Pronunciation of &quot;Cythera&quot;

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Pronunciation of "Cythera" and other unclear Cythera-related issues

#1 Sprong

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 04:55 AM

This has always bugged me. Because of the flexibility of the letters 'C' and 'Y', there are four feasible ways to pronounce Cythera: Sih-thera, Sigh-thera, Kih-thera or Kye-thera. My instinct, when I first saw the name, was the second one, as I think it sounds nicest

But there is a book in Land King Hall, or maybe Pnyx, called "the history of Kythera", which talks about Cythera's history in the game. So maybe that's a hint at the pronunciation that Glenn had in mind. I still like mine better

Another thing: I've always wondered, a) whether there is a way to get a 'Karma Gauge' of sorts to see how naughty you've been, and

what impact it actually has in the game. I try to avoid 'soul-staining' acts, and of course there's the move-then-take trick, but how much difference would stealing a key or two make?

EDIT: Oh. That

was actually supposed to be a 'b' with a bracket after it. Damn emoticons.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 07:52 AM

I go with the 'K' sound. "kith ur uh" -With the 'th' sound being the one that vibrates.

I also pronounce celtic "kel tik" because in LoTR that's how all the elvish 'C's are pronounced.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 01:05 PM

From what I recall from Greek class, it'd actually be more like ku-thay-ra (I'm booted into Windows at the moment, don't remember how to do accented e's). Ku-th{accented-e}-ra.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 03:58 PM

Dictionaries say sith-ER-a.

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 05:43 PM

Buzzzzy, on Dec 1 2006, 09:58 AM, said:

Dictionaries say sith-ER-a.

Never trust American dictionaries.

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 07:40 AM

cache22, on Nov 30 2006, 04:43 PM, said:

Never trust American dictionaries.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate english dictionary!

I do not like using it though, it is hard to find definitions between all the etymology.

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 03:13 PM

I've always pronounce it "Sih-thera" personally, although I'm willing to bet that cache is probably correct in this case.

By the way, Jehezekel, I too pronounce celtic "kel tik," although not for the same reason as you do.

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 04:23 PM

I always think of it as option number two, but various linguists have proven me wrong multiple times in the past. Still, old habits are hard to break.

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#9 cache22

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 07:40 PM

Selax, on Dec 2 2006, 09:13 AM, said:

I've always pronounce it "Sih-thera" personally, although I'm willing to bet that cache is probably correct in this case.

Oh, I never said I pronounce it that way. I'm another one for option 2.

Selax, on Dec 2 2006, 09:13 AM, said:

By the way, Jehezekel, I too pronounce celtic "kel tik," although not for the same reason as you do.

"Keltik" is correct.

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 08:10 PM

*Ahem*

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 08:16 PM

I believe it was originally something a long the lines of what cache22 said originally, but it got distorted, spelled differently, etc., until it really has no pronounciation.

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Posted 01 December 2006 - 09:02 PM

cache22, on Dec 1 2006, 06:40 PM, said:

Oh, I never said I pronounce it that way. I'm another one for option 2.

I meant that I thought that you were probably correct with the Greek pronunciation and that is was probably the correct one.

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 11:47 AM

My name is starts with Ci, so I am partial to to "Y", functioning as an "I" sound. s-I-th-r-uh, personally. The Ci combination makes the sound of "S" in english, but I have never seen "CY" before, so my judgment is the S sound.

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Posted 05 December 2006 - 05:05 PM

Cythera is greek, and was originally translated into roman letters (english) as Kythehra or something.

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Posted 07 December 2006 - 11:22 AM

what about the pronunciation of Alaric? is it Uh-Lair-ik, A-la-rick, and he says the cythrans were origionally from "your world"(our world), he lists an island in his opening speech.

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Posted 07 December 2006 - 10:53 PM

I reckon it's pronounced a-LAR-ick. I dunno why, but there you have it.

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Posted 08 December 2006 - 09:04 AM

I always pronounced it "A-la-ric," for no particular reason @_@

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Posted 08 December 2006 - 09:51 PM

It was round about that time when my sister and I discovered Catamarica was actually Catamarca.

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Posted 08 December 2006 - 11:00 PM

Oh my turtle, my brother and I did that too! We also pronounced Cademia weird (I can't remember how, but my friend pronounces it "Camedia"), and we pronounced Pnyx "pen-ix." Actually I still do that last one @_@

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Posted 09 December 2006 - 12:33 AM

I still call it Catamarica. I pronounce Kosha CO-sha, with a long 'O'.

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Posted 09 December 2006 - 04:19 AM

BreadWorldMercy453, on Dec 9 2006, 03:04 AM, said:

I always pronounced it "A-la-ric," for no particular reason @_@

I'm with you on that one. With a short 'A', as in "At".

I kinda swap between saying "KO-sha (as in cough) and KOH-sha (as in, well, Kosher). I never had any problems with Cademia or Catamarca, but Pnyx still baffles me. Should it be "nix", with a silent P?

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Posted 09 December 2006 - 05:21 AM

I pronounce it 'Pinks', but looking at it, I think it should really be pronounced pi-NIX, with the emphasis on the last syllable. How I got pinks out of that...

BreadWorldMercy453, on Dec 9 2006, 05:00 PM, said:

We also pronounced Cademia weird (I can't remember how, but my friend pronounces it "Camedia")

I used to pronounce it 'Cadmia', like the paint colour. You know, cadmium yellow?

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Posted 09 December 2006 - 11:20 AM

p'nix, like it's french or something

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Posted 09 December 2006 - 02:11 PM

Right now, I pronounce Odemia "oh-deh-my-uh" (for simplicity) or "oh-deh-mee-ah" (because that's what it looks like to me); Catamarca "cah-tah-mahr-'kah"; Cademia "kay-deh-my-uh" or "kah-de-mee-ah"; Kosha "koh-shah"; Pnyx "pen-ix" or just "nix." Alaric is "ah-lah-rihk", but I used to pronounce it "are-lack" for some reason @_@

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