getting a lot of mentions:

Oriente -- do you pronounce the "e" on the end?  I don't, there's no accent.
Atreus -- I say AT-tree-us.  I've also heard uh-TRAY-us.
Marik -- MAR-ik or MARE-ik?  The latter for me.

The accent thing only applies to French.  Spanish and Italian both spell it this way (no accent marks) and pronounce the final e.  I say it as if it were Spanish: or-YEN-teh
I've heard people who know a lot of Greek mythology say A-tree-us.

[Adrian Gideon]

or-YEN-teh

That's very close to the official pronunciation, but I may snag this as this phoneticization probably gets the desired result easier. (But there's the added note to optionally roll the r.)

[Jal Phoenix]

I can't think of any word beginning with MAR- that is pronounced "Mare", except for mare itself and proper names like Mary. There's words like march and margarita, then there's others like marry and marinate, but I don't know any other "mare" words to use as precedents. I go with MAHR-ik as in march, rather than MAR-ik as in marry.

[Doc Swift]

That's very close to the official pronunciation, but I may snag this as this phoneticization probably gets the desired result easier. (But there's the added note to optionally roll the r.)

Or-e-EN'-tay for me.

[Doc Swift]

I can't think of any word beginning with MAR- that is pronounced "Mare", except for mare itself and proper names like Mary. There's words like march and margarita, then there's others like marry and marinate, but I don't know any other "mare" words to use as precedents. I go with MAHR-ik as in march, rather than MAR-ik as in marry.

Off the top of my head:

Maritime
Marathon
Mariner
Marigold
Marital
Marijuana
Mariposa

[CVB]

I go with MAHR-ik as in march, rather than MAR-ik as in marry.

That seems closest the pronunciation in any of the central or southeastern European languages spoken in the area where the family originated.

[rebs]

This thread is at once awesome and unintentionally hilarious. 

Now, Republic Latin time...

Fides Defenders ----> FY-dez?
Principes Guards ----> Prihn-seh-pes?

[Arkansas Warrior]

On a tangent, I wonder how far Republic Latin is from Marian Latin.

[Doc Swift]

How did I quote myself? Hmm. Getting old, I guess.

Fides: Long I, long E. Some might go with long E, long E, though, or even long E, short i (fee-diss).

Principes: like principle, but with a long E at the end. prints-ih-pees