Liaden Pronunciation Poll

[rolanni]

So, I'm back on the couch today because I overstrained the ankle yesterday (which no one could have predicted, right?), typing on The Leewit, with Mozart in his window hammock, keeping a Very Sharp Eye Out for pirates, UPS trucks, Quiet and/or Louder, and That Uppity Squirrel. In between naps.

Anyway, we haven't forgotten the Liaden Pronunciation Guide project, but we need some help in deciding on format.

This? Is your cue.

[Poll #1816147]

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[od-mind.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I want to know how the authors pronounce some things. If there's a... disagreement... between how the authors intended a word to be pronounced, and what I think the spelling implies, it jars me out of my immersion in the story.

(I have finally come to terms with the idea that Celeborn and Cirdan are pronounced with a K sound at the front. It took a while.)

In particular, it always jars me if a non-English language is written in a way that expects me to use English vowels, because NO OTHER LANGUAGE ON EARTH assigns those sounds to those letters. English is the victim of a Cosmic Joke, in which the last sound shift happened immediately *after* the spelling was finalized.

The only example in Liaden (rhymes with "be trodden") that really jarred me was the name Tiazin, which from its morphing into Tayzin suggests that the authors pronounce the original with an English "long a" (which would be spelt 'ei' in Latin). My head refuses; Tiazin rhymes with "rosin" in there.