How do you pronounce "Terragen"?

Started by Crystek, February 28, 2008, 05:58:49 PM

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Crystek

Hard G or soft? Which syllable is stressed?

JimB

Everyone I know uses a soft G, as in "Terrain" "Generator"?
Some bits and bobs
The Galileo Fallacy, 'Argumentum ad Galileus':
"They laughed at Galileo. They're laughing at me. Therefore I am the next Galileo."

Nope. Galileo was right for the simpler reason that he was right.

Cyber-Angel

Terra is a word (n.) of Danish origin absorbed into Latin and into modern use, meaning Earth the Gen part of Terragen as been pointed out mean Generator which as stated has a hard "G" so Terragen therefore is technically a compound contraction literally meaning Earth Generator.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel 

dandelO

I believe the ancient Romans pronounced it ''Terranica-Generatus'', with a soft G, whereas, the ancient Egyptians had an entirely different approach, ''''

Lots can be lost in translation over the centuries though, I tend to call it Terragen(soft G), just like my ol' Grand-Pappy taught me all those years ago, he faught in the war for the liberation of the 'Ultra' and 'Extra blended detail',no-one would know better than my ol' Grand-Pappy! ;)

nvseal

The pronunciation can be represented by this formula: p(w) = (t+e+r+r+a+g+e+n) * :o 2 Where  P is the pronunciation, w is an irrelevant variable, and :o is a constant.   
;D I could be wrong about that.

rcallicotte

LOL

By the way, soft 'G' is like Gato and hard 'G' is like Jiminy.
So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

sonshine777

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Quote from: calico on February 28, 2008, 10:51:04 PM
LOL

By the way, soft 'G' is like Gato and hard 'G' is like Jiminy.

It's the other way around "Gato" is hard  and J(G)immy is soft
Terragen is a soft "G".

Soft "G" examples

http://www.resourceroom.net/readspell/wordlists/consonants/gegigy.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_G

Hard "G" examples

http://www.abcteach.com/free/members/15041.pdf


JimB

Quote from: dandelO on February 28, 2008, 06:36:53 PM
I believe the ancient Romans pronounced it ''Terranica-Generatus'', with a soft G,
Oh no, beg to differ. They'd have pronounced it with a hard G, as in Greek. They didn't pronounce Caesar as "See-sar", but "Kay-sar".
Some bits and bobs
The Galileo Fallacy, 'Argumentum ad Galileus':
"They laughed at Galileo. They're laughing at me. Therefore I am the next Galileo."

Nope. Galileo was right for the simpler reason that he was right.

Crystek

Wow, I never knew this was so deeply rooted in ancient history!

rcallicotte

My mistake.  That's a point of confusion for me.  Hard G should be like January.  Or so it is in my dictionary.   ;D
So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

Cyber-Angel

Is it not fun debating the semantics of comparative Etymology?  ;D

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel 

monks

hehe- it doesn't really matter how you pronounce it just as long as you are sipping a cocktail in one of the many bars in the galaxy at the time.

monks

JimB

Quote from: superpigeon on February 29, 2008, 08:10:43 AM
Wow, I never knew this was so deeply rooted in ancient history!
Absolutely. Version 0.iv was a flat planet and camera movement over water was restricted to within sight of a coastline (the trick was to keep water at a very low level). Matt then realised things weren't quite what they seemed. Now we have spheres.
Some bits and bobs
The Galileo Fallacy, 'Argumentum ad Galileus':
"They laughed at Galileo. They're laughing at me. Therefore I am the next Galileo."

Nope. Galileo was right for the simpler reason that he was right.

jo

Quote from: dandelO on February 28, 2008, 06:36:53 PM
I believe the ancient Romans pronounced it ''Terranica-Generatus'',

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.

Regards,

Jo

dandelO

 :D :D :D

QuoteThey didn't pronounce Caesar as "See-sar", but "Kay-sar".
I don't believe that there is a 'G' in Caesar at all. Terrasen/Terraken, is that a hard or soft 'S' and 'K' ? ;)

QuoteAbsolutely. Version 0.iv was a flat planet and camera movement over water was restricted to within sight of a coastline (the trick was to keep water at a very low level). Matt then realised things weren't quite what they seemed. Now we have spheres.
Was that when Matt sailed around the World and 'discovered' the West Indies? Yes, a drastic overhaul was definately required at that point, I'd probably still never have noticed the 'Edge of the World syndrome' discrepency in Terra'sz'en renders to this day, had it not been for that!
Wouldn't you know it, the World was round all along!

:D :D :D