How do you pronounce "Terragen"?

[Crystek]

Hard G or soft? Which syllable is stressed?

[JimB]

Everyone I know uses a soft G, as in "Terrain" "Generator"?

[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) * ² Where  P is the pronunciation, w is an irrelevant variable, and is a constant.   
I could be wrong about that.

[rcallicotte]

LOL

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

[sonshine777]

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]

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".

[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.   

[Cyber-Angel]

Is it not fun debating the semantics of comparative Etymology? 

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]

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.

[jo]

I believe the ancient Romans pronounced it ''Terranica-Generatus'',

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.

Regards,

Jo

[dandelO]

 

They 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' ?

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.

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!