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Title: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: MDB on December 07, 2022, 07:48:47 AM
Hi! I'm making a rather ambitious video about Terragen Classic, and Matt will hate me for it probably... ;D
It will be many 4k animatons with voiceover...
I want to make sure I pronounce certain words correctly, since I'm Dutch.

I think it's Terra "chen" and not "Ken".
And I think it's "Terrah" and not "Terruh"... Correct?

And I want to name the creator Matt Fairclough before I mention the program. Is it Fair "cloth" or "clow" or "clo"  ;D

I'll also be mentioning Sean O'Malley. NOT the martial arts figther, but the creator of the SO plugins and Campath back in the day.

Thanks for the help!  ;D
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: Matt on December 07, 2022, 07:45:38 PM
Hi Michiel,

Don't worry about me, I look forward to seeing it :)

"Gen" is from the English word "generate", so in IPA it's d͡ʒɛn. "Terra" will probably sound right however you want to pronounce it.

I'm from England where most people pronounce "clough" like "kluff". The "u" varies from North to South but that's not important. Since I moved to America I've heard "clo" and "clow/clao", but that's understandable because English has lots of words spelled "-ough" that have different pronunciations and it's hard to predict which one it should be if you don't know the word. English is messed up!

These are both pretty close: https://www.howtopronounce.com/clough and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:En-us-clough.oga except the "ou" doesn't sound quite right to me because from I'm from the North of England.
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: Hannes on December 08, 2022, 03:20:44 AM
Now, that's interesting, Matt, since I too thought, the "clough" in your name would be pronounced like "clo". So, actually was it "kluff", when you were in school in England for example?
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: MDB on December 10, 2022, 11:34:24 AM
Quote from: Matt on December 07, 2022, 07:45:38 PMHi Michiel,

Don't worry about me, I look forward to seeing it :)

"Gen" is from the English word "generate", so in IPA it's d͡ʒɛn. "Terra" will probably sound right however you want to pronounce it.

I'm from England where most people pronounce "clough" like "kluff". The "u" varies from North to South but that's not important. Since I moved to America I've heard "clo" and "clow/clao", but that's understandable because English has lots of words spelled "-ough" that have different pronunciations and it's hard to predict which one it should be if you don't know the word. English is messed up!

These are both pretty close: https://www.howtopronounce.com/clough and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:En-us-clough.oga except the "ou" doesn't sound quite right to me because from I'm from the North of England.

Thank you! Now I am sure I'll pronounce it correctly! 😁
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: MDB on January 17, 2023, 10:37:50 AM
OK it's online... Did I pronounce it correctly?...  :-[

https://youtu.be/1w6TCOeNUp4
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: Dune on January 17, 2023, 11:04:39 AM
Very cool!
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: Matt on January 17, 2023, 04:42:21 PM
Wow, this has made my day! Thank you :)  (Yes you pronounced it correctly.)
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: Hannes on January 18, 2023, 02:33:42 AM
This is soooo cool!! You showed the unique look of TG Classic very well! A pleasure to watch. :)
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: WAS on January 18, 2023, 02:13:22 PM
This is a great video! I love it! Never got to really use Terragen Classic, but this gives me nostalgia from TV and film.
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: MDB on January 18, 2023, 04:56:55 PM
Thanks guys :)

I tried to make clear that people should not try TG 0.9 but newer (TG) software instead. Hopefully that worked somehow :)
Title: Re: Help with pronouncing Terragen correctly
Post by: masonspappy on January 18, 2023, 06:37:10 PM
Wow - that brought back some memories!